UEF T1 Light Assault Bot
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| Lightly armored mech. Provides direct-fire support against low-end units. | |||
| Build Costs |  -140 -35  140 |
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| Max Health |  75 |
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| Speed | 4 (Land) | ||
Veterancy  |
 2 ( +1/s) |
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| Intel (Radius) | Vision: 18 |
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Direct Fire - Projectile |
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| DPS | 21 | ||
| Projectile Damage |
7 |
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| Rate of Fire |
3 Projectiles/s |
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| Range | 14 | ||
The UEF T1 Light Assault Bot, nicknamed the Mech Marine, or MM, is a UEF unit.
Description
The Mech Marine is a direct fire unit armed with the light Tom Cat Machinegun, and compared to its counterparts, has higher HP and lower DPS, making it worse for usage in the T1 Gunship. This higher HP is only marginally helpful, as a T1 Point Defense or most ordinances can still kill it in one to three hits. This light assault bot is best in the field, against T1 units. Its agility make it exceptionally good at dodging slower weaponry, as well as for rushing, raiding, and blocking expansion. It, like other Light Assault Bots, can be built quickly and cheaply, making it good for defending against other such rushes. One could use this as the core for their T1 force, as despite its obvious weakness, it still retains the ability to punish most T1 armies through numbers and speed. Lightly armored units are especially vulnerable to the Mech Marine, such as the Aurora. This unit can only target ground units, and due to its short range, while it can hit naval units, it is extremely unlikely to be able to.
This unit is especially useful in early UEF Campaign missions, due to the AI's tendency to keep its ground units spread out and outposts far away and lightly or not at all defended.
It is not recommended to use this unit against defenses or splash, as area of effect attacks and high speed can mow down these units quickly. Due to the nature of the faction and its early units, this unit is generally worse against the Cybran than the other races.
As with all light assault bots, NEVER deploy a Mech Marine against the enemy commander unless you just need that little bit of extra damage to finish it off. With the ability to destroy LABs in a single shot and superior weapons range, all you will do is feed the commander's veterancy, always a bad thing.
Historical Information
The Mech Marine is a humanoid robot resembling the UEF ACU which walks on two legs and appears to have arms. The Mech Marine could be considered a loose successor of Mechanized Infantry, otherwise known as Mobile Infantry. The Mobile Infantry as featured in Starship Troopers were an elite fighting force, consisting of men in power suits- used to take the intelligence and creativity of a man, and give him the powers to face down an army. In other literature the concept has remained much the same, a man within a stronger shell of himself. The advantage of power suits over less sophisticated pieces of equipment such as tanks is that they are much simpler and less thought consuming to use. During and preceding the Infinite War, computing power became powerful enough to allow pure machines to do what once required human soldiers. The humanoid frame has remained the choice of the Mech Marine's structure, due to its flexibility and agility.
