UEF T2 Heavy Tank
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| Heavy tank. Equipped with reinforced armor and dual cannons. | |||
| Build Costs |  -990 -198  880 |
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| Max Health |  1200 |
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| Speed | 3.3 (Land) | ||
Veterancy  |
 6 ( +2/s) |
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| Intel (Radius) | Vision: 20 |
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Direct Fire - Projectile |
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| DPS | 53 | ||
| Projectile Damage |
35 |
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| Salvo Size Reload time |
2 Projectiles 1.3 seconds |
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| Range | 23 | ||
The UEF T2 Heavy Tank:Pillar is the UEF's primary Tech 2 land unit. Sporting it's dual barreled Gauss Cannon, it is a typical direct fire unit. The Pillar is a very sturdy tank with a decent damage radius. It is usually considered the UEF's workhorse unit.
[edit] Unit details
The Pillar is a heavy and robust unit, perfect for base defense, or base assault. It fires in a semi-high arc and at high speeds, usually hitting its target, while avoiding map irregularities or concrete. Because of its low mobility, it is highly recommended to always move your Pillars in close formation. What you lose from mobility, you gain in concentrated firepower. The Pillar, backed with Parashields, is an especially dangerous formation. The Pillars are strong enough to act as mobile point defense units, yet their low speed and close formation allows the Parashields to perfectly defend them, in one solid wall formation, much like a point defense creep. Any unit coming in range will not only immediately take fire from all pillars in the formation simultaneously, it will also have to break through several close formation shields to inflict any damage at all.
[edit] Pillar vs Mongoose
With the release of Forged Alliance, use of the Pillar has dropped in favor of the Mongoose, the UEF's other tech 2 direct fire land unit. The Pillar is slower and less maneuverable, wields less firepower and a shorter range than the equally priced Mongoose. Because of this it is not as well suited for the guerrilla tasks of mobile warfare, where two armies move back and forth, without a full head-on confrontation. The only thing going for it is its higher Hp: 1200 compared to the Mongoose's 900. Because of this, the only times a skilled player is seen using the Pillar rather than the Mongoose, is once the opponent is in range of the player's base, making retreat impossible, and direct confrontation is inevitable.
[edit] Factional Differences
The Cybrans' Rhino has a higher DPS. However, it is cursed with an extremely low firing arc, making it's weapon hit the ground before it hits its target. Further more, it only has about 750 Hp, almost half that of the Pillar
The Seraphim and Aeon's Tech 2 heavy land units, the Obsidian and the Ilshavoh are higher category units. They cost almost double that of the pillar, but are about twice as effective (double Hp, double DPS), making them similar units, cost wise.
