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1. Horde Quickplay Guide
   
2. Pandemic Quickplay Guide
   
3. Doctrines
   
4. C.E.R.C units
   
5. C.E.R.C vehicles
   
6. C.E.R.C buildings
   
7. Civilians
   
8. Pangu Virus, Chelsey & Hives
   
9. Infected
   
10. Mutations
    
11. Advanced Tactics
    
12. Compound Layout
    
13. Factions

While you do control the zone, capture trucks are not available. As such you start with the max unit cap of 80, and several buildings "unlocked". That means no Ammo tents so I recommend Atlas's as your go to supply hubs. Plan on maxing out the unit cap during the early waves.

1. Begin by using your Engineer to call in a CERC Center.
   This provides access to Engineers and Atlas.
   
2. Build a generator, and call in a couple more Engineers.
   Power for the barracks, lights, and gates.
   
3. Place a barracks, early perimeter fence, and spotlights.
   Try and keep all three Engineers busy. Splitting your fencing build among your engineers can greatly speed up its construction.
   
4. Call Heavy units in to fill the perimeter fences.
   Do not forget to deploy them. Space them so their AoE slightly overlaps.
   
5. Call in the Ammo&Gas Atlas.
   This unit will "run" ammo and gas to any nearby friendlies.
   
6. Profit
   Run a scientist around to DNA drops in between waves.

Tips

• Engineers should sit closest to your fences and turrets so that, when idle, they will repair things.
  
• Assault units can place wire and sandbags outside the perimeter during wave downtime to slow down fast moving infected.
  
• If you struggle with cash, aim to grab the 40% off Engineering Doctine perk. Problem solved.
  
• Turn on unit and vehicle lights.
  
• Mortars can be used to clear hives safe and effectively. Do not eliminate all of them however or strange things will happen. You were warned...

Welcome to the open world/paradise island.
You need to start by selecting somewhere to deploy your small team of 3. I would stay away from noted infected zones, and complex urban areas. In an ideal spot, you will have a good portion of open land for your HQ along with clear lines of sight extending out for your gunmen.


Now the easy part.

You can make this "race" much, much less stressful if you use Slow Time, spacebar by default. It will let you plan out, and erase mistakes, without being overrun in the opening minutes. It can be intense and frustrating when it seems like you cannot even get your base down first. Use it.

1. Repel or land the helicopter and dispatch your team.
   
2. Using the "call-ins" on the far right sight, bring in a Supply Truck and deploy it. Once deployed the zone will be claimed albeit, somewhat limited to infection level.
   
3. Grab your Engineer and have him build the CERC HQ, during which keep the Supply truck building the command, ammo, or hospital tent.
   
4. When done bring in a few more engineers from the HQ, start having them build a generator, spotlights, and fences.
   
5. With power online, bring the barracks in. Dont forget to keep that Supply Truck busy with tents, you should have them all placed about now.
   
6. Once the barracks is done bring in the Heavy units, the bulk of your base defense. With their deployment ability, set up overlapping cones of machine gun coverage along your fences.
   
7. Try and save 5 units in the unit cap for a squad, 4 assault and a radio, to run missions in the helicopter. The assault units need to have their default M16s replaced with SCARs, infantry need to be near the barracks to buy weapons.
   
8. Seat the 4 assaults first, allowing them to take the "sides", and the radio last. You can now effectively attack somewhat safely and call in strikes. Airstrikes require a nearby radio unit, and one flying shotgun in a helo allows just that.

I am hesitant to write a more detailed breakdown and analysis of the doctrines as changes are coming. The separate doctrine trees are going to be combined in upcoming revisions to the game, which I expect will greatly improve the game. It may also greatly change when you get those skills and their strengths.


This doctrine features two units that may change how agressively you can tackle infected zones. An apc, that can be refit with a cannon, and an attack helicopter thats ready to go. You also can call an "AC-130" that auto targets hostiles, be warned, he will also frag friendlies not running fast enough.


The best doctrine overall. A few minor change along with the biggest game changers to be offered, a big fat cash discount and mortars. The discount is 2 points and will now take 40% off everything with a price tag, units and emplacements. The mortar when micro'd can reduce hives to ash, create a no-mans land, choke, or protect an away team. They are incredibly expensive but if the infestation is beyond reproach and you are shooting civies, this is how your team comes home.


The mobile infantry....they have semi-mobile turrets? And mini-guns... which are unfortunately not terribly fast either. This here is the biggest reason I was for a "grand unified doctrine", its a skip 90% of the time but has fun elements.

Assault

Scientist

Radio

Medic

Heavy

Sniper

Spec Ops

Spotlight
The spotlight consumes a small amount of power and provides LOS through the FoW.
These lights are critical to any static line. They allow units to clear infected BEFORE they reach compound defense structures.
The spotlight AoE cannot overlap with other lights.

Assault unit weapons
The M16 has mediocre damage and ROF, greatly limiting this unit out of the gate. Upgrading to the SCAR rifle more than doubles this units fighting effectiveness.

Bridges
It is important to understand that bridges can be demolished via airstrikes so keep a radio unit nearby. This is should be your fallback plan if a secondary base used as a choke becomes overwhelmed.

Firing Cone Gaps
Be mindful of any gaps between heavy deployments. They will not shoot anything outside of their AoE, no matter how close the enemy is.