When you click the link in the navigation bar that leads to the Military screen, this is what you will see:





This section is split in three - soldier draft, scientist draft and advanced military training. Here's a short explanation of the different units:

Soldier: Drafted from population - you won't lose population from drafting, but you can never draft more than 10% of your population into soldiers.
Scientist: A unit dedicated to researching new technology for your planet. They are also drafted from your population in the same manner as your soldiers.
Riflemen: An advanced military unit, defense only. This unit has 3 defense points, and is basically an upgraded soldier. Upgrades to Lasermen, same type of unit, 4 defense points.
Infantrymen: An advanced military unit, offense only. This unit has 4 offense points, and is basically an upgraded soldier. Upgrades to Dragoons, same type of unit, 5 offense points.
AAV: Armored Assault Vehicles, this unit is an expensive soldier upgrade with 8 defense points and 8 offense points. No upgrade available.
Starfighters: Researched unit, expensive, not drafted from population. This unit has 12 offense points and 3 defense points, making it primarily an offensive unit.
Guerillas: Cheap offensive unit, 2 offense points.

All military requires housing - barracks at first, and later on Stardocks (research topic). Riflemen/Infantrymen and their upgrades take 1 housing each, AAV's and SF's take two. Guerillas don't need military housing.


When starting a new account, you don't need any military right away. As long as you are in newbie, you can't be attacked and you can't attack - so the general rule is, don't build any advanced military until about 20 hours before newbie ends. This, again, is the stack rule - 1 unit takes 18 hours to build etc.

You will need scientists, though, to research some vital technologies. Draft as many scientists as you can, and remember the stack rule ;)

Next topic is research.


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