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Resource and Specialty Units
Most players will make early gambles to control the most abundant resources, and with good reason: Without resources, there can be no fleets. Your resource units are tough but are vulnerable to being snatched from your possession by opportunistic salvagers. Learn to protect yours, and be the game's best thief.
Specialty units are also important, and when used correctly, can turn the tide of a battle. The cloak, grav well generator, and minelaying corvette let you use tactics not normally found in real-time strategy games. Also, the probe and proximity detector can be used to scout your enemy and maintain an eye on movement and fleet size.
Resource Collector
Classification: Non-Combat
Race: Kushan/Taiidan
Cost: 650 RUs
Build additional resource collectors to harvest the map as quickly as possible. |
The resource collector is, arguably, your most important unit in Homeworld (besides, of course, the mothership). Without the resource collector, you have no means of harvesting space dust and asteroids and converting them into resource units for use in constructing new offensive and defensive craft. If you lose your resource collector, especially when you're running low on resource units, then, to put it simply, you're screwed.
Protect your resource collector, both in the single- and multiplayer game, though you'll find the human opponent will be much more aggressive against your collectors than the computer adversary. Position scouts and proximity sensors at all times around the area you're harvesting - don't get surprised by an enemy fleet, especially one protected by a cloak generator.
Get multiple resource collectors up and running as soon as possible. The faster you collect resources, the faster you can construct your fleet and move on the offensive. Balance the early game between building defenses (for your mothership and resource collectors), building additional collectors, and building offensive units and scouts. It isn't easy without a lot of money, but it's important that you don't devote too many resources to additional collectors without adequate defense to protect them.
Use the resource collector in conjunction with the resource controller to hasten the harvesting process. For more information on the resource controller, head to the next ship in this section.
For more on the resource collector, head over to the resource-collection section of this game guide.
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