Beyond All Reason - Cortex Unit Thesaurus 

This is an incredible amount of work. Thank you! And I'll certainly keep an eye out for the upcoming seaplane content.

I could write a treatise on them but I'll try to be brief.. Commandos have a very peculiar use case, which is to say. Forward operating bases. Their stealth jamming field stays on while being transported, so you can transport them and 3 twitchers to an area adjacent to the frontlines and setup a base to start pumping out fiends or other T2 bots. It can really mess with people when suddenly they have multiple frontlines with mine fields suddenly popping up between them. Alternatively your commandos can serve as an armed stealth generator and cloak other combat units from heavy artillery fire. While increasing overall DPS on the enemy frontlines, the ability to repair and reclaim is also useful. Also Decoy Commanders have the same build power as regular commanders which is to say basically better than everything else.

THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS the amount of research I've done to figure out what buildings and units even do is unfathomable

First of all, amazing video! Really appreciate the time and detail you put into these. Only information that I would add is the self destruct for the Juggernaut and it's absolutely insane blast radius with the added benefit that it doesn't even leave behind a wreckage for reclaim/revive.

i know i said this on the armada video, but this just solidifies it for me: i'm surprised by just how similar a lot of the units in zero-k and byar are. it's been, what, fifteen-ish years (?) since these games became separate projects so i'm a bit surprised they haven't drifted further apart in this regard. the biggest mechanical differences i see are in the broader game design approach: how the progression and factory division works, the amount of automation and unit ai, things like that. but when it comes to individual units, there are far more units with a clear common origin that have remained very similar than i expected going into these videos

Thanks so much! This is really helping me plan a switch into Cortex.

Im new to BAR thanks for making this, been following your intro videos they really help. Thank you

Thanks for the work on this

Pretty good explanation of Cortex ! Kudos !

thank you for putting in the effort here

Would you consider making a similar guide for buildings? I often feel like i never know when its a good idea to build something like an advanced solar or advanced fusion. Similarly i feel pretty clueless on more obscure options like juno, deflectors and the majority of turrets

18:45: "Mammoth tank in the field!" "Armor superiority" "Apocalypse moving" "Face your mortality" As a dude raised on Command & Conquer these impressive walkers were immediately familiar to me after the GDI Mammoth and Soviet Apocalypse. The naming is probably a wink for those OGs too.

Time stamps :) Great video though thank you so much!

this is amazing you are a god thank you so much me love you long time. for real. im a noob. no idea what im doing but i wanna learn this game so bad. you're saving lives.

Cataphracts remind me of magriders from planetside 2. All it's missing is the nose cannon.

38:20 Decoy commander is a really good unit, build 4-5 units of these to help reclaim on area you want or even inside the base to help build things (300 build power, tell if its low build power)... Pair it with commando in transport and its just gold

Shuriken, wasp, t1 and heavy transport have the reverse triangle map icon!!!! That mean they can land on water!!!! I just get it now while i watch your guide xD this is a huge hidden feature

Im imagining a strat of sneaking passed an enemy's front with Spectres, then either sneakily trying to reclaim an enemy's AFUS, or EMPing their antinukes then nuking lol

Would be nice to have a link to the armada thesaurus in the description and vice-versa. Nice vid tho, helped a lot.

The Tiger might seem like a superficially underwheing unit when compared to the Bull, but it's significantly cheaper. Combine that with better mobility and more hit points ald what you have are these durable lumps of pig iron that can act as an frontline that can take a respectable amount of punishment while having enough firepower to deter lighter units that might try to destroy your Banishers and Quakers

Oh ! .. MY !!!

Does that Tzar have a "Z" on it, and what looks like Saint George stripes?

Holy cow you're so much louder in this video than you were in the previous thesaurus. Hopefully you don't end up thinking that destroyer=battleship when it comes to labeling like you did armada but that is a minor gripe.

Hey just a bit i don't think got covered, not huge buuut! Not all constructors are the same obviously but their Build Power is different too Buildpower on t1 Bot: 80 - Vehicle:90 - Air: 60 T2 Bot: 180 - Vehicle: 250 - Air: 100 So t2 vehicle Constructors build the fastest. 20 buildpower below a Commander.

Nicely done - curious why you left seaplanes out though?

+1

When is the Legion video coming? :P:P

good guide but please turn the in-game mouse click sound off. It's very distracting to those of us with headphones