History VideoGame / AdvancedStrategicCommand

* AntiAir

** YouRequireMoreVespeneGas: Material, Fuel, Electric Energy.
** "ConstructAdditionalPylons" works only if you have worthwile mineral resources down there (wind and sun power stations run for free, but [[WeatherOfWar only if the weather allows]] and still cost a lot to ''build''). Also, more renewable sources available via lumberjacks and crystal collectors.
** ResourceGathering helps if you have fuel to spare, but not enough of material -- find a big good rock or fried a tank, get a bulldozer or a truck over there. Though you'll need a special ship to get tasty piles of materials from the sea bottom.

* DefogOfWar: Launch satellites. If you can't, use common radars and spy submarines. Failed that, anything with view bonus -- some AntiAir units, snipers, zeppelins. If there are submarines, drop whole chains of sonar buoys or patrol with sonar-enabled ships. And use terrain and jammers to deny the same advantage to your enemy. View field is the main difference between HitAndRunTactics and delivery of materials as wreck piles.
** It's sensitive at times, too -- FogOfWar may eat a hex or three out of your radar's visible area when you build a single anti-tank hedgehog.

** FanRemake: The game apparently can use original graphics of ''Battle Isle'' if it's already installed, and considering unit names, "[=Mk4=]" ruleset is supposed to be used for this purpose.

* NonEntityGeneral

* UsefulNotes/ScriptingLanguage: UsefulNotes/{{Lua}}-based scripting.

* TacticalRockPaperScissors / CripplingOverspecialization: You're not going to use, e.g. AntiAir units for anything but shooting flyers or minor scouting. Infantry also can capture unguarded buildings or work as emergency fuel/material carriers, but that's about it. Cruisers and hunter helicopters are more flexible, but special-purpose ships and aircraft are still better.

* UnitsNotToScale

** FanRemake: The game apparently can use original graphics of ''Battle Isle'' if it's already installed, and considering unit names, "Mk4" ruleset is supposed to be used for this purpose.

* MostAnnoyingSound: Whrrr... Whoofshhh! Whrrr... Eh, [[GoddamnedBats yet another speedboat]].

* ScriptingLanguage: UsefulNotes/{{Lua}}-based scripting.

* MiniMecha: Several variants. Big enough to carry miniguns or torpedoes, but small enough to conquer buildings and weight 2-3 times more than an infantry unit -- sprites look more like armed power loaders (''Film/{{Alien}}'' one, not ''VideoGame/PowerDolls''). Otherwise, they are [[GlassCannon weakly armored]] and rather slow "light tracked vehicles", meaning they eat fuel, get stopped by anti-tank hedgehogs and slowed down by everything while as vulnerable (or more) as infantry to anything other than machineguns and AP mines. The combination of abilities to fit into troop transports, take buildings, ignore and snipers or barbed wire is their main advantage over normal infantry which tend to collect too much reaction fire on disembarking.

* ZergRush: Sometimes possible, especially against low-XP enemy. Generally, low-armor units suffer greatly, but long-range artillery tend to be helpless against point-blank attacks so those that manage to break through may do the job; also, many relatively cheap units, [[GlassCannon while fragile, can hit hard]] and are stealthy (infantry), useful for HitAndRunTactics (zepellins) or both (speedboats).

* BaseOnWheels: A huge land transport (called [[Literature/{{Discworld}} Atuin]] in the basic ruleset) can be very useful, as it gives mobility to a bunch of slow units and saves fuel. Doubles as a poor commander's APC since it protects at least from snipers and moves minelaying infantry faster than pursuing tanks. [[ResourceGathering Collecting materials]] from wrecks is a nice bonus.

* CommandAndConquerEconomy: It's not as much economy as resource crisis holding back your production onslaught or even repair.

** "ConstructAdditionalPylons" works only if you have worthwile mineral resources down there (wind and sun power stations run for free, but [[WeatherOfWar only if the weather allows]] and still cost a lot to ''build'').
** ResourceGathering usually helps -- found a big good rock or fried a tank, get a bulldozer or a truck over there. Though you'll need a special ship to get tasty piles of materials from the sea bottom.

** FanRemake: It apparently can use original graphics of ''Battle Isle'' if it's already installed, and considering unit names, "Mk4" ruleset is supposed to be used for this purpose.

* ItsRainingMen: And an occasionally fast armed ATV with ''any'' infantry inside. Or sonar buoys. In Mk-3 unitset, possible precipitations include radars, jammers and self-propelled antitank guns.
* KillSat: Once you get spy satellites, orbital weapon platforms are not far behind.
* MiniMecha: Several variants. Big enough to carry miniguns or torpedoes, but small enough to conquer buildings and weight 2-3 times more than an infantry unit -- sprites look more like armed power loaders (''Film/{{Alien}}'' one, not ''PowerDolls''). Otherwise, they are [[GlassCannon weakly armored]] and not very fast "light tracked vehicles" (so anti-tank hedgehogs stop them). Of course, the combination of abilities to take buildings, fit into armored troop transport, ignore snipers and barbed wire is already a big advantage.

* RidiculouslyFastConstruction: Everything is built instantly, though units can't fire or move on their own at the same turn. It's possible to [[GameMod set up a ruleset]] with buildings constructed in more than one stage.

* SeaMine: Oh, yes. Anti-ship and anti-submarine. Currently due to [[GoodBadBugs indiscriminate engine]] anti-tank mines can be set on some water hexes and work as anti-hovercraft (they react on units at "ground" height).

* SupportPower: Map events can do almost anything. Including spawning reinforcements to any side including player's or allies on a condition, or revealing an area. Present in the basic campaigns.

* TunnelNetwork: Pipelines. Better if buried. You can live without them, but factories would require transports eating tons of fuel just to get resources there. Since anything large requires more resources than a factory holds, it must be either in direct contact with a bigger storage or connected to it via pipelines.

* WorkerUnit: Builders, transports, repair vehicles, icebreaker, ''mobile diesel generator''...

* TechTree: Technologies allowing construction of units and buildings have prerequisites (to develop an air-dropable buggy you need to know how to make parachutes and how to make a buggy), which have their own prerequisites. Basic unitsets coexist in one pack, so they are switched via allowing their root technology in the map's properties. At a long-term map you decide which troops are needed first and at all (quick maps have no means for R&D at all).

* BaseOnWheels: A huge land transport (called [[Main/{{Discworld}} Atuin]] in the basic ruleset) can be very useful, as it gives mobility to a bunch of slow units and saves fuel. Doubles as a poor commander's APC since it protects at least from snipers and moves minelaying infantry faster than pursuing tanks. [[ResourceGathering Collecting materials]] from wrecks is a nice bonus.

** "ConstructAdditionalPylons" works only if you have worthwile mineral resources down there (wind and sun power stations run for free, but still cost a lot to ''build'').

* DefogOfWar: Launch satellites. If you can't, use common radars. Failed that, anything with view bonus -- some AntiAir units, snipers, zeppelins. If there are submarines, drop whole chains of sonar buoys or patrol with sonar-enabled ships. And use terrain and jammers to deny the same advantage to your enemy. View field is the main difference between HitAndRunTactics and delivery of materials as wreck piles.

* GarrisonableStructures: Transported units can only wait to be deployed or killed with the transport and buildings proper are indefensible, but buildable constructions such as trenches may provide attack, defence and jamming benefits, turret foundations do the same and are necessary to use turrets.

* RidiculouslyFastConstruction: Everything is built instantly, though it's possible to [[GameMod set up a ruleset]] where building something takes longer than one turn.

* SeaMine: Oh, yes. Anti-ship and anti-submarine. Currently due to [[GoodBadBugs indiscriminate engine]] anti-tank mines can be set on shallow water and work as anti-hovercraft (they react on everything at "ground" height).
* StartingUnits: Everything is up to the mapmaker, so even if you have production and research capabilities at all, set/spawned units and available technologies on the same map are unrelated. Technically, they could even belong to completely different rulesets.
* SupportPower: Events can do almost anything. Including spawning reinforcements to any side including player's or allies on a condition, or revealing an area.