Building that army

Actual concrete progress! Here we can see four different sizes of battledroid, all staring into the sun. Dotted around them are a couple of buildings, the first ones implemented so far - the bigger ones are reactors, and the smaller ones are scanners.

Reactors are used to augment damage. When turrets are placed near a reactor, their damage output increases by +25%. A turret can receive a maximum bonus of 100% from nearby reactors - doubling its damage output!

Scanners are used to augment range. When turrets are placed near a scanner, their detection (and hence shooting) range radius are increased by 25%. A maximum range bonus of 100% is allowed - doubling the effective range of a turret! This is one of the chief advantages that the defending army has over the attacking army - they can use increased range to start firing upon the attackers long before they themselves can get in range.

The other advantage of buffing the range of turrets is that the attacking army cannot deploy within the firing range of the defending army - so you can exclude large tracts of the map from the enemy deployment!

So, that's two buildings done, what's left?

Of the turret augmentation utility buildings there's batteries (increased clip size), cooling towers (increased firing rate), and reloaders (reduced reloading time).

Then there's the artefact buildings - the decoy (which fools the enemy into thinking it's a valuable target), and the scarecrow (which fools the enemy into thinking there's something super-deadly there).

Finally there are the utility buildings, which affect all the other buildings and turrets near them: the shield generator (gives all nearby buildings shields - handy, because turrets don't have shields, normally only droids do), and cloaking device (which makes all nearby buildings literally invisible ... except to x-ray vision).

We're waiting on Super Attack Programmer Dan to fix transparent rendering before we can get on with half of the buildings because they have glass bits in. The other half should be ready by the end of next week!