Shredder Side: Imperium Type: Vehicle Movement Type: Hover Ground Weapon: None Anti-Air Weapon: None Range: 1 Damage: N/A Hit Points: 100 Sight Range: 9 Movement Speed: Extremely Fast Cost: 700 Requirements: Assembly Plant Built At: Assembly Plant

A Shredder can essentially kill outright any infantry that it manages to come into contact with. However, it has no attack whatsoever against vehicles or flying targets.

Combat

A rather unusual vehicle; this unit’s only method of attack is to mow things over. Shredders can harm only infantry, and only by running into them. For this reason, Shredders do have to put themselves well in the line of fire in order to do any damage at all. However, they are fairly fast, and you can increase their odds of success by picking off lone infantry or distracting them with other targets while moving the Shredders in for the kill.

You can leave Shredders on the edges of your base, near towers and other places where the enemy might target, and let them go after any infantry that wander by. It is also possible to park them along well-traveled roads; however, if the enemy brings along any vehicles, this will spell the end of your Shredders, so you may want to leave them where they will have some measure of backup protection.

Finally, if you want to be particularly mean, you can park one or more Shredders at the exit points of your enemy’s Training Facilities, decimating the foe’s troops as soon as they are constructed. This only works, of course, if the enemy doesn’t yet have any vehicles around to pick off your Shredders.

Countering

If the enemy is using Shredders against you, use the x key to keep your infantry scattered. This will force the Shredder to go around trying to pick them off one by one, during which time you can focus fire and destroy it. When at all possible, though, try to keep your infantry far away from the Shredders altogether, and bring your vehicles over to take them out instead.