Mechabellum Phoenix Guide

In a normal scenario, phoenix overkill most units and when they connect to the valuable target, the damage is usually enough. However, if you can position them correctly it becomes very powerful in certain situations. When used in combination of jump drive, this technology can be very powerful. I mostly use this against shields, Rhinos and Wraiths, but sometimes overlords and highly leveled medium units such as steel balls or sledgehammers. Keep in mind that the decreased range will leave your phoenix vulnerable if you don't have a fast frontline or the enemy is not pushing into you.

This tech depends on your play style. You can definitely play phoenix carry with quantum reassembly, shield, range and elite marksman. The elite marksman technology is also quite strong with the Elite Phoenix card which allows you to recruit lvl 3 phoenix immediately.

In my opinion this is the best technology of the Phoenix. It's very powerful when you start the game with phoenixes or buy them round 1. You can position them very aggressively, flank with them and move them around to counter enemy Rhinos and what not. If this does not fit your play style, you shouldn't equip this technology as it makes the relevant survivability and range technologies more expensive and the jump drive isn't useful late game.

Very powerful technology. When you choose the technologies for your units, you need to have EMP on some of them. Usually the best unit to have EMP is the stormcaller but they are sometimes a bit unreliable because the missiles can be intercepted, so the Phoenix is a good unit to guarantee the hit. Sometimes good vs Fortress Anti-Air, against War Factories, against Melting Points or Wraiths.

The more I play Phoenix, the less I use this technology. You can get a better payoff by positioning better and favoring the damage technologies. The shield can be very strong in late game, or in early game flanks or vs cards such as orbital bombardment.

Good when defending pushes or pushing yourself. Charged shot is better and cheaper, but this is safer because you don't have to be so careful with positioning (as this clears irrelevant targets faster). It's a pretty good combo to get Range and Launcher overload but it makes you too vulnerable to Fortress Anti-air.

For many players, the role of Phoenix is a long range sniper. I use them mostly in aggressive way with jump drive and with my play style, the range is useless. It's very good though if you position more safely and don't protect your phoenixes as much. Don't buy this tech too early though, you should focus more on developing the battlefield. If you battlefield is developed, the enemy can't touch your short range phoenixes.

Strong with mass produced phoenix card and strong in other games modes such as 2vs2 or FFA . Good when you have phoenixes on multiple fronts (both sides, both flanks). Good trick is to mobile beacon one phoenix to fly in circles in the back of your base to resurrect the rest. You can do this in 2v2 games as well, beacon to your allys board. Keep in mind that this is easily countered by EMP marksmen or EMP wasps. It's not that good in 1v1, it's a bit of a win more technology. Can be useful to protect against spells like Lightning Storm or Orbital Bombardment.