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ZEPHON Human Path Reveal

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[h3]ZEPHON: Paths[/h3]
Your story follows the mandates of survival to start with—gathering support from the other survivors, overcoming human rivals, and securing recurring sources of basic goods so that your base is stable enough to go further. During this, you encounter representatives of the three paths you will choose from, and determine how each is a threat to the continued survival of humanity on the planet.

[h3]Human Path[/h3]
Continuing down the human path will bring you closer to the human survivors. This is the path about struggle, human suffering, moral values, bloodthirstiness, greed and hesitancy. Your progress will be pragmatic and follow traditional military decree. Bulky tanks and troopers. A variety of transports, scouts and many versatile gadgets. You might even get your hands on a nuke.

[h3]Militant[/h3]

Everyone who survived fought. Every one of us could have been a soldier. We called ourselves 'militants', though, because it reflected that we now fought for a purpose, political or social. The survival of mankind, whatever that took.

The militants are the basic unit of human survivors. Six people equipped with light military equipment, they’re the mainstay of any Commander’s early game, especially useful when confronting the Earth’s new diverse and hideous wildlife. They are fragile, though, so they need to mutually support each other.

[h3]Outrider[/h3]

Ex-military fast transports, driven by militants. Never designed to go toe-to-toe with the new enemies of mankind. But then nothing was—artillery, nukes, carriers, all had failed. At least in an Outrider, you had a chance of getting away—that's why there were so many left.

These seem like fast scout vehicles, familiar to players of many other strategy games. However, they have transport capacity as well as better armor and morale than the Militants. This enables them to take on a tanking role against enemies with low armor penetration, before speeding out of range when they’re too damaged—and later on, they can leave mines behind them as they go, slowing pursuers.

[h3]Engineer[/h3]

Some had formal training, most didn't. Scientists, construction workers, technicians. The thing that distinguished the people we called engineers from everyone else was that they had the skills to get the job done, whatever the job. The ones who hadn't...? Well, they weren't around anymore.

ZEPHON may take place in a destroyed world, but it’s not just about war. Your Engineers are the unit you look to when you want to do something more peaceful—whether that’s create new cities, repair damaged mechanical units, or clear tile features. Later on, they also unlock the abilities to build bunkers and ‘tune’ mechanical units, meaning that they’re a necessity throughout the game.

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