The Fortress excels in defending vital positions near your base in the early game and in decimating any and all infantry that gets close enough to be in range of the flamethrower. Due to the Heavy Machine Gun being only marginally stronger than the rifles Assaults use, their main source of damage output comes from the flamethrower.

It’s main purpose lies mostly within the early game as a support vehicle for your own infantry and Hammers, as its lack of anti-tank capabilities and mobility make it very ineffective against both armored and faster units.

It can also be used to fight for big containers in the early game, as the container radius is small enough to force even much faster units to fight it up close. Its high armor also allows blocking the container collection until other units like Hammer, Cyclone or Cerberus can arrive and take over.

Its other purpose lies in being a mine detector which will drastically reduce its movement speed while active, but allows it to detect mines in a rather large radius and disable them safely by moving on top of them for a time. Keep in mind that the mine can explode if the fortress is being hit with explosives while in the middle of disarming it or if you give it a new order while the mine is still being defused, so only go for the disable if you are confident enough to do it uncontested, or alternatively blow the mines up manually by force firing at them with your tanks.

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