• Very high speed and manouverability

• Very low cost

• Good view radius

• Good damage against infantry

• Low health and weak armor

• Ineffective against vehicles

Coyote is a fast moving anti-infantry unit. Its high speed makes it easy to get into the enemy base early during the battle and perform an effective scout. The speed also allows it to bypass and escape most enemy squads to accomplish its tasks. Sending a coyote ahead of an army on a march easily warns about the potential enemy threat, as well their location(s). This makes it easier to bypass the enemy squad or flank it.

The cheap cost of the coyote enables it to be mass produced, making it very good for rush attacks. Coyotes can be used for early rushes on their own, or combined with other units such as grenadiers or riflemen. The high speed enables coyotes to move to the rear of the base and target buildings such as the supply centers and power plants. The decent rate of fire allows them to deal good damage, which increases with numbers.

Coyotes are used for anti-reconnaissance as well. The main scout unit for confederation is the assault infantry. These are easily cut off by coyotes due to coyotes being faster and stronger. Placing coyotes on ways to the base or to patrol around the map can easily cut off any enemy scout infantry. This helps to conceal the base, increasing the success rate of a rush attack.

The coyote is very important for early flag capture in the game. In the early stages of battle coyotes move fast and capture flags and important points. Some points held by confederation assault infantry may prove difficult to obtain due to the lack of firepower of the riflemen. A well controlled coyote can take a flag away from 3 assault infantry, as well as guard a flag from at least 3 infantry.

Coyote has low HP and low armor. This makes it very important to avoid direct damage by staying on the move against enemy hostile units. The coyote's high speed enables it to dodge the rockets of heavy assaults, grenades of assaults and maintain range outside the flamethrower of fortresses. In the case of assaults and heavy assaults, it is important to keep the coyote in the move perpendicular to the line of fire to more effectively dodge the grenades and rockets. This helps also against fortresses to force them to rotate, making the flamethrower more difficult to use.

Hammers are a big threat to coyotes and must be avoided at all costs, unless the hammers are badly outnumbered. Coyotes in general must not be used against enemy vehicles, but mainly against enemy infantry. Even one hammer might be able to pick off a coyote or 2 when a massive coyote rush occurs.

While rarely seen, a couple of coyotes are surprisingly effective to hunt down a few torrents and typhoons. This becomes apparent if the enemy moves forward but yet has to undeploy the torrents and typhoons. In order to defeat a cluster of torrents with coyotes, the player still must keep on moving towards the torrents and time the reload before heading back. Scattering coyotes around the torrents is also a good strategy. The player needs to focus fire in order for the coyote to be effective. And if this is happening during a frontal assault by the enemy, the player needs to be good at multitasking too. Best to move the main army back for the Zeus to be lured away.

The upgrades don't have much to offer for coyotes.

Priority:
Seeing as how they need to be fast and need to be good scouting units. It is important to get the Light Armored Hull top notch. These upgrades increase the maneuverability and speed of the coyote. Secondly, you want them to have the best of vision, Optical Targeting System is what you need.

Primairy:
While having good health now. It will only increase with more Light Vehicle Armor. Despite being so low on armor to begin with, it helps more than getting the damage upgrades. This because we asume you already have the health upgrades done.

Secondary:
If you decide on getting these buggy buggers responsible personnel removal, the Triple Barreled Machine Gun and the Armor Piercing Cartridge is what you need the most. These upgrades also are good if you notice that your opponent has low armor on their buildings.

Tertiary:
Repair Kit.