The campaign of this mod takes place during the Seven Hour War. You mostly command armies of Combine Synths and Advisors, but on some levels you will play as the Human Armies, and on special levels you get to play as a Gonarch commanding Headcrabs, or as Glowing Antlion Guardians commanding Antlion Colonies. In Co-Op mode, both players play as one army of the team. They share resources and work together against the enemy. In Multiplayer Local, 1 player with up to 3 ally bots against 4 enemy bots, play against each other. Teams to be chosen involve Combine, Americans/Germans/Japanese/Russian, headcrabs and antlions. Online multiplayer will be like local multiplayer, but with actual living opponents, open slots being replaced by bots. The armies are vast, the stories are vast, the combat is vast. Everything you can expect out of the seven hour war, and more. WE ARE RECRUITING!!!!!! We need programmers, skinners, modelers, anyone who can help is welcome to an interview!
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Some kind of antlion synth...cool!
It's not exactly a synth. You think the combine have time to develop a new synth in under 7 hours? It's something just as epic, though.
The combine developed everything before the attack.
I'm pretty sure once they enslave a species they don't leave a huge amount of military power on the planet, so it can only be logical that they withdrew most synths and troops(?)after they were secured.
Well, after the attack, I would assume the combine would take any new developments with them back to their home universe. However, during the war, surely they would take as much as is available to them to make it their own and take it into their forces. Considering the Antlion is xenian, and simply recovering on earth, the combine would take advantage of them.
In canon, once the war was over, the combine placed bases (some of which were citadels) around the world in a network. The center of this network is in city 17. They evacuated excess military powers, and simply established a police force. They adapted the humans into the highest branch of this, the overwatch. I'm not sure how this is relevant here, though.
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