Perimeter - Legate Edition

About Perimeter - Legate Edition

Perimeter - Legate Edition is a browser build based on Perimeter, the 2004 real-time strategy game developed by K-D Lab. The core loop is classic RTS: gather energy, terraform the terrain to create buildable, defensible ground, expand your base, and raise a perimeter (a protective energy-shield 'frame') around your territory while fielding units that morph between different combat roles to fight off the hostile Scourge and rival Legates.

How to play Perimeter - Legate Edition

1. Start a mission and use your Command Center's terraforming tool to flatten and expand the land around your base into buildable terrain.
2. Build energy-collecting structures on the terraformed ground to fund construction and unit production.
3. Construct military and support buildings, then produce units and morph them between their different combat forms as the situation demands.
4. Raise a Perimeter (defensive energy frame) around your base to shield it from enemy attacks and Scourge incursions.
5. Select units or groups and issue move/attack orders to scout, expand your territory, and engage enemy forces.
6. Manage energy income against building and unit upkeep as you push outward, terraform new ground, and take the enemy base.

Controls

• Desktop: Mouse-driven RTS controls: left-click to select units/buildings and to place/confirm construction and terraforming, right-click to issue move/attack orders, drag to box-select multiple units, and use on-screen menus/hotkeys to switch between build, terraform, and unit-morph modes.
• Mobile / tablet: Tap to select units and menu options, and tap-and-drag for movement/box-selection, following the same point-and-command interface as the desktop version, adapted for touch on the GamePix player.

Perimeter - Legate Edition tips & strategy

• Terraform early: flat land is required to place most buildings, so expand your buildable footprint before you run out of room.
• Keep your energy income ahead of your spending - new buildings and unit production both draw on the same energy pool.
• Raise your Perimeter shield before an attack lands, not during one; it takes time to establish and is much less useful reactively.
• Morph your units to match the threat instead of building new unit types from scratch - it's faster and cheaper mid-battle.
• Scout with cheap, expendable units before committing your main force so you're not walking into a fortified enemy perimeter blind.

What makes Perimeter - Legate Edition fun

A browser build built on a genre-distinct 2004 RTS: instead of static maps, you actively reshape the battlefield with terraforming, and unit 'morphing' lets a single unit type flex between multiple combat roles instead of locking you into fixed unit rosters.