TGMC:Squad Engineer

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MARINE

Squad Engineer

Access: Squad Room, Squad Engineer Prep, wherever your tools take you. Difficulty: Medium Rank: Lance Corporal (Starting), Corporal (25 hours), Sergeant (100 hours) Class: Marines Supervisors: Squad Leader Duties: Stick with your squad, follow your Squad Leader's orders. Open up entrances, place down fortifications. Forget to flip your welding goggles down. Guides: Guide to Engineering, Guide to Base Building, Guide to Fire Support Quote:"May I have more metals, please?"

Introduction

The Squad Engineer is responsible for a variety of tasks, the most important being erecting battlefield fortifications, setting up forward-operating bases (FOB's,) and repairing/destroying mission-critical objectives. You have lots of tools and materials to work with, including the TGMC's powerful remote sentry units, land mines, barbed wire, explosives, and welders.

Playing the Engineer

As an engineer, you must be prepared to operate effectively with whatever assignment your squad is given. Sometimes a squad will be assigned a specific duty solely based on their engineers, building the initial FOB or repairing colony communications or power, for example. Other times, you will be in an assault squad that's constantly on the move, assisting with demolition, entry into inaccessible areas, and making defensive areas forward of the main FOB or LZ.

The FOB is built by drone on the ship, which is far faster than building it by hand. Once the FOB shutters are raised, it will be surrounded by xenos, meaning every single marine will be trapped inside.

Almost every marine operation will have some type of FOB, and all engineers need to know how to build and maintain one of these positions. You must also learn how to set up and place defensive weapon systems like the UA 571-C Sentry. After learning these basics, you will also need to familiarize yourself with repairing mission-critical infrastructure such as colony power generators, APCs, and miners to provide req with points. These activities will make up the bulk of your job, but further learning includes demolition using C4 and remote charges, welding, repair, hacking, construction, and on-site salvaging for any material you could use.

Vendors, Equipment, and Weapons

The Squad Engineer has their own prep room within their squad prep area (hover your mouse over the doors if you can't find it.) Inside are your GHMME Automated Closet, NEXUS Automated Engineer Equipment Rack, and yellow Engineer System Vendor.

The Automated Closet contains your standard kit, choice of armor, backpack, webbings, toolbelt, pouches, and any mask you may want.

NEXUS Automated Engineer Equipment Rack

The Automated Equipment Rack contains your Essential Engineer Set, which is free, as well as 75 points to purchase additional supplies, tools, explosives, and special ammunition.

Module	Point Cost	Description
Essential Engineer Kit	0	Contains 1 power control board, 1 light replacer, 1 entrenching tool, high capacity power cell, 1 insulated marine combat gloves, 1 razorburn grenade, 1 plastic explosive, 1 Soldering Tool.
Metal	2	10 Metal. Maximum stack 50.
Plasteel	4	10 Plasteel. Maximum stack 50.
Empty Sandbags	5	25 sandbags, maximum stack 50. Fillable with entrenching tool. Filled bags are normal-sized with maximum stack of 25
TL-182 Deployable Shield	3	A deployable and portable Barricade.
Deployable Floodlight	2	A deployable floodlight. Fits in backpacks. Click when deployed to turn on.
High-Capacity Industrial Blowtorch	5	A welder with 80u of welding fuel and is normal size compared to the standard welder, fits on the tool belt.
Superior welding goggles	2	Obscures your vision less than standard welding goggles.
Superior welding module	2	Obscures your vision less than a standard welding module.
Plasma Cutter	20	Plasma Cutter. Can be ordered by Requisitions.
Plastique explosive	2	A Plastic Explosive capable of destroying most walls and doors. Is safe and does not have an explosive range.
EX-62 Genghis Incendiary Charge	15	A Deployable charge that sticks to resin structures. Will send a trail of flames through the resin structure on the opposite side.
Detonation pack	5	A Detonation Pack with 2 modes Breach and Demolition. Max timer of 300 seconds and minimum of 5. capable of being detonated with a signaler. Does have an explosive range. Note: Requires a signaler.
UA-580 Point Defence Sentry Kit	50	UA-580 Point Defence sentry kit containing the PD Sentry (normal-sized), and 2 M30 box magazines (normal-sized) for it.
Iguana Unmanned Vehicle	50	A Crate containing a Light Unmanned Vehicle, Vehicle controller, Light turret, and 3 boxes of 11x35mm ammo for the turret.
Build-A-Sentry	30	An attachment that lets you turn most guns into deployable sentries. Note: Will not have IFF unless the gun normally shoots IFF bullets such as the T29.
Range Finder	10	A Pair of Binoculars that can acquire coordinates at range, and automatically send them to a linked mortar.
AI Targeting Module	10	A device that allows any AI on the ship to remotely aim the mortar it's attached to.
Hand-held cell charger	3	A Hand-Held Cell Charger capable of recharging cells by putting the cell in the charger and using it in hand.
High capacity powercell	1	A power cell with 10000 power. Can be found in the Engi-Vend vendors.
M20 mine box	18	A normal-sized mine box with 5 claymores.
Large M20 mine box	35	A normal-sized mine box with 10 claymores.
M21 APRDS "Minelayer"	5	A Deployable machine that, when filled and activated, will rapidly deploy up to 10 M20 Claymores in a medium radius.
Mining well Overclock upgrade	4	An upgrade for Mining drills that increases the mining speed. Only one upgrade can be slotted in a miner at a time.
Mining well Reinforcement upgrade	4	An upgrade for Mining drills that protects the drill from weaker xenos. Only one upgrade can be slotted in a miner at a time.
Pack of Razorburn Grenades	11	A pouch with 4 Razorburn Grenades.
Razorburn Canister	7	A Razorburn grenade that affects more tiles then regular Razorburn. Contains 40u Nanomachines and 30u Foaming Agent. Standing in the affected area while the razorburn is still making wire will give you Nanomachines (different from Medical Nanites) which harms you but can be negated using armour with high Bio protection. Turns invisible if wirecuttered.
Razorburn Grenade	3	A Razorburn grenade. Can be used to make Medical Nanites if deconstructed (Wirecutter, Wrench) Contains 10u Nanomachines and 5u Foaming Agent. Can be mixed in a beaker to make Razor Wire. Standing in the affected area while the razorburn is still making wire will give you Nanomachines (different from Medical Nanites) which harms you but can be negated using armour with high Bio protection. Currently deconstructing Razorburn grenades turn them invisible but they are still there if you put them on the floor and Alt click and use the Floor Tab menu to wrench it. Makes 5 Razor Wire in a Plus shape (+)
HE Mortar shell	2	A High-Explosive shell for use in a Mortar. Creates a large explosion at it's impact point.
Incendiary Mortar shell	2	An Incendiary shell for use in a Mortar. Creates a large amount of fire at it's impact point.
Tanglefoot Mortar shell	2	A Tanglefoot shell for use in a Mortar. Dispenses a large amount of Plasma-draining gas at it's impact point.
Smoke Mortar shell	1	A Smoke shell for use in a Mortar. Dispenses a large amount of Smoke at it's impact point.
Flare Mortar shell	1	A Flare shell for use in a Mortar. Drops a brighter than average flare at it's impact point.
Flamethrower tank	4	A Large flamethrower tank for use in the FL-84 Flamethrower. This is not the same flamethrower as the Flamethrower bag's.

Barricades

Barricade	Health	Armour	Cost	Misc Information
Metal	200	80 Fire, 40 Acid	4 Metal	Can be upgraded using 1 metal. Can have barbed wire attached.
Sandbags	300	80 Fire, 40 Acid	5 Filled Sandbags	Faster to place. Repairable with filled sandbags. Can be spam repaired for quick fixing. Can have barbed wire attached.
Plasteel	500	80 Fire, 40 Acid	5 Plasteel	Can be linked to other plasteel cades by clicking it with a crowbar allowing linked plasteel cades to be opened at the same time Can have barbed wire attached.
Razor Wire	100	No armour	4 Metal for 2 spools.	Not to be confused with barbed wire. Damages xenos if slashed. Can entangle crushers if they charge into this. Can also be made with 4 metal rods and 1 barbed wire. Wire cutter to deconstruct it.
QuikDeploy System	200	100 Bio, 80 Fire, 40 Acid	Unobtainable Formerly 3 Requisition Point	A metal cade able to be placed without needing skills. Only useful for marines without construction skills. Is also slower then just building a cade with metal as an engineer. Is small sized. Can not be stacked. Only in Requsitions
TL-182 Deployable Shield	300	35 Melee, 30 Bullet, 20 Laser, 40 Energy, 25 Bomb, 30 Acid	30 Requisition Points OR 3 points in the Engineer's Equipment Rack	Can be placed/removed without needing any skills by ctrl+clicking a tile adjacent to you/click-dragging the barricade into your sprite. Is also a normal-sized item and can be stored on satchels. Can have barbed wire attached.
Wooden Barricade	100	No armour	5 Wood

Deconstruction

To deconstruct Metal and Plasteel cades. Screwdriver, Wrench and Crowbar. To deconstruct Sandbags use a shovel. To deconstruct Razor Wire use wire cutters

Make sure the Cade is repaired otherwise you won't get all your materials back. If it has acid it will drop only some materials and it will not drop the barbed wire so make sure to wire cut the barbed wire otherwise you lose it if you do not.

Repairing Cades

Metal and plasteel can be repaired with a welder for 85 health per weld.

Sandbags can be repaired with filled sandbags for 20% heal per bag.

Razor Wire can be repaired with metal.

Barricade Upgrades

Type	Armour	Cost	Misc Information
Concussive	50 Bomb	1 Metal	Click on the cade with at least 1 metal to upgrade it. Lessens the King's Gravity Crush damage..
Ballistic	30 Melee, 30 Bullet	1 Metal	Click on the cade with at least 1 metal to upgrade it. Lessens the Crusher's Charge damage done to cades.
Caustic	20 Acid	1 Metal	Click on the cade with at least 1 metal to upgrade it. Protects against acid spits. Prevents barricade from being melted with acid vomit.
Barbed Wire	50 Health	2 Metal	Damages xenos if slashed. Prevents xenos from pouncing over the cade, also blocks climbing through, remove with wirecutters.

Deconstruction

Crowbar to remove the upgrades. Wire cutter to remove the barbed wire

Emplacements

Emplacement	Information	How to use	Damage
UA-571-C Sentry Gun	A deployable, slow firing, automated sentry with 500 rounds. Has 3 fire modes Automatic, Auto-Burst and Burst Fire. Fires in 4 round bursts. Radial reduces range instead by 2 Takes 6 seconds to deploy. 6 seconds to pick up. Manual Override allows you to control it. Can be reloaded while in hand. 200 Health and 50 Armour. Built-in IFF System	Control click to deploy. Drag click to you to pick up. Alt click to remove mag only if deployed otherwise regular click if in hand. Can be repaired with a welder. Can be shot over.	25 damage 20 AP 0 Sunder 0.25 Automatic Rate of Fire 0.6 Burst Rate of Fire 8 Range
UA-580 Point Defence Sentry	A deployable, fast firing, automated sentry with 300 rounds. Has 3 fire mods Automatic, Auto-Burst and Burst Fire. Fires in 3 round bursts. Radial reduces range by 2 Takes 3 seconds to deploy. 3 seconds to pick up. Manual Override allows you to control it. Can be reloaded while in hand. 200 Health and 50 Armour. Built-in IFF System	Control click to deploy. Drag click to you to pick up. Alt click to remove mag only if deployed otherwise regular click if in hand. Can be repaired with a welder. Can be shot over.	20 damage 20 AP 0 Sunder 0.2 Auto Rate of Fire 0.4 Burst Rate of Fire 7 Range
TL102 Heavy Smart Gun	A deployable. fast firing, HSG with 300 rounds. Has 2 fire mods Automatic and Burst Fire. Fires in 3 round bursts. Has a mini scope. Can be turned around by clicking on any tile directly to the left or right of it. Takes 5 seconds to deploy. 5 seconds to pick up Can be reloaded while in hand. 125 Health and 50 Bullet Armour. Built-in IFF System	Control click to deploy. Drag click to you to pick up. Alt click to remove mag only if deployed otherwise regular click if in hand. Can be repaired with a welder. Can be shot over.	40 damage 40 AP 5 Sunder 0.25 Auto Rate of Fire 0.2 Burst Rate of Fire
T-27 Medium Machinegun	A deployable, faster firing, MMG with 100 rounds. Has only 1 fire mode Automatic. Can accept attachments. Can also be fired from the hand with heavy recoil. Can be turned around by clicking on any tile directly to the left or right of it. Takes 1 second to deploy. 1 second to pick up. Can be reloaded while in hand. 200 Health and 50 Bullet Armour. Only has IFF with Aim Mode.	Control click to deploy. Drag click to you to pick up. Alt click to remove mag only if deployed otherwise regular click if in hand. Can be repaired with a welder. Can be shot over.	30 Damage 10 AP 1.25 Sunder 0.15 Rate of Fire 0.25 Aim Mode Rate of Fire
MG-08/495 Heavy Machinegun	A deployable fast firing, HMG with 500 rounds. Has only 1 fire mode Automatic. Has a mini scope. Can be turned around by clicking on any tile directly to the left or right of it. Takes 8 seconds to deploy. 8 seconds to pick up . Can be reloaded while in hand. 150 Health and 50 Bullet Armour. Has no IFF be very careful.	Control click to deploy. Drag click to you to pick up. Alt click to remove mag only if deployed otherwise regular click if in hand. Can be repaired with a welder. Can be shot over.	40 damage 40 AP 5 Sunder 0.2 Auto Rate of Fire
Build-A-Sentry Attachment System	An rail attachment that when attached to an applicable gun can be placed like a sentry with the function of the gun attached to. 250 Health. Will not have IFF unless the gun has IFF built in like the T29 Smart gun.	Control click to deploy. Drag click to you to pick up. Alt click to remove mag only if deployed otherwise regular click if in hand. Can be repaired with a welder. Can be shot over.	Dependant on the gun it is attached to
Combat Floodlight	A powerful portable light source. Lasts for 15 minutes using the power cell it comes with. 500 Health.	Wrench to bolt/unbolt. Click to turn on/off. Crowbar to remove power cell Can not be repaired. Can be shot over.	Making dark areas bright.
M402 Mortar	A deployable mortar capable of firing 5 types of mortar shells. 200 Health. Takes 5 seconds to deploy the mortar. 5 seconds to pick up the mortar. Takes 2 seconds to fire. 9 seconds for shells to land. Does not have a skill requirement to use.	Control click the mortar while in hand to deploy. Wrench to pick up. Is inaccurate depending on how far away the target is. Every 10 tiles travelled is 1 tile inaccuracy which can be countered using the mortar Longitude and Latitude offset. Can be repaired with a welder. Can not be shot over.	High Explosive shells Incendiary shells Tangle shells Flare shells Smoke shells
ASRS Bluespace Teleporter Pad	A Teleporter pad Capable of teleporting Marines, Crates and Machinery. 200 Health. Can not be shot at or slashed only melted. Takes 2 seconds to deploy. 2 seconds to pick up. Needs either a powered APC to function or an inserted powercell.	Control click the teleporter while in hand to deploy. Wrench to pick up. Needs power to function. Can insert powercells to power it. Crowbar to remove power cell Can be repaired with a welder.	Logistics

APCs

Repairing Broken APC

If the APC is only broken usually a result of xenos slashing.

• Mend all of the wires (Make sure to wear insulated gloves)
• Screwdriver the APC to close the cover
  

Repairing/Relocating APC

Deconstruction

In order to relocate/repair a completely destroyed APC () you will need to deconstruct it.

• Screwdriver the APC to unexpose the wires if they are exposed (), make sure the wires are mended first using wirecutters (). (Or just hit the APC with any tool to remove the cover if it's destroyed)
• (Only if the APC isn't destroyed): Unlock the cover by swiping your ID (or pulsing the right wire with a multitool if your ID doesn't have access) and disengaging the lock on the APC window, and use the crowbar on it to open the cover.
• Remove the power cell with an empty hand.
• Crowbar the floor tile underneath the APC to expose the terminal. (If it is not already exposed)
• Wire cut the APC to disconnect the terminal. (You will get 10 cable coil)
• Screwdriver the APC to loosen the power board.
• Crowbar the APC to remove the board. (You won't get a power control board if it's from a destroyed APC)
• Weld the APC to get 1 metal and deconstruct it (WARNING: Some areas can have another APC taking over if deconstructed, preventing you from placing a new APC). Or click it with an APC frame (made with 2 metal) to replace and repair it.

Construction

To construct a new APC you will need to:

• Make an APC frame with 2 metal, dismantle surrounding tables (if any) using wrench if you do not have 2 metal.
• Attach APC frame to a wall (On a more strategic location ideally)
• (Optional) Crowbar the floor tile underneath the APC. (If it is not already exposed)
• (Optional) Use 10 Cable Coils on the APC to make a terminal. Connect the terminal to the colony's cable power grid if it's powered.
• Insert a Power Control Module (APC) Board. (You can also use the General Circuit Boards if you multitool it to turn it into a APC Board)
• Screwdriver the APC to secure the board.
• Insert power cell into APC, make sure it has charge.
• Crowbar the APC to close the cover. If left open, xenos can slash the APC to destroy the battery.
• Unlock the APC using an ID with access, or expose the wires and pulse the right wire using multitool if your ID does not have access.
• Turn the main breaker on it starts off by default.

Replacing an APC power cell

• Assuming the APC is undamaged, first unlock the APC if it is not already with an ID card with APC access.
• Access the interface and disable the cover lock.
• Crowbar open the cover.
• Remove the drained power cell (if there is one) with a free hand.
• Install a charged power cell.
• Crowbar the cover closed.
• (Optional) Lock the APC with the ID. The cover lock will automatically engage.

Repairing Robots

Read the guide on repairing robots for info on fixing these poor robots.

Tips

• As of July 11th 2021 there are 12 engineer slots per round, and usually only 2-4 engineers; So don't feel pressured to not play engineer in order to let more experienced players play as engineer.
• An easy way to spend all your vendor points as engineer is to buy 100 metal, 70 plasteel, and 1 turret and you will only have 1 points remaining
• Pulsing the Contraband wire can give you some goodies. (Removed)
  • Pulsing the Engineer System Vendor gives you the Super Capacity cell with 20000 power.
  • Pulsing the YouTool vendor gives you the high-capacity industrial blowtorch with 80u of fuel. It is unfortunately normal size and can't fit in the toolbelt but can fit in the tool pouch. No longer in YouTool vendors.
  • Pulsing the Autolathe vendor gives you the industrial blowtorch with 40u. Same size as the regular blowtorch.

TGMC Roles
	TerraGov Marines Ranks	Command	Captain, Field Commander, Staff Officer, Pilot Officer, Transport Officer, Mech Pilot
		Vehicle Crew	Assault Crewman, Transport Crewman
		Engineering and Supply	Chief Ship Engineer, Requisitions Officer, Ship Technician
		Medical	Chief Medical Officer, Medical Doctor, Researcher
		Marines	Squad Leader, Squad Smartgunner, Squad Engineer, Squad Corpsman, Squad Marine
		Civilians	Corporate Liaison
		Silicon	Combat robots, Synthetic, AI
	Xenomorphs Playtime	Tier 0	Larva, Minions
		Tier 1	Drone, Runner, Defender, Sentinel
		Tier 2	Hivelord, Carrier, Hunter, Wraith, Bull, Warrior, Puppeteer, Spitter, Pyrogen
		Tier 3	Gorger, Defiler, Widow, Ravager, Warlock, Behemoth, Crusher, Praetorian, Boiler
		Tier 4	Shrike, Queen, King, Hivemind
	Others		Zombie, Emergency Response Teams, Sons of Mars, Survivor