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==== A smart hive mind will not just slam everything into one mega-kaiju and call it a day. It’ll do this: ====
# Far away: - Stay more dispersed, harder to hit cleanly. - Use dodging to minimize your AOE efficiency.
# Approaching mid-range: - Start forming local combines: - 100-hit clumps → 1000-hit frontline units. - Surround 10k/1000-hit cores with 100-hit shells.
# At the “wall” of your kill-zone: - Use big combined tanks as: - Shields, - Anchors, - Distraction targets. - Let 100-hit “normals” slip past flanks and angles where your fire is thinner.
# If a breach opens: - Rapidly recombine near the breach to create: - Shock troops (high HP, high survivability), - Maybe even sacrificing small units to build a giant that can ram your gun platforms.

So combining becomes their tool to shape where the real danger is, not something they spam everywhere all the time.