Fighter

Combat role

Generic multi-role air unit — high mobility and range cover multiple tiles in a single turn.

Lore

Fighters are the rare airframe every faction licenses, modifies, and paints in national colors. After Military L4, the sky stops being decorative terrain and becomes a parallel highway: Fighters skip ridges that stall ground columns, punish exposed MobileGroups, and trade with each other in brief, costly duels.

They are not stealth platforms or science scouts — they are workhorse interceptors and strike assets. Losing air parity does not instantly lose the map, but it means every coastal stack and artillery park sleeps worse at night.

When to use

Use Fighters to intercept enemy air, strike mobile ground columns, or project power across terrain that ground units cannot cross quickly.

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