Synthmetal armor

Synthmetal armor is one of the unit armor types in Alpha Centauri.

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A unit's armor strength determines its combat strength when attacked. The stronger the armor the better the defense.

Chassis types		Infantry · Speeder · Hovertank · Foil · Cruiser · Needlejet · Copter · Gravship · Missile

Reactors		Fission plant · Fusion reactor · Quantum chamber · Singularity engine

Weapons		Hand weapons · Laser · Particle impactor · Gatling laser · Missile launcher · Chaos gun · Fusion laser · Tachyon bolt · Plasma shard · Quantum laser · Graviton gun · Singularity laser · Resonance laser · Resonance bolt · String disruptor · Psi attack

Missile payloads		Conventional payload · Tectonic payload · Fungal payload · Planet buster

Equipment		Colony module · Terraforming unit · Troop transport · Supply transport · Probe team gear

Armor		No armor · Synthmetal armor · Plasma steel armor · Silksteel armor · Photon wall · Probability sheath · Neutronium armor · Antimatter plate · Stasis generator · Psi defense · Pulse 3 armor · Resonance 3 armor · Pulse 8 armor · Resonance 8 armor

Special abilities		Super former · Deep radar · Cloaking device · Amphibious pods · Drop pods · Air superiority · Deep pressure hull · Carrier deck · AAA tracking · Comm jammer · Antigrav struts · Empath song · Polymorphic encryption · Fungicide tanks · High morale · Heavy artillery · Clean reactor · Blink displacer · Hypnotic trance · Nerve gas pods · Repair bay · Non-lethal methods · Soporific gas pods · Dissociative wave · Marine detachment · Fuel nanocells · Algorithmic enhancement

Intrinsic unit types

Colonist		Colony pod Formers · Probe team · Scout patrol · Sea escape pod · Sea former · Supply crawler · Transport foil · Unity foil · Unity gunship · Unity mining laser · Unity rover · Unity scout chopper

Chiron and Progenitor		Alien artifact · Battle Ogre Mk1 · Battle Ogre Mk2 · Battle Ogre Mk3 · Fungal tower · Isle of the Deep · Locusts of Chiron · Mind worms · Sealurk · Spore launcher ·