Tactics | The Goo Grey Goo Guide

Last update: 11 May 2016

Be mobile. Mother Goo and all of the building units of the Goo are mobile. Both the Mother and some of your troops are capable of going over mountains. Use this to your advantage. Position your artillery out of reach of the enemy. Retreat with Mother Goo from those of the places, which you cannot hold. Capture resource deposits, at the enemy's back and prepare your army for attack there. Move Proteans to the enemy's back and turn them into units there. Distract the enemy with attacks, deploy Proteans at the back of his base, turn them into combat units and attack. Use to your advantage the fact that you can quickly get to any location, around the map.

Be flexible. You can use all of the construction units of the Goo later on. Do not turn them into combat units straight away. Wait for the enemy to take action and match your action with his. The downside of this tactic is that the newly-created units are not in full health. The upside is the option to create units that are best-fitted for dealing with the incoming threat.

Use Mother Goo in combat. Mother Goo attacks everything in its closest proximity. The destroyed units are then consumed for resources. While attacking enemy positions, take one, or two Mother Goos along. They will e highly useful, while destroying enemy fortifications and big groups of enemy units. With a good supply of health points, they can even create new units in the battlefield. Remember to ensure them with protection, especially AA defenses. Mother Goo is easy to destroy.

For this reason, it is best to deploy them into battle with their health points pool full. Thanks to this, not only will they survive for longer, but also will be able to create new Mother Goos and Proteans in order to replace the destroyed ones.

Flood the enemy with your armies. Goo can quickly produce lots of lightweight units. If the enemy has no artillery, or other units capable of AoE attacks, this will pose quite a problem for him. Especially if you staccer your units and start attacking him from all sides at once. This way, you will be able to win at an early stage. Later on, numbers cease to matter that much and quality of units it becomes more important.

Combine Mother Goo with Purger. The superunit attacks the enemy forces and, at the same time, it heals Mother Goo. Mother Goo, thanks to the health points it obtained, creates Proteans, that then turn into combat units. A big group of Mother Goos, in combination with Purgers is, therefore, a self-sufficient combat unit. This tactic requires you to keep the superunit alive, which may be a problem, in the case of enemies that rely on air forces.