The developer described this faction on 3 June 2026 as “the starting faction that exists in the gray zones of the global map, primarily focused on light and fast units.” Confirmed by that announcement. In the game’s own faction table it is recorded as AI_Renegades, and the link is not a guess: the record points directly at its own barracks, generator, factory and silo, all carrying the same prefix.
It is the leanest of the three fighting factions. Nine units against the Empire’s twenty-eight, and eight buildings against twenty-two. Its cheapest unit is the Unicycle T-2 at 50 minerals; its most expensive is the Mobile home at 650, which is less than the Empire’s Dreadnought and half the price of a mutant Giant. There is no equivalent of a super-heavy anywhere in the list.
What the roster does have is improvisation. Assault Trucks, a Pickup, a Battle Ball, sound artillery, an old tank — the naming alone tells you the design intent, and it matches the description: these are not a manufactured army, they are what was available. The toughest thing they field is the Mobile home at 2 500 hit points, which is a vehicle you live in rather than a tank.
Their best sustained anti-vehicle output is roughly 56 damage per second — derived from the game files — against 125 for the Empire’s Dreadnought and 76 for the mutant Cerberus. That is the whole strategic picture in one number: the Rebels cannot win a stand-up armoured fight against either of the other two.
What they can do is arrive early and cheaply, and that is how the demo uses them. Against a Rebel opponent, the mistake is preparing for a late-game army that never comes.
When the game builds a base for this side, it does not improvise. The faction record fixes 8 kinds of building and a count for each, so an established base holds between 19 and 25 structures: Ball silos (5 to 6), Processing plant (2 to 3), Militants’ hut (3 to 4), Engine shop (2 to 3), Aircraft pit (2), Repair site (1), Antiaircraft gun (3 to 4) and Strange anti-aircraft gun (1 to 2). Read from build 23882143. And it does not build all of that itself: Processing plant and Strange anti-aircraft gun are borrowed outright from another side’s list — the Empire list and the Mutants list. ⭐ That is not a guess about lore, it is what the record points at.
The same record also holds this side’s scripted attacks, and they are not random. There are 6 of them, 36 units in total, the smallest fielding 5 and the largest 9, and one of them sits behind a difficulty threshold. The heaviest is worth knowing by heart: 3 Rafa, 3 Unicycle T-2 and 3 Pickup. Read from build 23882143. ⛔ The file also stores a warning message for each wave, but it is written in raw Russian rather than through the game’s own translation table, so we do not claim it is what an English player sees.
Values read from game files · version 23882143
