<lmargin%:5><rmargin%:95><font:Arial Bold:20>Territory Mode

<font:Arial:14>The goal of the territory mode battle in NERO is to capture all the Control Points before the enemy does. In order to do so, you will need to assemble a Platoon of specialists with different kinds of skills. You can do this by selecting "Teams" from the main menu and clicking on "New Platoon" (see the section on creating teams and platoons).

You can start a single player Territory game by configuring a "Sandbox Battle" in the "Single Player" menu. You can also host or join a "Territory" battle on the network in the "Multi-player" menu.

When you enter a Territory Mode battle, you start out by controlling a single factory. Each factory can support up to five robots chosen from your platoon. The objective is to capture all of the factories, including the enemy's. Before clicking "Begin", look around the level to see where the other factories are located. Capturing a new control point will gradually increase your total robot limit by five more robots. Thus, a player with two control points will eventually be able to put up to ten robots on the field.

Since the robots are autonomous, you can only control their actions indirectly. First, you can select different kinds of pre-trained behaviors from your platoon as you produce new robots. Second, you can change which factory a robot sees as its "base" (how this changes the robot's behavior depends on its training). Third, you can disband units to quickly produce them somewhere else or to remove unproductive members of the team from the field.

In order to produce two or three robots, double-click on the top of the factory and select the squad you want to use. It is a good idea to name the squads something that describes their strengths and weaknesses. If you have not reached your limit, the robots will drop down from the dome of the factory.

Initially, your robots will see their home factory as a flag. This means that if you trained them to go to the flag in a similar environment, they will stick together near their home factory. You can change a robot's assigned "flag" factory by dragging a lasso around one or more robots on the ground to select them, and then right-clicking on the target factory. Depending on the training of your robot and on who controls the factory, this can be both a defensive and an aggressive move.

You can disband robots who are not being useful by selecting them and clicking the disband button in the lower left corner of the screen.

Territory games can last for quite a while - there is no time limit, and a tie can be agreed if the two teams are evenly matched.