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Special Equipment Characteristics and Types

Special Equipment items are special issue kits recovered from the battlefield that can be used to improve various attributes of your Base and Unit performance. Fight enemies or capture and control Equipment Depots to acquire Special Equipment. Build an Armory to test, store, and integrate the items you recover into your fighting forces. Build the Radar and Tracking Centers to manage strategic Resource and Equipment Depots in your area of operations.

Special Equipment can have several different attributes: some offer Offensive or Defensive bonuses to different units, while others improve the performance characteristics of your Base (Resource production, Defense bonuses, etc.)

To integrate a Special Equipment item, place it into any open Engagement Slot at your Armory's Workshop. You have 6 Engagement Slots total, and can use no more than two items of Equipment of the same category simultaneously. For example: at any one time you may use 2 Offensive Equipment items, 2 Defensive Equipment items, and 2 Production Equipment items.

All Special Equipment can be either Permanent or Temporary. You can disengage and drag activated Permanent Equipment back to the Equipment Locker at any time for later use, but Temporary Equipment are consumable items active for only a fixed period of time – once engaged, they can't be moved back to the Equipment Locker. If you exchange one activated Temporary Equipment for a new one, the old one will automatically be deleted.

Special Equipment is categorized as either Standard Issue or Experimental based on their relative strength and stability. Standard Issue Equipment possesses small, but stable effects. Experimental Equipment has both strong positive and negative effects. The strength of a Special Equipment Item's attributes is proportional to its rarity (Commercial, Limited, Restricted, Classified, and Prototype). The harder it is to find, the stronger its effect.

You can sell Special Equipment you don't want to use for Resources. In order to do so, go to the Armory, select a Special Equipment item you would like to sell, and click the "Sell" button. Note that you cannot sell a temporary Special Equipment item that has been activated.

How do I get Special Equipment?

There are many ways for you to pick up Special Equipment items in Soldiers Inc. The easiest is by fighting with other Bases or Zheng Shi Locations. You have a chance at recovering a Special Equipment item from every battle. To see if you've received an item, open your combat reports to view the description of your prize in the top window. You have a chance to claim new Equipment regardless of the outcome of an engagement, but remember: You only have 48 hours after recovering a Special Equipment item to visit your Armory and either use it or move it from the Armory's Testing Lab to its Equipment Locker. Failure to do so will result in the permanent loss of the Special Equipment item. You can go to the Armory interface directly from your combat report.

You may also recover Special Equipment by capturing and controlling Equipment Depots on the game map. They essentially function like a normal Depot. Capture one and control it for at least 1 hour before attempting to search for Special Equipment. After the first hour, you can begin your search for the Equipment by clicking the "Search" button.

The longer you occupy an Equipment Depot, the higher your chances of successfully recovering Special Equipment items with each attempt. You are allowed one search attempt per hour. Once you've successfully recovered Equipment, you will receive a report.

To engage a Special Equipment Item, place it into any open Engagement Slot at your Armory's Workshop. You have 6 Engagement Slots total, and can use no more than two items of Equipment of the same category simultaneously. For example: at any one time you may use 2 Offensive Equipment items, 2 Defensive Equipment Items, and 2 Production Equipment items.

All Special Equipment can be either Permanent or Temporary. You can disengage and drag activated Permanent Equipment back to the Equipment Locker at any time for later use, but Temporary Equipment are consumable items active for only a fixed period of time – once engaged, they can't be moved back to the Equipment Locker. If you exchange one engaged Temporary Equipment item for a new one, the old one will automatically be deleted.