Granger

The Granger is the alien team’s builder class. Primary Attack will bring up a menu of structures available for building. After selecting a structure a glowing outline of it will appear. When this outline is green you can use the Primary Attack button to place it. The outline changes to red when the structure cannot be placed in its current location. To cancel placing the structure press the Secondary Attack button. To remove a placed structure use the Deconstruct Structure button. After building or deconstructing a structure a timer will appear in the lower right corner of the screen. Until this timer expires you cannot create or destroy another building. Granger is the only class that can use a Hovel.

At stage two its advanced form becomes avaliable: Advanced Granger.

Granger Strategies

 * First of all, grangers can't attack, until they grow to their advanced form, that is, and even then they should avoid combat. So, whenever there are humans charging into base, there are a couple of things you can do (sorted by priority):
 * 1) Call the team for help (first thing to do when you see a red spot on the edge of the screen)
 * 2) Hide (until the coast is clear)
 * 3) Run away (when the rushers are too strong and a new base should be constructed elsewhere)
 * 4) Evolve and defend (last resort, if you intend to continue building)
 * For building strategies see: Alien Building
 * When the game enters Sudden Death you should avoid using a granger, unless you need to rebuild the Overmind
 * A granger brings more money to humans then a Dretch, so you should always try your best not to get killed
 * Grangers are often teamkilled by bigger alien classes, since they are big and slow and get in the way quite easily, but since they are free, there is rarely a need to get annoyed over it
 * Don't forget that once you evolve to an offensive alien class, there is no going back to being granger until you get killed. So, do all you can to upgrade the base before you evolve and start rushing

Granger Killing Strategies

 * Grangers are harmless, pricey, slow, fat and weak, so there should be no problems in getting rid of them
 * Usually, where there are grangers, there is an alien base, so keep that in mind when scouting enemy positions
 * A lone granger near your base could mean that there are other aliens nearby, so don't just charge out to kill it unprepared