Clone Commanders can be used to camp next to Ammo Droids and dish out their area buffers to nearby allies.

Clone Commanders can indeed serve as a temporary defense, i.e defending a chokepoint near a friendly Command Post.

Commanders are more suited to flanking an offence or going in the middle and using its area buff, which reduces damage.

The Commander has low speed, so using it to spearhead an offensive is be impractical.

However, it takes a second to spin up and start firing, so enemies can use that to their advantage. It can mow down entire groups of enemies and can even cause panic.

The Chaingun which the Commander carries is a rapid-fire weapon and is one of the most powerful weapons in the game against infantry.

While this unit gives an advantage in both offence and defence, the Clone Commander is more of an offensive-oriented unit.

The phase II variant, from all Battlefront II maps. This is consistent with all Commander and Special classes in the game.You have to get 8 points before playing as this unit. The Clone Commander class also has a limit of four units in-game at any one time. The ability to rally nearby units and empower them with a temporary defense increase is an invaluable asset in a heated firefight. They can self destruct to harm or destroy nearby droids, clearing the way for clones. Other weapons include a recon droid, allowing surveillance of the battlefield from a safe distance. The commander is very useful against Droidekas as the Chaingun can make short work of both the shield and the Droideka itself. The amount of time it takes for the weapon to charge up, however, makes it difficult for the Clone Commander to survive an ambush, (for which reason they are equipped also with a standard Republic issue DC-15s blaster pistol for self-defense) but does afford him superiority over enemy infantry in normal combat. Clone Commanders are equipped with a large, shoulder-worn Z-6 Chaingun, and even though they take a moment to charge up and will overheat after prolonged firing, they release a dense stream of blaster bolts that few enemies can withstand. The Clone Commander (officially named the Galactic Marine in the Star Wars universe) is one of the two special units available only to the Galactic Republic, and serves as the Officer Class unit for the Republic.

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