Vehicles and Starships
In all environments, Invid tactics emphasize swarm tactics over concentrated firepower. To that end, their fleets consist primarily of troop carriers, unarmed but capable of holding hundreds of Scouts (better suited for space combat) as well as compliments of Shock Troopers (typically deployed for ground operations). These clam-like troop carriers appear frequently in the New Generation episodes of Robotech as well as in the Shadow Chronicles movie. Significantly, they are the only space vessels shown to be employed by the Regis' forces.
Both the limited footage available from the Sentinels and Prelude to the Shadow Chronicles comic depict another Invid vessel, much larger than the troop carriers and vaguely scorpion-shaped. This vessel is shown to be not only armed but sufficiently powerful as to nearly destroy the SDF-3, suggesting that it would be at least a match for (and possibly superior to) a Zentraedi flagship. While earlier material from the Sentinels sourcebook by Palladium Books suggests that there may have been hundreds of these scorpion vessels, the canon material implies that the vessel is uniquely the flagship of the Invid Regent and has no equivalents.
Invid generally exist within their mecha and do not use vehicles as such. One exception is a ramming-effect "speeder" shown in the Sentinels footage as being used by the Regent's Red Enforcers during the attack on Tirol; whether this vehicle is considered canonical is unclear, and it appears to have been a limited-scope weapon in any event.
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