Heavy · Ground · ×1
Bombard
Siege walker, huge-splash plasma cannon
A low six-legged siege walker with one huge plasma cannon along its back.
- HP
- 18,632
- Damage
- 10,650
- Range
- 100 m
A low six-legged siege walker with one huge plasma cannon along its back. Outriggers brace it for longer range.
On the battlefield
The Bombard is a siege gun on legs: one plasma shell every 4.5 s that hits everything within 15 m of where it lands, out to 100 m. In the launch tests it beats the Hexguard, Ridgeback, Courser, Cutter, Torch, Anvil, Weaver and Templar: anything that bunches up or walks slowly into its shells. It can't shoot air, so Rotors, Mirages and Seraphs beat it, and anything that closes fast (Skitters) or outranges it (the Heron, the Salvo) does too.
Hexguard
Ridgeback
Courser
Cutter
Torch
Anvil
Weaver
Templar
Aegis
Tempest
Sunspire
Skitter
Needle
Rotor
Heron
Mirage
Seraph
Aurochs
Salvo
Rampart
Citadel
Landship
Dreadnought
ArchangelFrom equal-supply battles of each pair at 400, 800 and 1,600 supply (no techs, 20 seeds each). Real armies mix units, so read these as tendencies.
Where to deploy
Behind your front line, centred on where the enemy's ground army will bunch up: one shell hits everything within 15 m of where it lands. Keep something in front of it; at 7 m/s it can't escape anything that reaches it, and it can't shoot air.
Early and late rounds
A heavy with a small unlock (50): a mid-game buy once the enemy commits to massed ground units or slow heavies, and a late-game anchor with Outriggers.
Techs that change its job
Outriggers brace it for a 200 m reach at 40% less damage a shell, but it can't hit anything inside 75 m, so it needs a screen. Focus Fire cuts the reload from 4.5 to 3.5 s and adds 30 m for a tighter 7 m splash. Acid Shell leaves a corroding pool for 18 s that eats 3% of max HP a second and makes everything in it take +150% damage. Long Barrels (+40 m) and Heavy Plating (+40% HP, 60 off each hit) are the plain upgrades.
Anatomy
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Stats
- Deploy cost
- 215
- supply
- Unlock
- 50
- supply, once a match
- Squad
- ×1
- one machine
- HP
- 18,632
- per machine
- Damage
- 10,650
- per hit
- Attack interval
- 4.5 s
- Squad DPS
- 2,367
- whole squad, before armor
- Range
- 100 m
- Speed
- 7 m/s
- Targets
- Ground
- Splash
- 15 m
- radius
- Layer
- Ground
- Footprint
- 3×3
- tiles of 10 m
Level 1, no techs. Distances in metres (one board tile is 10 m).
Techs
| Tech | Cost | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Acid Shell | 250 | Leaves corroding acid (15 m radius for 18 s: eats 3% of max HP a second, +150% damage taken) where it hits |
| Outriggers | 250 | Range 100 m → 200 m, can't hit inside 75 m, −40% damage per hit |
| Focus Fire | 200 | Range 100 m → 130 m, attack interval 4.5 → 3.5 s, splash radius 7 m |
| Long Barrels | 150 | +40 m range |
| Heavy Plating | 200 | +40% HP, blocks 60 damage from every hit |