Light · Ground · ×12
Courser
Fast hover missile skimmers
Twelve fast hover skimmers whose twin micro-missile launchers hunt flyers and raid the backline.
- Squad
- ×12
- Range
- 95 m
- Speed
- 16 m/s
A small, low, fast hover skimmer: a lean arrowhead hull on four hover pods, with one low turret carrying twin rapid-fire micro-missile launchers that raise to fire at air.
On the battlefield
Coursers are fast hover skimmers whose twin launchers pour a stream of small, fast micro-missiles into air and ground targets at 95 m, more reach than any other chaff. They are a mobile anti-air screen: in the launch tests they beat the Rotor, the Mirage and the Seraph, and from 800 supply up they bring down the Dreadnought. They also beat the Hexguard, the Heron and the Salvo. Each missile is light, so armor shrugs them off (Aurochs, Anvil, Weaver, Breaker), and splash units and Skitter swarms catch them when they close.
Hexguard
Rotor
Heron
Mirage
Seraph
Salvo
Skitter
Ridgeback
Cutter
Torch
Aurochs
Anvil
Weaver
Breaker
LandshipFrom 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
On a flank, where their 16 m/s lets them swing round to the enemy's artillery and air, or behind the front line as anti-air cover.
Early and late rounds
One of the two starting squads for one commander. A strong opening raid, and a late-game answer to flyers and titans in the air.
Techs that change its job
AA Targeting doubles the damage against air and makes it a dedicated flyer killer. Point Defense shoots down incoming missiles and rockets around the squad, a shield against Salvo rockets. Frag Rounds adds a little splash for chaff fights.
Anatomy
Drag, hover and tap the parts. Open it full screen.
Stats
- Deploy cost
- 200
- supply
- Unlock
- Free
- unlocked from the start
- Squad
- ×12
- 12 machines
- HP
- 686
- per machine
- Damage
- 36
- per hit
- Attack interval
- 0.4 s
- Squad DPS
- 1,080
- whole squad, before armor
- Range
- 95 m
- Speed
- 16 m/s
- Targets
- Air & ground
- Splash
- None
- Layer
- Ground
- Footprint
- 5×2
- tiles of 10 m
Level 1, no techs. Distances in metres (one board tile is 10 m).
Techs
| Tech | Cost | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Point Defense | 150 | Shoots down incoming missiles and rockets within 36 m, once every 1 s |
| Frag Rounds | 150 | Splash radius 5 m |
| AA Targeting | 150 | +100% damage against air |
| Long Barrels | 100 | +40 m range |
| Heavy Plating | 100 | +40% HP, blocks 60 damage from every hit |