Light · Air · ×12
Rotor
Air swarm
Gun drones that fly over the front line and pick ground armies apart.
- Squad
- ×12
- HP
- 622
- Targets
- Air & ground
Small quad-rotor gun drones in a buzzing cloud. Fragile air chaff.
On the battlefield
The Rotor is air chaff: twelve quad-rotor gun drones that fly over everything. Most of the ground roster cannot shoot up, so a Rotor cloud beats the Skitter, the Ridgeback, the Cutter, the Torch, the Aurochs, the Anvil, the Weaver, the Salvo and the Breaker in the launch tests, and stalls a Landship. The answer is anti-air: Hexguards, Coursers, the Heron, the Mirage and the Dreadnought all clear it, so watch what your opponent buys.
Skitter
Ridgeback
Cutter
Torch
Seraph
Aurochs
Anvil
Weaver
Salvo
Breaker
Hexguard
Courser
Heron
Mirage
DreadnoughtFrom 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 line, so it flies over the clash and reaches the enemy's backline; or as a flank screen that soaks the enemy's anti-air.
Early and late rounds
One of the two starting squads for one commander, and strongest while your opponent has no anti-air. Once they do, it becomes a decoy that soaks anti-air fire for your other flyers.
Techs that change its job
Strafing Run triples the damage against ground and makes it a ground-attack swarm. Shield Cell doubles its staying power with a shield equal to its HP. Long Barrels (+40 m) lets it trade with anti-air from further out.
Anatomy
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Stats
- Deploy cost
- 275
- supply
- Unlock
- 50
- supply, once a match
- Squad
- ×12
- 12 machines
- HP
- 622
- per machine
- Damage
- 202
- per hit
- Attack interval
- 1.4 s
- Squad DPS
- 1,731
- whole squad, before armor
- Range
- 50 m
- Speed
- 16 m/s
- Targets
- Air & ground
- Splash
- None
- Layer
- Air
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Strafing Run | 150 | +200% damage against ground |
| Shield Cell | 150 | A 622-point shield on each machine |
| Long Barrels | 100 | +40 m range |
| Heavy Plating | 100 | +40% HP, blocks 60 damage from every hit |