Clone Rifleman

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"1...2...wait what? These Riflemen multiply after being destroyed up to two times. Each clone is slightly weaker and deals less damage than the Rifleman before him."

Summary

• The Clone Rifleman is unlocked after building the Proto Troop Workshop.
• The Clone Rifleman is a Prototype Troop with identical behavior to the standard Rifleman.
• When destroyed, the Clone Rifleman splits into two clones, which produce two more when those clones are destroyed. Clones have weaker stats than their predecessors.
• Clone Rifleman behaves identically to a Rifleman. However, spawned clones are not affected by Flares or any form of healing.
• The Clone Riflemen first appeared in Warships Season 13.

Visual Appearance

• The Clone Riflemen appears as a normal Rifleman; a fair-skinned man with a blue uniform, simple boots, and a grayish-green helmet with a blue cloth band around it with a red ace of diamonds tucked into it.
• Their clones are identical, but with a purple tint, resembling troops spawned via Second Wind/Remote Defib.

Offensive Strategy

• Clone Riflemen are effective when deployed in large numbers, as they can be used effectively in the same way as Rifleman. Despite boasting weak stats on clones, each Clone Rifleman essentially equates to having 4 units for just one housing space, making them deadly versus single-target defenses like Boom Cannons.
• Another great strategy is Clone Rifle-Medic. Clone Riflemen have moderate health, so Medics will be able to heal up most of the damage that the Clone Riflemen take from splash damage defenses. Medics' healing does have a splash effect, so they can heal Clone Riflemen faster than any other unit (though high-level defenses can eventually overpower the healing).
• A third popular strategy with Clone riflemen is the Clone Rifle-Zooka strategy. This strategy is very weak to splash defenses due to the high amount of troops and relatively low health per troop, but this is a devastating tactic when combined with high-level Medkits and/or Medics or when used against a base with low level or at least very few splash defenses. Using Smoke Screens can also help to flank the Clone Riflemen and Zookas around defenses and to the Headquarters.
• Clone Riflemen are weak against Machine Guns, Mortars, Flamethrowers, Rocket Launchers and Shock Launchers as these defenses are multi-target, meaning that they excel at damaging groups of enemies.
• You can allow Clone Riflemen to spread out as much as possible to minimize the effect of these defenses. However, spreading out too much will expose them to fire from too many defenses!
• Due to their large numbers and short range, Clone Riflemen can be used to protect Tanks from Cannons and Boom Cannons.
• Use a Barrage on large groups of Mines to prevent them from killing your Clone Riflemen quickly. If you have Critters, it can be a good alternative if Barrage gets too expensive.

Defensive Strategy

• A group of Clone Riflemen's worst enemy is the Rocket Launcher, so place it well behind other defenses.
• The Mortar is effective in taking out large numbers of Riflemen, but it fires very slowly. Having a Machine Gun in front of a Mortar will cause the Clone Riflemen to target the Machine Gun, giving the Mortar more time to fire at the Clone Riflemen.
• Place the Mortar behind various buildings so that it is difficult for the Clone Riflemen to reach the Mortar without having any casualties, the same goes for any other slow-firing defense.
• Clone Riflemen are vulnerable to fast firing defenses such as Sniper Towers, Machine Guns, and Flamethrowers, so place them strategically.
• Cannons and Boom Cannons can easily one-shot kill Clone Riflemen but can be swarmed by large groups of Clone Riflemen so be sure protect them with Sniper Towers, Machine Guns, Flamethrowers, Rocket Launchers or Shock Launchers.
• Place your Mines well. Groups of them can kill Clone Riflemen quickly if the attacker ignores them.
• Some very good Prototype Defenses against Clone Riflemen include Shock Blasters, Hot Pots, Microwav'rs and Flotsam Cannons. All of these are capable of defeating hordes of Clone Riflemen quickly, but they can also prove to be prime targets for Shock Bombs.

Trivia

• You can have a maximum of 248 Clone Riflemen in a complete set of fully upgraded Landing Crafts.
• You can effectively have a total of 992 Clone Riflemen on the battlefield. The initial 248 die to spawn 496 clones and those clones die to spawn another 992.
• Along with the Undercover Rifleman and the Seeker, the Clone Rifleman was one of the first Proto Troops available in the Bunker during Warships Season 78.
• Because of a bug, the Clone Rifleman started out at a higher level than the other Proto Troops after the introduction of the Proto Troop Workshop.

Statistics

Unit Size	Training Time (Warships)	Workshop Training Time	Movement Speed	Range	Attack Speed	Headquarters Level Required
1	30s	30min	Moderate / 220	Medium / 4.7 Tiles	1s	11

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Level	Hitpoints	DPS	Hitpoints (Secondary)	DPS (Secondary)	Hitpoints (Tertiary)	DPS (Tertiary)	Hitpoints (Total)*	Training Cost	Workshop level required	Upgrade Cost in Proto Tokens	Upgrade time
1	140	30	105	22	79	16	666	50	1	N/A	N/A
2	150	32	112	24	84	18	710	65	1	70	2h
3	160	35	120	26	90	19	760	90	1	80	2h
4	172	38	129	28	97	21	818	120	1	90	2h
5	184	41	138	31	104	23	876	155	1	110	3h
6	197	44	147	33	110	25	931	205	1	120	3h
7	210	48	157	36	118	27	996	275	1	140	3h
8	225	52	169	39	127	29	1,071	370	1	170	4h
9	241	56	181	42	136	31	1,147	490	1	190	4h
10	258	61	193	46	145	34	1,224	650	1	220	4h
11	276	66	206	49	155	37	1,308	860	1	270	5h
12	295	71	221	53	166	40	1,401	1,150	2	340	6h
13	315	77	236	58	177	43	1,495	1,520	3	420	7h
14	337	84	253	63	190	47	1,603	2,000	4	510	8h
15	361	90	271	68	203	51	1,715	2,700	5	630	9h
16	386	98	290	74	217	55	1,834	3,600	6	780	10h
17	413	106	310	80	232	60	1,961	4,750	7	960	11h
18	442	115	332	86	249	65	2,102	6,300	8	1,200	13h
19	473	124	355	93	266	70	2,247	8,400	9	1,500	15h
20	506	134	380	101	284	75	2,402	11,200	10	1,800	17h
21	542	145	407	109	305	82	2,576	14,800	11	2,300	21h
22	580	157	435	118	326	88	2,754	19,700	12	3,100	1d 1h
23	621	170	465	128	350	96	2,951	26,200	13	4,000	1d 6h
24	664	184	497	138	372	103	3,146	34,800	14	5,300	1d 12h
25	711	199	530	149	397	112	3,359	46,000	15	6,900	1d 23h
26	761	215	564	161	423	121	3,581	62,000	16	9,100	2d 4h
27	814	233	606	175	452	131	3,834	82,000	17	11,900	2d 14h
28	871	252	649	189	484	142	4,105	108,000	18	15,600	3d 3h

Level	Hitpoints	DPS	Hitpoints (Secondary)	DPS (Secondary)	Hitpoints (Tertiary)	DPS (Tertiary)	Hitpoints (Total)*	Training Cost	Upgrade Cost in Proto Tokens
12	295	71	221	53	166	40	1,401	600	N/A
13	315	77	236	58	177	43	1,495	700	250
14	337	84	253	63	190	47	1,603	800	350
15	361	90	271	68	203	51	1,715	900	450
16	386	98	290	74	217	55	1,834	1,000	550
17	413	106	310	80	232	60	1,961	1,100	650
18	442	115	332	86	249	65	2,102	1,200	750
19	473	124	355	93	266	70	2,247	1,300	850
20	506	134	380	101	284	75	2,402	1,400	950
21	542	145	407	109	305	82	2,576	1,500	1,050
22	580	157	435	118	326	88	2,754	1,600	1,150
23	620	170	465	128	350	96	2,95	1,700	1,250
24	662	184	497	138	372	103	3,144	1,800	1,350
25	706	199	530	149	397	112	3,354	1,900	1,450
26	752	215	564	161	423	121	3,572	2,000	1,500
27	808	233	606	175	452	131	3,828	2,100	1,500
28	865	252	649	189	484	142	4,099	2,200	1,500

*Total Health refers to the combined hitpoints of a unit and all of its clones that appear after death.

Warships

Rank	Level	Reserves Size	Upgrade Tokens	Tech Level
1	14	224	N/A	5
2	16	272	58,000	10
3	18	320	84,500	15
4	20	368	112,500	20
5	22	416	165,000	25
Total			420,000	75