Cryoneer

Summary

• The Cryoneer is unlocked at Headquarters level 20, making it the ninth troop to unlock, and currently the last one to be unlocked.
• It shoots Freeze Beams from a moderate range with a beam-rake effect similar to a Lazor Beam, slowing any defenses and troops that come in its way, also dealing low damage to buildings.
  • They do not deal damage to troops.
  • The firing rate of frozen enemy turrets is reduced by 50%.
• Unlike other area-of-effect troops such as the Grenadier their weapons do not trigger Mines.

Offensive Strategy

• Cryoneers will spread themselves out to cover as many targets as possible, and they will periodically switch targets in battle.
• Due to their low damage per second, they are not recommended to be used alone. Combine them with Zookas or other high-damage troops to alleviate this.
• Since they slow down the firing rate of enemy turrets effectively dropping their damage output by a percentage instead of a raw number, they are endlessly useful for supporting other troop formations like Heavy-Zooka even on bases with very high damage boosts like Gearheart or upper-level Operation bases, unlike Medics whose raw-point-value healing effect gets quickly overpowered in these situations. The Heavy-Zooka-Cryo formation is very, very effective.

Defensive Strategy

• Cryoneers have moderate health so a Cannon or Boom Cannon can take her down in one shot if it is high-leveled.
• Due to this moderate amount of health, a few salvos from a Rocket Launcher or a few shots from Mortars may also work on wiping out a few Cryoneers at once.
• Avoid clustering defenses whenever possible because this provides Cryoneers the opportunity to freeze more defenses at once.

Upgrade Differences

• There are no visual changes between levels, but each upgrade increases the Cryoneer's hitpoints (by 9%), DPS (by 5%), range (by about half a tile) and training cost (by 1000 gold).

Trivia

• According to a Loading Screen Hint, the Cryoneer's freeze ray was developed using technology from Dr. T's Cryo Bomb.
• They are currently the fastest-firing troop. However, this only accounts for when the beam is being shot. There is an approximate 3.5 second delay in between attacks.
• The name 'Cryoneer' may be a pun of 'Cryo' (the Greek prefix for "cold") and either 'Engineer' or 'Pioneer'.
• The Cryoneer has dozens of catchphrases which can be viewed by tapping her info button in the Armory or Landing Craft. Almost every single one of these is either a reference, a pun, or both. They include, but are not limited to the following:

• The Cryoneer is the most expensive troop to fill up a fully upgraded set of Landing Craft (672,000 gold for maximum level Cryoneers; maximum level Grenadiers' 608,000 is a close second).
• The Cryoneer is the only troop to have multiple catchphrases.

Statistics

Unit Size	Training Time	Movement Speed	Attack Range	Attack Speed	Splash Radius	Speed Reduction	Freeze Duration	Headquarters Level Required
4	8m	Moderate / 250	Medium / 6 Tiles	12 freezing pulses every 0.075s then 2s reload	1 Tile	50%	5s	20

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Level	Hitpoints	DPS	Damage per Shot	Beam Extension	Training Cost	Research Cost	Armory	Research Time	Instant	XP Gain
1	700	30	7.12	0	7,000	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
2	763	31	7.5	1	8,000	7,400,000	20	4d 4h	2,435	100
3	832	33	7.87	2	9,000	7,600,000	20	4d 6h	2,480	101
4	907	35	8.25	3	10,000	7,800,000	20	4d 8h	2,523	102
5	988	36	8.62	4	11,000	8,000,000	20	4d 10h	2,567	104
6	1,077	38	9.07	5	12,000	8,200,000	20	4d 12h	2,610	106
7	1,174	40	9.52	6	13,000	8,400,000	21	4d 14h	2,654	108
8	1,280	42	10.05	7	14,000	8,600,000	22	4d 16h	2,699	110