Gunboat

"The Gunboat provides fire support and battlefield supplies to your troops. It can also relay movement orders with Flares. Upgrade your Headquarters to access new Gunboat abilities, and upgrade the Gunboat to increase its Energy capacity."


Level 1	Level 2-3	Level 4-5	Level 6-7	Level 8-9	Level 10-14


Level 15-16	Level 17	Level 18-20	Level 21	Level 22-27

Summary

The Gunboat begins with a set amount of energy (depends on Gunboat level and Statues).
- Firing Gunboat Weaponry, using Hero Abilities and deploying certain types of troops require energy. The former two have set increments for each use, and the latter expends energy per unit deployed.
- All building destroyed on the battlefield give back 3 each.
- There is a scheduled time when Temporary Gunboat Abilities are available to use.
Starting at level 10, the Gunboat allows two different troop loadouts to be saved and named, with more available at levels 13, 16, 19, 21, 23 and 26 respectively for a total of eight.

Upgrade Differences

Initially, the Gunboat is a small blue-and-white ship with a wooden deck. There is a turret at the bow and a conning tower in the middle. A small blue fin-like propeller is seen. Under the bow, an anchor can be seen.
At level 2, a rope is added connecting the top of the conning tower to the stern. The conning tower is enlarged, and the entire boat is lengthened. The rails on top of the tower turn white. The top post turns yellow. The turret gains a slight redesign.
At level 4, a turret is added to the stern. The conning tower is reinforced and further expanded. The rope connecting the conning tower to the stern is removed. The entire boat also gets wider. The top of the post turns blue-gray. A ladder is added just behind the cabin. The propeller is removed.
At level 6, the conning tower is further enlarged and heightened. The rear turret is enlarged. The boat also gets slightly larger. Ladder-like rungs are added on the back of the tower.
At level 8, the wooden deck is replaced by a metal plated deck. The conning tower is enlarged again, and an balcony is added to the back. The forward turret gains another barrel and is redesigned again. The ladder on the back is replaced with a window and a balcony.
At level 10, two dual-barrel rocket launchers are added to the back of the conning tower. The rope connecting the top of the conning tower to the stern returns. The balcony's rails become blue. The post's top gains a slight red tint.
At level 15, the conning tower is entirely covered in steel plate armor, with the windows becoming light blue. The deck is replaced with smooth metal. The sides of the boat are changed to unpainted metal armor. The rear turret gains another barrel. The rope connecting the conning tower to the stern is removed. The boat also gets slightly larger. The post becomes gray. The window and balcony are removed. Also, the anchor is slightly enlarged.
At level 17, a secondary tower is added between the rocket launchers, which are replaced by blue, rectangular, six-barrel launchers resembling level 6 Rocket Launchers. A rope connects the two towers.
At level 18, a radar dish, similar to the level 9 and above Radar, is added to the top of the conning tower. The muzzles of the rocket launchers are painted yellow. The top of the posts on both towers become bright red.
At level 21, the Gunboat gains a new dark blue hull as well as a revamped exterior appearance, and its turrets and rocket launchers become larger and gray. The rope is removed.
At level 22, the barrels of the turrets are fused into a single large one. Yellow markings appear on the turrets.

Weaponry

There are seven different types of weaponry that your Gunboat can fire.
Find more information about each type of weaponry in the Gunboat Weaponry pages.

Weaponry	Brief Description	Requirement
Artillery	A single shot that damages enemy Buildings and triggers Mines	HQ level 1
Flare	Once one lands temporarily on the battlefield, Troops move towards it but cannot attack while doing so. If it hits a building, troops will walk to it until they are in range to attack it.	HQ level 3
Medkit	Creates a temporary ring of healing that restores the health of Troops within its area of effect	HQ level 4
Shock Bomb	Temporarily prevents enemy Defensive Buildings within its area of effect from firing, but does nothing to Mines	HQ level 7
Barrage	A volley of 15 smaller shots that damage enemy Buildings and trigger Mines in a small area	HQ level 10
Smoke Screen	Troops within its area of effect cannot be attacked by enemy Defensive Buildings but cannot attack either	HQ level 14
Critters	A cluster of small blue robots that can distract enemy Defensive Buildings and trigger Mines	HQ level 19

Skins

Name	Description	Unlocking	Cost
Default	Your original look. A familiar and timeless classic.	-	-
Boaty Gunboat	A round, friendly gunboat. Just ignore the guns.	Boom Pass Season 3 2,600 Mission Points	1,500
Battleship	When you need to bring more Boom.	Boom Pass Season 5 50 Mission Points	1,500
Haunted	The ship may be ethereal but the munitions are very real.	Boom Pass Season 8 2,600 Mission Points	1,500
Swan	Sometimes camouflaging the gunboat goes to far.	Boom Pass Season 12 2,600 Mission Points	-

Trivia

It takes anywhere from less than a second to three seconds for the various weaponry to reach their designated location depending on how far the Gunboat is from the target.
Barring any Tribe boosts, the maximum possible amount of energy a player can have at the start of an attack is 312. They would have to have a level 26 Gunboat, the best Gunboat Energy Masterpiece, and 11 Guardians boosted with Power Powder.
- Under the same conditions except without any boosted statues, the maximum possible energy is 184.
At Gunboat levels 1-3, you can see the word "REEF" on its stern, which may be the Gunboat's name.
Until October 2025, Prototype Troops were not saved in Troop Loadouts. Their spaces remained empty.

Statistics

HQ Level	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29
Number Available	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1

Level	Energy Capacity	Upgrade Cost			Loadout Amount	Upgrade Time	Instant	Headquarters Level Required	XP Gain
Level	Energy Capacity	Wood	Stone	Iron	Loadout Amount	Upgrade Time	Instant	Headquarters Level Required	XP Gain
1	12	N/A	N/A	N/A	0	N/A	N/A	1	N/A
2	14	180	N/A	N/A	0	3s	3	2	1
3	16	1,240	N/A	N/A	0	3s	8	2	7
4	18	4,500	N/A	N/A	0	15m	24	3	13
5	20	10,000	N/A	N/A	0	30m	43	4	17
6	22	19,800	N/A	N/A	0	45m	68	5	19
7	24	26,400	4,600	N/A	0	1h	100	6	20
8	26	40,000	7,900	N/A	0	1h 30m	140	7	22
9	28	66,000	14,600	N/A	0	2h	187	8	26
10	30	105,000	24,900	6,600	2	4h	317	9	28
11	32	166,000	42,000	13,400	2	6h	437	10	34
12	34	228,000	82,000	23,800	2	10h	610	11	37
13	36	350,000	163,000	43,000	3	14h	845	12	40
14	38	490,000	297,000	84,000	3	18h	1,143	13	46
15	40	690,000	600,000	166,000	3	20h	1,560	14	54
16	42	1,200,000	910,000	330,000	4	1d	2,184	15	64
17	44	1,710,000	1,530,000	670,000	4	1d 4h	3,008	16	73
18	46	2,450,000	2,020,000	1,280,000	4	1d 8h	3,940	17	77
19	48	3,030,000	2,760,000	1,810,000	5	1d 12h	4,799	18	81
20	50	3,400,000	3,300,000	2,630,000	5	1d 20h	5,592	19	83
21	51	4,470,000	4,300,000	4,130,000	6	1d 22h	7,008	21	85
22	52	5,100,000	4,900,000	4,700,000	6	2d	7,682	22	87
23	53	5,810,000	5,590,000	5,360,000	7	2d 2h	8,436	24	89
24	54	6,630,000	6,370,000	6,110,000	7	2d 4h	9,254	25	91
25	55	7,560,000	7,360,000	7,160,000	7	2d 6h	10,250	26	93
26	56	8,620,000	8,420,000	8,220,000	8	2d 8h	11,305	27	95
27	57	9,820,000	9,620,000	9,420,000	8	2d 10h	12,454	28	97

Warships

Rank	Level	Build Count	Upgrade Tokens	Tech Level
1	11	1	N/A	5
2	15	1	54,000	10
3	18	1	71,500	15
4	20	1	87,000	20
5	22	1	105,000	25
Total			317,500	75

Visit the individual Gunboat Weapon pages to view their statistics.

Buildings
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