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."

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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

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Summary

• The Gunboat fires Artillery shots and other useful aids to your troops in battle as support.
• Different weaponry has different energy costs. Your Gunboat begins with a set amount of energy (depends on Gunboat level and Statues), and you gain three energy per building destroyed on the battlefield.
• In the beginning of the game, the Artillery, and later, the Barrage, is important in battles for destroying key Defensive Buildings.
• The Gunboat can also support troops with Flares, Medkits, Shock Bombs, Smoke Screens, and Critters, throwing them onto the battlefield.
• Hero Abilities, as well as deploying certain troops like Tanks and Scorchers, also cost Gunboat Energy. They also increase in energy cost with every use.
• There have been times when Temporary Gunboat Abilities have been given such as during the Mega Turtle event.
• Starting at Gunboat level 10, the Gunboat allows you to save different troop loadouts, by clicking on the rightmost button. You also get to name your loadouts. Gunboat level 10 allows you to save 2 different troop loadouts, and more are unlocked at Gunboat levels 13, 16, 19 and 21.

Check out our Energy Cost Calculator to find out how much energy you will use in an attack.

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 turn 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

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 person can have at the start of an attack is 154. He or she would have to have a level 22 Gunboat with the best possible energy boost masterpiece and nine of the best possible energy boost guardian.
  • If all ten statues were then boosted with Power Powder, that person would be able to start an attack with a whopping 255 energy.
• The level 22 Gunboat is the most expensive building upgrade in the game in terms of total resources (a total of 14,700,000 Wood, Stone and Iron).
• Although the Landing Crafts are used to load troops, saving and loading troop loadouts require tapping the Gunboat rather than a Landing Craft.
• At Gunboat levels 1-3, you can see on its stern the word "REEF," which may be the Gunboat's name.

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
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

Input total Statue bonus to modify the statistics in the table below accordingly

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Level	Energy Capacity	Upgrade Cost			Upgrade Time	Instant	Headquarters Level Required	XP Gain
		Wood	Stone	Iron
1	12	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	1	N/A
2	14	180	N/A	N/A	2m	3	1	1
3	16	1,240	N/A	N/A	30m	20	2	7
4	18	4,500	N/A	N/A	1h 45m	54	3	13
5	20	10,000	N/A	N/A	3h	85	4	17
6	22	19,800	N/A	N/A	3h 45m	116	5	19
7	24	26,400	4,600	N/A	4h	147	6	20
8	26	40,000	7,900	N/A	5h	190	7	22
9	28	66,000	14,600	N/A	6h	253	8	26
10	30	105,000	24,900	6,600	8h	365	9	28
11	32	166,000	42,000	13,400	10h	483	10	34
12	34	228,000	82,000	23,800	12h	630	11	37
13	36	350,000	163,000	43,000	14h	845	12	40
14	38	490,000	297,000	84,000	18h	1,143	13	46
15	40	690,000	600,000	166,000	20h	1,560	14	54
16	42	1,200,000	910,000	330,000	1d	2,184	15	64
17	44	1,710,000	1,530,000	670,000	1d 4h	3,008	16	73
18	46	2,450,000	2,020,000	1,280,000	1d 8h	3,940	17	77
19	48	3,030,000	2,760,000	1,810,000	1d 12h	4,799	18	81
20	50	3,400,000	3,300,000	2,630,000	1d 20h	5,592	19	83
21	51	4,470,000	4,300,000	4,130,000	1d 22h	7,008	21	85
22	52	5,100,000	4,900,000	4,700,000	2d	7,682	22	87

Visit the individual Gunboat Weapon pages to view their statistics.