Heavy Choppa

Summary

• The Heavy Choppa is a flying troop formerly available exclusively on Warships from Season 5 onwards, then implemented as a Prototype Troop.
• Like the Heavy, the Heavy Choppa has high hitpoints but low damage per second for its housing space.
• It periodically deploys a Heavy every 5 seconds, up to a maximum of 10 times. After it has dropped 10, it will not spawn any more heavies until it is destroyed.
• When shot down, Heavy Choppas will deal a small amount of damage in a small radius when it crashes onto the ground and drop 8 Heavies in its place.
• As a flying unit, only a limited selection of Defensive Buildings can attack the Heavy Choppa, as described in the table below. The Heavy Choppa is also able to fly over all types of Mines.
• The Heavy Choppa is unlocked for players who have an Armory level of 13 or above and starts 1 level below the Armory level. It can be upgraded using Proto Tokens gained from events.
• A Heavy Choppa costs 8 Gunboat Energy to deploy.

Visual Appearance

• The Heavy Choppa appears to be a heavily-armored Boeing CH-47 Chinook military transport helicopter armed with two miniguns. There are armored plates on the windows, doors, cabin, as well as the nose. It has six wheels on the undercarriage. The rotors, minigun barrel clamps, and turboshaft engines have blue markings. The text on the engines read "02."

Offensive Strategy

• They work quite well with Rocket Choppas because of their flying ability, similar movement speed as well as complimenting the high damage of the Rocket Choppas with high health and short range to soak up a majority of the damage.
• Watch out for Doom Cannons because they can wipe out your Heavy Choppas. Grapplers near Cannons will achieve a similar affect.
• Heavy Choppas work quite well with Bombardiers as well due to their action of dropping Heavies. Make sure Rocket Launchers and Shock Launchers do not target your Bombardiers, though, since the Heavy Choppas and Heavies will stand in the blind spots of these defenses.
  • If you have not unlocked Bombardiers yet, you can use Zookas instead. They work the same way as a standard composition of Heavies and Zookas, except that in this case Heavies cover is much stronger.

Defensive Strategy

• Choosing Grapplers or Doom Cannons on the Tech Tree will greatly improve your success against Heavy Choppas. Additionally, placing Sky Shields near your Engine Rooms will prevent enemies from flaring directly to them.
• For main base, a good decision is to place some heavy defenses as Doom Cannons, Boom Cannons and regular Cannons in order to destroy as many Heavy Choppas as possible before they would spawn a lot of Heavies.
• Hot Pots, Microwav'rs and Flamethrowers can help in defending when Heavy Choppas have already spawned many Heavies. These defensive buildings have significant damage value, as well as splash type of damage which helps them deal with a bug number of short-range units.

Trivia

• You can have a maximum of 16 Heavy Choppas in a complete set of level 24-25 Landing Crafts.
• Defeated Heavies deployed from Heavy Choppas do not count as casualties.
• As a flying unit, Heavy Choppas as well as Rocket Choppas can fly over the large chasms of Warships and Mega Crab.
• Dr. Kavan's Second Wind ability cannot revive Heavy Choppas, but it can revive the spawned heavies if they are killed.

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Statistics

Unit Size	Training Time	Movement Speed	Attack Range	Attack Speed
14	30m	Fast / 350	5.5-10 Tiles	0.1s

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Level	Hitpoints	DPS	Damage per Shot	Training Cost	Upgrade Cost in Proto Tokens
12	16,800	180	18	35,000	N/A
13	17,555	190	19	40,000	250
14	18,300	200	20	45,000	350
15	19,100	210	21	50,000	450
16	19,900	220	22	55,000	550
17	20,750	230	23	60,000	650
18	21,650	245	24.5	65,000	750
19	22,500	255	25.5	70,000	850
20	23,400	265	26.5	75,000	950
21	24,300	275	27.5	80,000	1,050
22	25,250	290	29	85,000	1,150
23	26,200	305	30.5	90,000	1,250
24	27,200	320	32	95,000	1,350
25	28,060	335	33.5	100,000	1,450
26	29,000	350	35	105,000	1,550

Defenses Against Air Troops
Category	Can Target Air	Cannot Target Air
Defensive Buildings	Sniper Tower Machine Gun Cannon Boom Cannon Rocket Launcher	Mortar Flamethrower Critter Launcher Shock Launcher
Traps	None	Mine Boom Mine Shock Mine
Prototype Defenses	Shock Blaster Lazor Beam Doom Cannon Boom Surprise	Hot Pot Grappler S.I.M.O. Microwav'r Flotsam Cannon

Warships

Rank	Level	Reserves Size	Upgrade Tokens	Tech Level
1	14	11	N/A	5
2	16	13	135,500	10
3	18	15	164,000	15
4	20	18	198,500	20
5	22	20	270,000	25
Total			768,000	75