Warrior

"We're a warrior tribe of many strong men! Let us join your fight against the invaders."

Summary

The Warrior is the fourth troop unlocked in the game. He is unlocked upon reaching Headquarters level 8.
Warriors have moderate health, high speed and good DPS along with self-healing attacks at the cost of extremely short range.
- Magma Statues do not increase the Warrior's self-healing, as it is a fixed value instead of actual lifesteal.

The Warrior appears as a slightly tanned, muscular man with white hair, facial tattoos, gold jewelry, and a blue crystal hammer.
His appearance is similar to that of the male Native Islander.

Just like Riflemen, Warriors should generally be used in large groups for maximum effect, but their high capacity and low range renders them vulnerable to all kinds of defenses. Area defenses can tear through them quickly, while point defenses can usually nuke them in one hit. Additionally, they cannot hope to outheal any damage dealt to them, although defenses with blindspots, such as Mortars, are typically unable to retaliate if Warriors manage to enter it.
Due to their high DPS, a popular strategy is to use a full Warrior army and rush the enemy's Headquarters, using Smoke Screens to cover their approach while a Flare steers them to the Headquarters, with Barrage and Artillery reserved to clear Mines. Once the Smoke Screen wears off, Medkit, Pvt. Bullit's Taunt ability, Sgt. Brick's Battle Orderss ability and Shock Bombs can be used to paralyze select defenses or to provide support, hopefully long enough for the Warriors to destroy the HQ in time.
- This strategy is less viable for Power Cores and Mega Cores, as both are 7x7 structure and cannot be covered by a single Smoke Screen or Medkit.

Most Warrior strategies revolve around doing as much damage as possible to the HQ within a limited timespan. While they will usually succeed, the opponent cannot afford to stun all defenses for too long and will inevitably suffer from casualties by defenses they might have ignored.
High-mark Shield Generators placed well away from the Headquarters can greatly bolster the Headquarters' health, especially if more than one is built. This can greatly reduce the chances of the Warriors destroying the HQ before all the Shock Bombs wear off.
Sky Shields can deny the opponent from placing down Smoke Screens without expending Gunboat Energy to destroy it, and Microwav'r's omnidirectional attacks can delete groups of Warriors in seconds if it gets a target, even through smoke. The S.I.M.O. ignores smoke entirely, as are Mines.

There are no visual changes between levels, but each upgrade increases the Warrior's hitpoints (by 5.9%), DPS (by 5.8%), healing per hit (by 2 HP), and training cost (by 200 gold).

Warriors have the highest damage-to-size ratio compared to equal level troops up to and including level 8, but are surpassed by Zookas at lebvl 9 and beyond.
You can have a maximum of 80 Warriors in a complete set of fully upgraded Landing Crafts.
Warrior's model is reused for the Sculptor and the Super Warrior.

Unit Size	Training Time	Movement Speed	Attack Range	Attack Speed	Headquarters Level Required
3	3m	Fast / 300	Melee / 0.9 Tiles	1s	8

Level	Hitpoints	DPS	HP Healed per Attack	Training Cost	Research Cost	Armory	Research Time	Instant	XP Gain
1	400	160	40	800	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
2	424	169	42	1,000	155,000	5	16h	308	42
3	449	179	44	1,200	294,000	6	22h	416	50
4	475	189	46	1,400	470,000	7	1d 6h	545	57
5	503	200	48	1,600	680,000	8	1d 7h	618	60
6	533	212	50	1,800	800,000	9	1d 9h	668	60
7	564	224	52	2,000	900,000	10	1d 13h	729	64
8	597	237	54	2,200	1,230,000	11	1d 20h	870	71
9	633	251	56	2,400	1,680,000	12	2d	1,010	77
10	670	266	58	2,600	1,900,000	13	2d 3h	1,082	77
11	710	281	60	2,800	2,280,000	14	2d 16h	1,257	86
12	751	297	62	3,000	3,140,000	15	2d 20h	1,466	91
13	796	315	64	3,200	3,600,000	16	2d 22h	1,571	91
14	843	333	66	3,400	4,000,000	17	3d 4h	1,689	96
15	892	352	68	3,600	4,500,000	17	3d 7h	1,800	96
16	945	373	70	3,800	4,800,000	18	3d 10h	1,873	97
17	1,001	394	72	4,000	5,600,000	19	3d 14h	2,042	100
18	1,060	417	74	4,200	6,400,000	20	3d 16h	2,193	101
19	1,123	441	76	4,400	7,000,000	21	3d 18h	2,306	103
20	1,189	467	78	4,600	7,500,000	22	3d 20h	2,401	105
21	1,257	495	80	4,800	8,000,000	23	3d 22h	2,497	107
22	1,327	525	82	5,000	8,500,000	24	4d	2,585	109
23	1,399	557	84	5,200	9,000,000	25	4d 2h	2,680	111
24	1,473	590	86	5,400	9,500,000	26	4d 4h	2,751	113
25	1,554	625	87.5	5,600	10,000,000	27	4d 6h	2,856	115

Rank	Level	Reserves Size	Upgrade Tokens	Tech Level
1	4	75	N/A	5
2	8	91	57,500	10
3	12	107	84,000	15
4	16	123	123,000	20
5	20	139	195,000	25
Total			459,500	75

Offense
Troops	Rifleman • Heavy • Zooka • Warrior • Tank • Medic • Grenadier • Scorcher • Laser Ranger • Cryoneer • Bombardier • Mech • Rocket Choppa
Prototype Troops	Lazortron MK II. • Rain Maker • Critter Cannon MK II. • Seeker • Heavy Choppa • Turret Engineer • Critter Engineer • Cryobombardier • Protector • Dr. Vitamin • Clone Rifleman • Melon Bombardier • Shockaneer • Vampire Zooka • CryoTank • Stunner • Hidden Warrior • MegaScorcher
Removed Troops	Lazortron • Critter Cannon • Incinerator
Gunboat Weaponry	Artillery • Flare • Medkit • Shock Bomb • Barrage • Smoke Screen • Critters
Temporary Gunboat Abilities	Cryobomb • Super Warrior • Speed Serum • Deployable Turret • Remote Defib • Explosive Drones • Remote Hack • Tiny Shock • Crystal Shield Projector • Crystal Critters
Heroes and their Hero Abilities	Sgt. Brick - Cluster Grenade • Iron Will • Battle Orders Dr. Kavan - Crystal Critters • Ice Shields • Second Wind Cpt. Everspark - Critter Swarm • Explosive Charges • Universal Remote Pvt. Bullit - Taunt • Energy Drink • Shock Knuckles Cpt. Ruddero - Wingman Rush • Bombing Run • Seeker Shot
Squad Leaders	Heavy - Meatshield • Minesweeper • Zooka Fan Zooka - Mooka • Ninja-Zooka Bombardier - Clustardier • Bomb & Shield • Firebrand

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