Recon Buggy
Fast scout with a light machine gun. Great eyes, thin skin.
GroundLand unitsTier 1Light
Stats
- Tier
- Tier 1
- Cost
- 60 metal
- Build time
- 5 s
- Hit points
- 150
- Armor
- Light
- Speed
- 3.8 tiles/s
- Unit cap
- 1
- Vision
- 10 tiles
- Power
- −1
- DPS
- 17.5
- Range
- 3.6 tiles
- Ability
- Sprint
Weapons
Machine gun
Ground
- Damage
- 7
- Reload
- 0.40 s
- DPS
- 17.5
- Range
- 3.6 tiles
- Traits
- Aimed from a mount that turns on its own: the unit fires in any direction without turning its hull, and can keep firing on the move. A fixed gun has to face its target first.
- vs Light
- ×1.50
- vs Medium
- ×0.80
- vs Heavy
- ×0.40
- vs Structure
- ×0.35
Counters
- Light
- Effective against: ×1.50; Countered by: ×1.20
- Medium
- Effective against: ×0.80; Countered by: ×1.50
- Heavy
- Effective against: ×0.40; Countered by: ×1.20
- Structure
- Effective against: ×0.35; Countered by: ×1.50
- Ship
- Effective against: —; Countered by: ×1.50
- Submarine
- Effective against: —; Countered by: ×1.20
- Aircraft
- Effective against: —; Countered by: ×1.40
The Recon Buggy is fast, cheap and lightly armed. Its machine gun is only dangerous to light targets, but its vision is what you are paying for.
How to use
Build one early and send it around the map: find the enemy base, count their extractors, and spot the lane their army will use. Later, a pack of buggies kills engineers and raids undefended extractors, then leaves before armor arrives. Never fight tanks or turrets with it.
Anecdotes
The Long Range Desert Group crossed the Sahara in stripped-down Chevrolet trucks, navigating by sun compass and trusting speed instead of armour. They spent most of the war watching roads and writing down what drove past.
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