Missile Boat

Anti-ship missiles on a small hull. Punches far above its weight.

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Stats

Tier: Tier 1
Cost: 280 metal
Build time: 18 s
Hit points: 300
Armor: Ship
Speed: 2.5 tiles/s
Unit cap: 2
Vision: 9 tiles
DPS: 48.6
Range: 8 tiles

Production and tech

Built at

Naval Yard

Advanced Naval Yard

Counters

Effective against

Countered by

Albatross Naval Striker

Weapons

Anti-ship missiles

Ships

Damage: 170
Reload: 3.50 s
Range: 8 tiles
DPS: 48.6

HomingTurreted

Damage multiplier by armor class

Light

—

Medium

—

Heavy

—

Structure

—

Ship

×1.60

Submarine

—

Aircraft

—

The Missile Boat is a small hull carrying long-range anti-ship missiles. It cannot hit anything on land or in the air, but against surface ships it punches far above its price.

How to use

A pack of missile boats behind a gunboat screen is the cheapest way to sink a frigate or destroyer early. Fire from maximum range and back off while reloading. They are helpless against submarines and aircraft, so pair them with a Destroyer or Frigate once the enemy fields either.

Anecdotes

In 1967 two Egyptian missile boats sank the Israeli destroyer Eilat from beyond the horizon — the first warship ever killed by a ship-launched guided missile. Every navy in the world rewrote its air defences that year.