Tempest MLRS

Eight-rocket saturation barrage. Erases fortified positions and clumped armies.

GroundLand unitsTier 3Medium

Stats

Tier: Tier 3
Cost: 760 metal
Build time: 40 s
Hit points: 380
Armor: Medium
Speed: 1.4 tiles/s
Unit cap: 3
Vision: 8 tiles
DPS: 61.7
Range: 13 tiles

Requires

Radar Station

Weapons

Rocket pods

GroundShips

Damage: 54 ×8
Reload: 7 s
Range: 13 tiles (min range 4)
DPS: 61.7

Splash 40 pxIndirect fireTurreted

Damage multiplier by armor class

Light

×1.20

Medium

×1

Heavy

×0.75

Structure

×1.60

Ship

×1

Submarine

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Aircraft

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The Tempest fires an eight-rocket salvo at extreme range, blanketing an area with howitzer-sized blasts. It is the Tier-3 siege unit: slower to reload than the howitzer, but a single volley erases a turret cluster or a clumped army, and against anything packed together it out-damages two howitzers of the same price.

How to use

Treat it as a howitzer with a bigger hammer. Get vision on the target from a drone or Radar, fire, and reposition during the long reload. It has a minimum range and no way to defend itself, so keep it well behind the line with anti-air overhead. A few Tempests make turtling impossible for the enemy.

Anecdotes

Soviet rocket crews named theirs Katyusha, after a popular song about a girl waiting for her soldier. The Germans underneath called the same weapon the Stalinorgel — Stalin's organ — for the noise it made on the way in.