Steel Ball

Steel Ball
Mobility	Ground
Giant	No
Cost	200
Unlock cost	50
Units	4
HP	4571
Attack	2 - 2605
Target	Ground Only
Attack Interval	0.2s
Splash Damage	No
Burst Damage	Minimal
Max DPS	52100
Range	45m
Speed	16m/s
	Description A high-speed and high HP unit that attacks enemies at close range with a laser beam that gradually grows in size. The bane of all high HP units
	Values are normalized to the supply cost of the unit to make it easier to compare units.; The Splash Index tries to calculate the effectiveness vs spam by multiply attacks with slash area and a penalty for damage below 350.
Unit Cost	50 - 62.5
HP Value	73.1 - 91.4
Burst Value	0 - 0
DPS Value	208.4 - 260.5
Splash Index	0.5

Steel Ball Tech Upgrades
Name	Cost	Description
Energy Absorption	300	Increases HP by 60% and converts damage dealt to HP
Damage Sharing	250	Chains adjacent steel balls together, increasing HP by 120% and sharing damage received equally between them
Mechanical Division	300	Destroyed Steel Balls create 7 level 1 Crawlers to continue fighting
Range Enhancement	300	Increases attack range by 40m
Armor Enhancement	300	The effect increases with unit level, reducing damage received by 60 per level
Heavy Target	200	Decrease range by 10m, when switching target, lock-on priority is given to the unit with the highest HP in range.

Melting Damage

The damage of the Steel Ball need time to build up. A full unit need about 26s to deal a total of 1,000,000 damage that is about 5s longer then the max DPS. That shows the the build up to max DSP need more then 5s. As rule of thumb; it takes about 4 seconds for the first max DPS and 2 seconds for the next, after that the max DPS is applied.

Update Notes


0.7.6 Attack increased by 10% New Technology [Heavy Target]: Decrease range by 10, when switching target, lock-on priority is given to the unit with the highest HP in range. The effect of the [Improved Steel Ball] card is adjusted to: Steel Ball's attack increased by 50%, HP increased by 30%, and movement speed increased by 3, but the recruitment cost increased by 50. [Extended range Steel Ball] is removed from the game. 0.7.0 Adjusted speed from 15m/s to 16m/s 0.6.175 Page created

Values are normalized to the supply cost of the unit to make it easier to compare units. The Splash Index tries to calculate the effectiveness vs spam by multiply attacks with slash area and a penalty for damage below 350.
Unit Cost	50 - 62.5
HP Value	73.1 - 91.4
Burst Value	0 - 0
DPS Value	208.4 - 260.5
Splash Index	0.5