Lotus: Difference between revisions

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Overview

The Lotus is a light laser turret (LLT), it can handle one or two raiders but dies relatively easily to more than that, or skirmishers.

Statistics

Health: 785
Movespeed: Immobile
Cost(Metal/Energy): 90
Vision Range: 554

Light Laserbeam

Damage Per Second: 75
Range: 460
Reloadtime: 0s (Constant Beam)

Strategy

Use these alongside Pickets to defend from early raids. It is advised to place one of these next to your starting factory.

Counters

Anything heavier than raiders easily dislodges a Lotus, if there is such a high number to the point where even Assaults get deterred then artillery units can take them down from a safe distance.

Other Information

Using these in very high numbers is probably not cost efficient but it tends to have surprisingly high damage.

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+== Overview ==
-| defname = turretlaser
+The Lotus is a light laser turret (LLT), it can handle one or two raiders but dies relatively easily to more than that, or skirmishers.
-}}==Description==
-The Lotus is a basic turret. A versatile, solid anti-ground weapon, it does well versus scouts as well as being able to take on one or two raiders. Falls relatively easily to skirmishers, artillery or assault units unless supported.
-==Tactics and Strategy==
+=== Statistics ===
-In the early game it is common for small forces of raiders and scouts to run all over the map, both to gather intel and to pick off any vulnerable builders, factories or economic buildings they find. The Lotus is a cheap and effective way to protect your base and metal extractors against these early raids.
+* Health: 785
+* Movespeed: Immobile
+* Cost(Metal/Energy): 90
+* Vision Range: 554
-They're also useful for protecting larger fixed defenses that deal poorly with raiders, such as stingers, from direct attack by such forces.
+==== Light Laserbeam ====
+* Damage Per Second: 75
+* Range: 460
+* Reloadtime: 0s (Constant Beam)
-Their low cost comes at the expense of low power, however, and lotuses are easily overwhelmed by large groups of raiders, or even by a small number of heavy raiders. Assaults, riots and skirmishers will all take them down easily as well. It can be tempting to simply build more lotuses, but large groups of lotuses are highly vulnerable to anything that outranges them, as the individual turrets don't even have enough health to slow down an enemy skirmisher or artillery push.
+=== Strategy ===
+Use these alongside [[Picket]]s to defend from early raids. It is advised to place one of these next to your starting factory.
-Occasionally, building a group of 3-4 lotuses around a critical building, such as a factory or fusion, may be useful if your enemy is making use of stealthy raiders or other such deep-raiding tactics.
+=== Counters ===
+Anything heavier than raiders easily dislodges a [[Lotus]], if there is such a high number to the point where even Assaults get deterred then artillery units can take them down from a safe distance.
+=== Other Information ===
+*Using these in very high numbers is probably not cost efficient but it tends to have surprisingly high damage.
+[[Category:Buildings]]
-{{Navbox buildings}}
+[[Category:Turrets]]