Flintlock

* Red
* Blue

## Statistics

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 100

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50

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1.00x

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1.00x

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1.00x

## Weapons

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One-handed

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None

## Additional Statistics

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Melee Unit

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Enemy

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Early Access 0.7.0

## Characteristics

The Flintlock is a sailor armed with two flintlock pistols. The flintlock pistols are close ranged, Flintlocks will have to get close to fire. They throw away the pistols as soon as a shot is fired, and will proceed by punching enemy units.

## Appearance

The Flintlock has rolled-up brown pants with socks underneath, as well as a belt, vest, bandana, shoes, and hair. It wields two flintlock pistols, but also fights bare-handed.

The design was slightly changed in the Wild West & Win Conditions Update, removing its hair. This was reverted in the Unit Creator update.

## Unit Voice

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 Death Vocals

## Usage

Flintlocks are cheap ranged Units , best used in mass. They fire their pistols sequentially, before discarding them and engaging in melee with their fists. Each pistol fires one shot and does moderate damage, but shields completely negate damage made by the shots.

The Flintlock is one of the few units in TABS which has both ranged and melee attacks, making it cheap and versatile. The punches performed by them after use of the pistols are actually relatively effective (even with knockback), and despite their contrastingly weak effect, they can "hug" some enemies to death if they get inside the reach of longer melee weapons, such as spears, thereby threatening some superior units. Their pistols are also good at "softening up" large groups of enemy units, since firing into crowds makes up for the Flintlock's relative inaccuracy.

## Trivia

* In real life, flintlock pistols would usually not be reloaded when the wielder was locked in combat, since they could take up to 30 seconds to be reloaded and leave the wielder vulnerable. As such, each pistol would usually be fired once, and the wielder would switch to a different weapon (such as a sword, or another pistol), or the pistol may be used as a club. The Flintlock's combat behavior reflects this, as they fire their shots before ditching its pistols and switching to melee.
* When using Unit Possession, you can shoot one, and not shoot the other. This allows them to reload its other gun, but the reload time is 99 seconds.
	+ This means that the Flintlock is the slowest ranged shooter in TABS.
		- If you wait 99 seconds without shooting the other gun, the gun on the ground will shoot without the unit holding it.
			* This is likely unintended.
* Flintlock is the one of the cheapest ranged units in the game, sharing same price with the Dynamite thrower.
* The Flintlock is surprisingly extremely effective against Jesters, since a single flintlock bullet can one shot a jester, and the other one will one shot another jester, and the flintlock unit can defeat a jester too, which makes a single flintlock able to take down several jesters alone, and it is 3 times cheaper than them.

## Gallery

An example of when the flintlock was first shown.THIS IS A STICKUP!!Flintlocks in real life.Blocked out pirate faction!OWWEE!!THEY KILLED FINN!! RETREAT!![1]