Battalion

**Battalion** is a Tier 4 body upgrade upgrading from Brigade and Thorn at Level 45.

## Design/Technical

Spike with an extra Triplet attached. The Triplet turret has the same damage as a Triplet, which means it's a strong mid-range asset, good for farming polygons and to fight enemies. The Spike shell has slightly more ram damage than the regular Spike, but it has less health.

Base Stats
 Bullet Speed
 Bullet Penetration
 Detection Range
 Health
 Body Damage
 Movement Speed

## Strategy

#### As a Battalion

* Battalion is an optimal upgrade for bullet spammers (i.e. Disperse, Penta) pursuing movement speed and bullet power.
	+ The movement speed and auto-cannons made Battalion a perfect counter of regular spamming-tanks such as Emperor-Mothership, destroying their drones right away before they have enough time to recharge.
	+ Battalion is also good against Polygons due to the extra Triplet attached.
* However, it is generally advised to avoid any custom trap launcher (Raider especially).
	+ This is pretty much mutual between all the auto-cannon users, as the custom traps are likely to offset any incoming bullets.
* Despite significant advantages, it also lacks the ability to actively attack. It is also a fusion, meaning that it is not very strong on both sides.
	+ In result, if a player uses Marksman-Battalion, and the opponent using Saw, the opponent is likely to win because the lack of speed of Battalion than Saw. From time to time auto-cannons are useless despite the fact that it adds extra protective uses to the player.
	+ This is to conclude that direct conflicts (likely 1v1 duels) with the tank is not recommended.
* Battalion is also weak against rammers. It does add speed, health, body damage boost and even a Triplet to the player, but still nothing compared to the stats of the rammer.

#### Against a Battalion

* Battalion might have advantages of been fast, can farm polygons and is overrall a useful body upgrade, it still has weaknesses. Firstly, the Battalion is weak to Inferno-classes, since their huge aura damages it heavily, and it's Triplet turret can be countered by relatively simple trap-spamming classes like Riot.
* If you're a Drone-class, there's a likely chance to heavily damage and kill the Battalion. If it uses Penta however, there's not much of a chance you can do to kill it, thus using Manufacturer is an effective way to kill the Battalion. It's powerful Destroyer-Palace minions are tanky, and shoot bullets that can heavily damage the Battalion. Not only that, the minions are relatively fast, and can even catch up to the Battalion. Just make sure not to expose yourself to the Battalion while your drones are far away from it though. However Ziggurat and Bastion can take a lot of damage before dying.
* Aside that, the Battalion itself is weak to Bombard and/or Saw. Bombard because the long-range attack of it can attack the Battalion before it's Triplet turret can see you. Bombard's turret also deal heavy damages from far away. Even if the Battalion gets right close to you, you can still kill it if you have good weapon upgrades. And Saw because the Battalion is heavily outsped by the Battalion itself, not to mention the ram of Saw is superior. You can take quite a lot of hits before dying.
* Using Custom Trap tanks (or pillboxes) tanks like Arsenal or Raider is also effective for killing Battalions. Arsenal's traps can offset any bullets that the Battalion fires at you. The tiny bullets are also very powerful for their size, and if the Battalion is caught in some of these bullets, it will lose a good chunk of it's health. If you liked to use ranged firepower more, Raider is powerful simply because the Battalion has no long-range damage, and Raider's traps have more detection range than Battalion. It's traps also soaks up any damage that the Triplet cannon can fire at you. It's large bullets, although easier to block, can still deal serious damage to the Battalion itself.

#### Matchups

* **Strong Against:** Most slow tanks (any weapons), Horizon, Slow Marksman, Mothership, Ziggurat, Emperor.
* **Goes Well With:**Bastion, Trap-assasinating tanks, Executive, Foundry, Wave, Quadruplet.
* **Weak Against:**Inferno, Bombard, Custom-trap tanks, Rammers, Manufacturer.