Mothership

**Mothership** is a Tier 4 body upgrade capable of spawning 12 to 24 drones (dependent on penetration).

## Technical/Design

4 mounted drone spawner positioned in a X like symbol.

Base Stats
 Drone Damage
 Drone Speed
 Drone Penetration
 Health
 Body Damage
 Movement Speed

[Source: Tank Editor from the Test Server]

## Strategy

#### As a Mothership

* The player should choose the play-style wisely according to the drone speed. Having a high drone speed will increase the amount of successful kills while lower drone speed will lower the amount.
	+ That means, low drone speed Mothership players should avoid hunting and farm Polygons to upgrade.
* Assuming that the player have high drone speed, the player can passively hunt players when one is near, but should still avoid active killing due to the poor drone damage.
* Below is a list of recommended type of players that the Mothership player can hunt:
	+ Heavy tanks. Annihilators with any heavy body (such as Ziggurat or Bombard) are considered great targets for Motherships with fast drones. Annihilators are mainly used for one-shots whereas the player can use the massive swarm of drones to defend itself, offsetting the Annihilator’s bullet.
		- Furthermore, slow bodies allow the drones to keep up with the Annihilator easily.
	+ Tanks that Motherships can consider hunting are pretty much limited, unless the player is using Riot-class trap spammer. With them, mothership will be more significantly used for assistance for the player to attack.
		- That will be quite powerful and can hunt down any non-defensive tanks, like Marksman (Although they may escape before the player even see them), bullet-genre Celestials, etc.

*The premise is that it would requires high level in order to fulfil the stats requirements, having high drone speed while abundance of damage and reload.*

#### Against a Mothership

* Unless the Mothership is playing with trap-spamming weapons, many weapon can beat a Mothership quite easily:
	+ The player can go for Marksman which can snipe it to death without even being seen.
	+ Rammers (Mainly Penta-Saw or Streamliner-Saw) can directly pass through the Mothership’s drones can disintegrating it even with little HP remaining. It is *not* advised to focus only on drones, but the victim.
* However, if the Mothership is indeed playing with trap-spammer, it will be way harder but there are still some choices:
	+ The player should never try to attack it when the Mothership already noticed it, or it will be countered to the edge (or whatever) quickly. Assassinating will be the only choice, so Alpha and Charon are both good.

#### Matchups

* **Strong Against:** Most slow tanks (Any weapons), bullet-type Celestials, Marksman (Occasionally, with trap-spamming weapons), etc. (with trap-spamming weapons)
* **Goes Well With:** Fast tanks (Any weapon), trap-assassinating tanks (trap-spammers, occasionally)
* **Weak Against:** Marksman, Rammers (Non-trappers), trap-assassinating tanks (Any weapon, occasional with trap-spammer), offensive spread-spammers(Disperse, Penta, etc.,).

#### Build Advice

The Mothership is multifunctional which does not have many limits, but are best paired with:

* Trap-spammers, such as Riot and Amalgam which helps killing players.
* Using Marksman-Mothership would reward an insane amount of FoV, but is not necessarily good.
* Farm tanks such as Industry and Quadro.
* Pairing this with Emperor will effectively enhance the max drone count.
* Executive. It's drones have insane damage but respawns slowly. Use this to improve the defense.