Vanguard Series

The Vanguard Series is a series of entities in Extended Arras. They originate from the classic Vanguard boss, which actually comes from Tale of Diep.

## Design

Vanguard Series bosses all have one thing in common: their body is the shape of an irregular rectangle, or arrowhead to be more specific. Most then have an auto-turret on top of their base and to more auto-turrets beneath the sides of the base. Most also have some sort of trap launcher in the rear.

## Types

### Added Vanguard Tanks

-Baby Vanguard; Playable but much weaker variant of the Vanguard that upgrades from Trapper and Auto-2.

### Added Vanguard Sentries

-Vanguard Lite; A Sentry variant of the Vanguard.

### Added Vanguard Bosses

-Vanguard; the classic Vanguard.

-Acrocity; one of the first Vanguard variants.

-Egger; the first Vanguard made by MonoDrive.

-Arrowhead; the first and currently only yellow Vanguard.

-Dart; the second Vanguard to use swarm drones (the first is Acrocity)

### Unconfirmed Vanguards

-Sheath; used to be playable by going to the "Bosses 7" section. It has been replaced by Shatterer.

-Shatterer; replacement for Sheath.

-Smogdrid; Unconfirmed Vanguard boss by Purrfect Speed.

-Nightstrike; Unconfirmed Vanguard boss by Purrfect Speed.

-Eclipse Nightstirike; Unconfirmed variant of Nightstrike by Purrfect Speed.

-Meltdown; Unconfirmed boss due to being too overpowered.

-Meltdown Unstable; Second phase of Meltdown which purposely crashes the server on death.

-VAGNUARD; Unconfirmed for multiple reasons, mainly that no official design has been chosen yet.

-Cutioner; Unconfirmed Vanguard boss.

-Elite Vanguard; Unconfirmed due to no official design yet.

-Hive Vanguard; Unconfirmed due to no official design yet.

-Fallen Vanguard; Unconfirmed Vanguard boss.

-Vanguard Swarmist; Unconfirmed for unofficial design and high potential to crash the server.

-Ultra Vanguard; and Unconfirmed Vanguard boss.

## Trivia

* Extended Arras is the second game to use the Vanguard boss.
	+ The first was woomy-arras.io/, but it would've been the second if Tale of Diep became a real game.
* Egger's creation was based off of Purrfect Speed's fondness of Vanguards.
	+ This has been confirmed by MonoDrive.
* The name "Nightstrike" was on Purrfect Speed's mind for about 3 years, however, he couldn't quite find someone or something to name Nightstrike.
	+ However, he decided to make a special Vanguard to hold the name Nightstrike. Thanks to Extended Arras.
* Vanguard Swarmist is similar to Cobalt X, another Vanguard Boss by Purrfect Speed.
	+ However, while Cobalt X can spawn any bosses that aren't too OP, Vanguard Swarmist, as the name suggest, only spawns Vanguards.
* VAGNAURD actually got his official name due to Purrfect Speed commonly misspelling "Vanguard" as "Vagnuard" while talking to his friends. Then he realized that Vagnuard was a cool name, so he made a boss called VAGNUARD.
* A picture of VAGNUARD was released, but it's unofficial an had to be made on short notice.
* About 95% of Vanguards on this list are made by Purrfect Speed.
	+ The 5% not made by Purrfect Speed are the original Vanguard, Egger, Sheath, Shatterer, Cutioner, and Ultra Vanguard.
		- Technically, some credit goes to Purrfect Speed for Egger, as said earlier, Egger's creation was based off of Purrfect's liking of Vanguards.

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