M16 (Alpha)

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## Usage

### Weaknesses

Chickens and mass amounts of ranged units

## Overview

The M16 was a unit in the game TABS. In the Open and Closed Alphas, it was located in the Miscellaneous Faction, since the scrapping of the Modern Faction, this unit's weapon has reappeared in the Unit Creator Beta.The unit was a generic Wobbler holding a "**M16**" assault rifle, firing rather accurate, very powerful yellow tracer bullets at a high rate of fire. They can be seen as a Musket unit that is extremely buffed, possessing a significantly higher cost, with similar movement and health, and massively increased attack power. Because of its insane-damage output, the M16 is one of the most powerful units in the Open Alpha, capable of wiping out entire armies of by itself. In numbers, the M16's are virtually unstoppable.

## Behavior

The M16 behaves very similarly to a Musket; they stand still and fire at the enemy, walking forward to close the distance if they are too far away. Unlike the Musket, they fire a continuous barrage of bullets, visible as yellow tracers instead of musket balls. In fact, the first tease of the M16 was a modified musket in a video. Their rifle is much shorter than the Musket's gun; in close quarters, they often have issues with aiming over their target, which may prove severely detrimental to them. They also have very little health, relying on their firepower and range to kill enemies.

## Usage

Since the unit is rather pricey, the M16 cannot be used in most levels of the Campaign. If used in the Sandbox, an M16 is capable of defeating three Trumps, Hillary's and even Superboxers easily, due to their superior accuracy and longer firing distance, as well as the Knockback power. However, an effective counter to the M16 is to swarm it with troops. Even a small horde of Peasants worth only 400-500 dollars (6x less expensive as the M16) will be able to defeat the M16. This is effective due to the extremely low health of the M16, which can also be taken down by a few chickens, or a peasant.

If you were to use the M16 in any serious situation, you would put it in the far back, with tanky fodder troops like Vikings or Boxers in front make sure no troops get to the M16. It could also be used with the Ballista to push back tanky troops like the Ninja Master so the Ballista has more time to shoot at incoming threats.

The Closed Alpha Debuffed the M16 extremely; instead of having great aim, especially on lone power troops, the M16 now cannot defeat a Darkpeasant on its own, but still can in groups.

## Trivia

* The unit has infinite ammo and no reload animation.
* Their rifle appears to be an M4A1 rather than an M16; the barrel is far too short to be the latter.
* The Trump unit wields two M16 rifles. However, the Trump Unit has a much shorter range, slightly less damage per shot, and worse aim.
* The M16 was made by tweaking the muskets by one of the developers as a joke.
* Its icon is the same as the musket. This may or may not be an oversight.
* It seems that this Unit is more expensive than trump
	+ This is because it has far better damage, range and aim than the latter, however: it has much less health than Trump.