AI War:Infiltrator

Passes through force fields and fires small, armor-piercing shots. Best in huge swarms.

Base Stats

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Ship Cap	Ammo Type	Armor Type	Immunities	Damage Bonuses
320	Dark Matter	Swarmer	Force Fields	4 Medium, 4 Heavy, 4 Ultra-Heavy

Mark	Damage	Attack Range	Reload	Health	Armor	Speed	Engine Health	Single Ship DPS	Ship Cap DPS	Ship Cap HP	Abilities
I	14	3,600	3 sec	465	1	84	100	5 dmg/sec	1,493 dmg/sec	148,800	Cloaking Engine Damage 3 Armor Piercing 3
II	26	3,600	3 sec	930	3	84	100	9 dmg/sec	2,773 dmg/sec	297,600	Cloaking Engine Damage 4 Armor Piercing 6
III	40	3,600	3 sec	1,400	4	84	100	13 dmg/sec	4,267 dmg/sec	448,000	Cloaking Engine Damage 5 Armor Piercing 9
IV	52	3,600	3 sec	1,870	6	84	100	17 dmg/sec	5,547 dmg/sec	598,400	Cloaking Engine Damage 6 Armor Piercing 12
V	66	3,600	3 sec	2,340	7	84	100	22 dmg/sec	7,040 dmg/sec	748,800	Cloaking Engine Damage 7 Armor Piercing 15

Mark	Knowledge	Metal Cost	Crystal Cost	Total Cost	Energy Cost	Build Time	Cap Metal Cost	Cap Crystal Cost	Cap Total Cost	Cap Energy Cost	Cap Build Time
I	--	100	100	200	20	00:00:01	16,000	16,000	32,000	3,200	00:02:40
II	2,500	200	200	400	40	00:00:02	32,000	32,000	64,000	6,400	00:05:20
III	4,000	400	400	800	40	00:00:04	64,000	64,000	128,000	6,400	00:10:40
IV	Adv Fac	600	600	1,200	40	00:00:05	96,000	96,000	192,000	6,400	00:13:20
V	Core Fab	800	800	1,600	40	00:00:07	128,000	128,000	256,000	6,400	00:18:40

How to use in your fleet

Individually weak, but with a ship cap half again as big as normal, these ships swarm their enemies to death.

They really shine when a Force Field-protected target needs to be taken down as they ignore enemy Force Fields and can fire right through them.

Their cloaking also allows them to sneak around enemy systems get the first shot off when combat starts. Even when an enemy target is covered by a Fortress, these can slip in and destroy it thanks to their Cloaking. Just expect to lose them all once they drop their cloak when they attack and the Fortress responds.....

Which is the biggest weakness of the Infiltrator. With their weak individual statistics and the nature of Cloaking to ignore other defenses while going after high-value target, you will find these ships have a high loss rate and will be replacing them much more frequently then your other ships.

However, weak individual statistics include the economic cost to replace them. At half the cost of the Fighter to build in terms of resources, they will not be a large strain on your economy.

Having said that, they are fair damage-soakers and will happily travel with your Fighters and Bombers to take down a Heavy/Ultra-Heavy target, just don't expect anything special from them when they do so.

Also note that because they are so cheap to replace, against a target with the Instal-Kill Ability, such as an Ion Cannon, you can simply swarm it to death and take a relatively small amount of resources to replace the ships lost.

How to counter when in the AI fleet

The Cloaking combined with the Force Field Immunity can make these a nasty combination, especially as they will have a tendency to swarm you.

Thankfully they will die fast, so AoE abilities such as a Gravity Turret to slow them, or a Lightning Turret to kill them will be effective.

Make sure to include Tachyon abilities in your arsenal to reveal these when they attack you.

Note that these ships fire Dark-Matter so units with the Counter Dark Matter Ability, such as the Counter Dark Matter Turret or the Cloaker Starship will render units near them immune to their attacks.

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