AI War:Acid Sprayer

Fires an acid shot at close range. Excellent at dissolving unusual hull materials.

Base Stats

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Ship Cap	Ammo Type	Armor Type	Immunities	Damage Bonuses
192	Acid	Close-Combat	Missile Ammo Sniper Shots Fusion Cutters	8 Neutron, 8 Refractive, 8 Composite, 8 Polycrystal

Mark	Damage	Attack Range	Reload	Health	Armor	Speed	Engine Health	Single Ship DPS	Ship Cap DPS	Ship Cap HP	Abilities
I	12	2,500	2 sec	780	4	120	100	6 dmg/sec	1,152 dmg/sec	149,760	Armor Piercing 4
II	24	2,500	2 sec	1,570	9	120	100	12 dmg/sec	2,304 dmg/sec	301,440	Armor Piercing 9
III	36	2,500	2 sec	2,350	13	120	100	18 dmg/sec	3,456 dmg/sec	451,200	Armor Piercing 13
IV	48	2,500	2 sec	3,140	18	120	100	24 dmg/sec	4,608 dmg/sec	602,880	Armor Piercing 18
V	62	2,500	2 sec	3,900	22	120	100	31 dmg/sec	5,952 dmg/sec	748,800	Armor Piercing 22

Mark	Knowledge	Metal Cost	Energy Cost	Build Time	Cap Metal Cost	Cap Energy Cost	Cap Build Time
I	--	440	100	00:00:04	42,240	9,600	00:06:24
II	2,500	900	200	00:00:08	86,400	19,200	00:12:48
III	4,000	1,800	200	00:00:15	172,800	19,200	00:24:00
IV	Adv Fac	2,680	200	00:00:23	257,280	19,200	00:36:48
V	Core Fab	3,540	200	00:00:30	339,840	19,200	00:48:00

How to use in your fleet

Acid sprayers are approximate to faster, more expensive Fighters dedicated to attacking rare hulls. They do similar DPS against Bombers and other polycrystal creatures, making them potential complements to Fortresses in player defenses. Although generally less effective within the fleet, there are often neutron-hulled enemies (EMP Guardians, Tractor Guardians, Zenith Starships and Spire Starships, etc..) or refractive-hulled enemies (in particular Eye Bots) that the player are interested in eliminating as soon as possible. In this sense, Acid-sprayers are like Missile Frigates and can be utilised to focus-fire on them.

A mark-V fabricator of these will be a good unlock and arguably better than anti-starship arachnids.

How to counter when in the AI fleet

The acid-sprayer's short range and weak normal damage does not contribute much to a firefight, and there are relatively few ships in the player arsenal that are particularly weak to acid-sprayers. It is, however, possible to lose your expensive zenith and spire starships to these very quickly if you're being careless. A micro-inclined player will also do well to keep their bomber and bomber-starships away.

Taking the above into regard, acid-sprayers become annoying but mostly harmless. They are immune to missiles and snipers, so remember to chase them down with your other defenders.

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