Monsters

Planet 1 has three families of monsters and a boss every ten waves up to wave 50, then endless.

Saurians

From the 12 HP Hatchling to the 2,000 HP Tyrant Maw.

13 kinds·From wave 1·HP 12–2,000

Chaff·Splits from Mirecrest and Broodcrest

Hatchling

HP: 12
Speed: 2.8 tiles/s
Base dmg: 1
Gold: 2

The smallest body on the planet. Broodcrest carries a clutch of them, and Mirecrest spills three when it breaks.

Threat: Density - one is nothing, thirty is a leak
Counter: Any sweep; do not spend single-target fire on them

Chaff·From wave 1

Sprigtail

HP: 50
Speed: 2.0 tiles/s
Base dmg: 1
Gold: 6

Knee-high chaff that runs in loose packs: a whip tail, a low chiselled body and a lit seam down the spine.

Threat: Numbers - the first thing you ever see, and it never stops coming
Counter: Anything that hits more than one (Spark Coil)

Fast·From wave 3

Sicklerunner

HP: 30
Speed: 3.2 tiles/s
Base dmg: 1
Gold: 9

A sprinting raptor built around one sickle claw. It reaches the line before a slow turret has finished turning.

Threat: Speed - it is past the front of your line before it is shot
Counter: Slows and burn (Plasma Torch), or something that leads its run

Mid-line·From wave 4

Sailjaw

HP: 80
Speed: 1.8 tiles/s
Base dmg: 2
Gold: 18

Twin sail fans over long jaws, snapping sideways at whatever it walks past.

Threat: Steady mid-line pressure, and it does not walk in a straight line
Counter: Sustained single-target fire (Railgun Rig)

Fast·From wave 7

Stormquill

HP: 55
Speed: 2.6 tiles/s
Base dmg: 2
Gold: 10

A quilled darter with charge sacs down both flanks. Fast, and it does not stop for anything.

Threat: Speed with a body behind it - reads scarier than it is
Counter: Slows, then steady damage

Tank·From wave 9

Clubspine

3 hides

HP: 300
Speed: 0.7 tiles/s
Base dmg: 5
Gold: 48

A scuted tank under a heavy spiked club, plated against hits from the flanks. This one is made of fire: the club is lit in the Plasma Torch's own colour, and fire damage barely marks it.

Threat: Armour 3 plus a fire hide - the wall the wave walks behind
Counter: Hit it with anything BUT fire; elemental and DoT ignore the plates

Armour 3
Fire-resistant

A scuted tank under a heavy spiked club, plated against hits from the flanks. This one is made of lightning: the club is lit in the Spark Coil's own colour, and lightning damage barely marks it.

Threat: Armour 3 plus a lightning hide - the wall the wave walks behind
Counter: Hit it with anything BUT lightning; elemental and DoT ignore the plates

Armour 3
Lightning-resistant

A scuted tank under a heavy spiked club, plated against hits from the flanks. This one is made of poison: the club is lit in the Toxin Injector's own colour, and poison damage barely marks it.

Threat: Armour 3 plus a poison hide - the wall the wave walks behind
Counter: Hit it with anything BUT poison; elemental and DoT ignore the plates

Armour 3
Poison-resistant

Mid-line·From wave 11

Emberfrill

HP: 100
Speed: 1.1 tiles/s
Base dmg: 3
Gold: 18

A charger behind a wide ceramic frill and three forward horns.

Threat: A frill the size of a shield leading a wave in
Counter: Burn ignores the frill (Plasma Torch)

Mid-line·From wave 12

Mirecrest

HP: 70
Speed: 2.2 tiles/s
Base dmg: 2
Gold: 22

Comb-crested and quick, and it arrives spread out instead of in a clump. Lightning washes off it, nothing stuns it, and when it breaks three hatchlings spill out.

Threat: The hard counter to coil spam: lightning-proof, stun-proof, and it splits
Counter: Fire or toxin, and a sweep ready for the hatchlings

Lightning-resistant
Splits into 3 Hatchlings

Fast·From wave 13

Vaneglider

HP: 24
Speed: 4.5 tiles/s
Base dmg: 1
Gold: 16

Membrane vanes carry it straight over your turrets. Ground zones and traps never touch it.

Threat: Airborne - it ignores the map you built
Counter: Direct fire and chains (Spark Coil)

Flies

Tank·From wave 14

Broodcrest

HP: 780
Speed: 0.5 tiles/s
Base dmg: 4
Gold: 90

A plated mother with a clutch riding her back. Break her and four hatchlings keep walking.

Threat: Armour 4 that becomes four more bodies when it dies
Counter: Elemental damage bypasses the plates; keep a sweep for the brood

Armour 4
Splits into 4 Hatchlings

Anchor·From wave 43

Tyrant Maw

HP: 2,000
Speed: 0.4 tiles/s
Base dmg: 10
Gold: 120

The pack's big predator: a gaping skull on two thunderous legs. The wave-10 anchor, and a rare sight again later.

Threat: Wave anchor - it eats a full salvo and nothing stuns it
Counter: Everything you have, and keep the line clear behind it

Wave-10 boss

Raptors

From the Nubtail, the runt of the pack, to Crestmaw, the heaviest raptor.

10 kinds·From wave 8·HP 40–850

Chaff·From wave 8

Nubtail

HP: 40
Speed: 2.0 tiles/s
Base dmg: 1
Gold: 7

The runt of the plumed pack: short, stubby and bare, with one small fan on a stub of a tail.

Threat: Numbers - the runt of the plumed pack
Counter: Anything that hits more than one

Swarm·From wave 16

Ribbontail

HP: 60
Speed: 2.3 tiles/s
Base dmg: 1
Gold: 13

A thin, fast runner whose tail forks into two long ribbons that cross as it strides.

Threat: Speed - a thin runner that slips past slow guns
Counter: Slows, then a sweep

Fast·From wave 17

Dartplume

HP: 50
Speed: 2.3 tiles/s
Base dmg: 1
Gold: 16

A whip-thin sprinter that holds two feather vanes out from its flanks.

Threat: Speed - a sprinter that crosses a kill zone fast
Counter: Slows, then steady damage

Mid-line·From wave 18

Quillox

HP: 90
Speed: 1.8 tiles/s
Base dmg: 2
Gold: 28

The one plumed raptor on four legs: a low, humped body with a skirt of quills down each flank.

Threat: A low four-legged body that keeps walking
Counter: Sustained single-target fire

Mid-line·From wave 19

Spadehead

HP: 105
Speed: 1.9 tiles/s
Base dmg: 3
Gold: 33

A lean grubber whose head ends in a broad, flat shovel wider than its chest.

Threat: Steady mid-line pressure
Counter: Sustained single-target fire

Mid-line·From wave 22

Stiltreap

HP: 95
Speed: 2.1 tiles/s
Base dmg: 2
Gold: 32

All legs and neck: it wades forward on two long stilts with its scythe claws folded back.

Threat: Long legs - it covers ground faster than it looks
Counter: Slows, then steady damage

Anchor·From wave 29

Broodback

HP: 800
Speed: 1.4 tiles/s
Base dmg: 8
Gold: 110

A broad-hipped carrier with a row of five young riding down its back.

Threat: A heavy anchor that holds the lane
Counter: Everything you have, focused

Tank·From wave 24

Yokehorn

HP: 340
Speed: 1.6 tiles/s
Base dmg: 4
Gold: 50

A short, heavy body with two blunt bone spars standing straight out from its shoulders.

Threat: Armour and bulk that soak plain hits
Counter: Elemental damage bypasses the plates

Armour 3

Tank·From wave 27

Mantlereap

HP: 380
Speed: 1.5 tiles/s
Base dmg: 4
Gold: 50

The heaviest scythe-arm: three folded claws a hand under a dark cloak of skin.

Threat: Armour under a cloak of skin
Counter: Elemental damage bypasses the plates

Armour 3

Anchor·From wave 32

Crestmaw

HP: 850
Speed: 1.5 tiles/s
Base dmg: 8
Gold: 130

A deep-chested bruiser with a wide gaping jaw and a feather cape over its shoulders.

Threat: The heaviest raptor - deep chest, wide jaw
Counter: Everything you have, focused

Herd

From the Bulbfoal calves to Combspire, the herd bull.

11 kinds·From wave 21·HP 35–3,000

Chaff·From wave 21

Bulbfoal

HP: 35
Speed: 0.9 tiles/s
Base dmg: 1
Gold: 5

A herd calf that is nearly all head: a round skull on a stub neck, a short tail and big young feet.

Threat: Numbers - the herd's calves come in crowds
Counter: Anything that hits more than one

Swarm·From wave 23

Forkcolt

HP: 105
Speed: 1.0 tiles/s
Base dmg: 1
Gold: 12

A light colt carried nose-out on a straight neck, its short tail splitting into a two-pronged fork.

Threat: A quick swarm of light colts
Counter: Chain and splash damage

Fast·From wave 26

Scutecolt

HP: 110
Speed: 1.1 tiles/s
Base dmg: 2
Gold: 16

A quick young longneck under a broad plate of bone, its neck and tail sticking out from under the shield.

Threat: A fast body that arrives early
Counter: Turrets that reach the lane where it enters

Mid-line·From wave 28

Bladebill

HP: 190
Speed: 0.6 tiles/s
Base dmg: 2
Gold: 27

A slim duck-bill that browses reared up, with a single fin of crest standing over its bare neck.

Threat: A steady mid-weight walker
Counter: Sustained single-target fire

Anchor·From wave 36

Broodhaul

HP: 1,200
Speed: 0.4 tiles/s
Base dmg: 6
Gold: 90

A broad herd cow hauling five calves on her back. At half health they jump off and walk on as five Bulbfoals.

Threat: At half health five calves jump off her back
Counter: Splash damage for the calves, focus for her

5 Bulbfoals at half health

Anchor·From wave 38

Slabback

3 hides

HP: 1,050
Speed: 0.5 tiles/s
Base dmg: 8
Gold: 95

A heavy longneck under a great slab of bone. This one is made of fire: the core of the slab is lit in the Plasma Torch's own colour, and fire damage barely marks it.

Threat: A heavy slab of a body with a fire hide
Counter: Hit it with anything BUT fire

Fire-resistant

A heavy longneck under a great slab of bone. This one is made of lightning: the core of the slab is lit in the Spark Coil's own colour, and lightning damage barely marks it.

Threat: A heavy slab of a body with a lightning hide
Counter: Hit it with anything BUT lightning

Lightning-resistant

A heavy longneck under a great slab of bone. This one is made of poison: the core of the slab is lit in the Toxin Injector's own colour, and poison damage barely marks it.

Threat: A heavy slab of a body with a poison hide
Counter: Hit it with anything BUT poison

Poison-resistant

Mid-line·From wave 31

Hammerwader

HP: 240
Speed: 0.6 tiles/s
Base dmg: 3
Gold: 30

A stilt-legged longneck carrying a wide, hammer-shaped head on the thinnest neck in the herd.

Threat: A steady mid-weight walker on long legs
Counter: Sustained single-target fire

Anchor·From wave 34

Fanhelm

HP: 1,450
Speed: 0.4 tiles/s
Base dmg: 8
Gold: 85

A short, heavy duck-bill with a wide, square-cut fan of crest behind its bill.

Threat: A heavy body that soaks a salvo
Counter: Focus fire before it reaches the base

Anchor·From wave 41

Combspire

HP: 3,000
Speed: 0.4 tiles/s
Base dmg: 12
Gold: 180

The herd bull: the longest neck below the boss, edged on both sides with a comb of bony flanges.

Threat: The heaviest regular body in the herd
Counter: Everything you have, focused

5 bosses. See them in the game.

A boss every ten waves, up to wave 50. Then the run goes endless.

Boss 01
Wave 10
Boss 02
Wave 20
Boss 03
Wave 30
Boss 04
Wave 40
Boss 05
Wave 50

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