Changes: Elite AT-AT

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Elite AT-AT

Unit Information

Unlocked by

Upgrading Hero Command

Produced at

Hero Command

Minimum Barracks, Factory, or Hero Command level required

5

Type

Hero

Class

Destroyer

Damage type

Standard

Favorite target

Shield Generator

Movement speed

10

Range

1-10 tiles

Can be upgraded to level

10

Availibility
Rebellion	Empire
No	Yes

The Elite AT-AT is an AT-AT with thicker armor plating and heavier laser cannons. It is piloted by an elite crew pulled from the best vehicle crews in the Empire.

Strategy

Offensive

The Elite AT-AT is identical to a normal AT-AT but with a much higher healthpool with superior long ranged damage. The Elite AT-AT is a slow but powerful juggernaut, on paper.

In practice, however, it has a key problem on an attack: the Shield Generator targeting preference. If any generators are on the enemy base it will lumber along in a straight line towards them only shooting at buildings directly in its movement path, completely ignoring the nearby turrets putting holes in it as it does so. It is paticularly vulnerable to Rocket Turrets and starship strikes.

A good tactic would be to put smaller units around it, acting as a vanguard, as the AT-AT trundles towards its objective. Once the shield generators are down, it will target anything closest to it, making the most out of its damage potential. Its weight also crushes any walls, it steps on, paving the way for its auxiliary forces.

Defensive

When employed on the defense (such as in a Heroic Defense event) it does have good damage output but its speed is crippling; in order for it to be able to get to multiple enemy units you will likely have to land it close to a dense cluster of them, who could therefore concentrate fire on it to destroy it far too quickly.

If you do intend to use it, try to land it in a way that it will move into the middle of your densest base cluster around the HQ firing outward at approaching units. This way it will hopefully last long enough to do some real damage.

Level	Damage per second	Health	Mobiliation cost	Mobilization time	Research cost	Research Lab lvl req.	Research time
1	1,800	24,000	1,000	3m 30s	N/A	N/A	N/A
2	2,161	28,800	1,400	3m 40s	5,000	2	1h 30m
3	2,521	33,600	1,800	3m 50s	10,000	3	3h
4	2,880	38,000	2,200	4m	20,000	4	8h
5	3,240	43,200	2,600	4m 10s	50,000	5	1d
6	3,601	48,000	3,000	4m 20s	135,000	6	3d
7	3,961	52,800	3,400	4m 30s	225,000	7	5d
8	4,320	57,600	3,800	4m 40s	450,000	8	1w

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 === Offensive ===
+The Elite AT-AT is identical to a normal AT-AT but with a much higher healthpool with superior long ranged damage. The Elite AT-AT is a slow but powerful juggernaut, on paper.
-With a very high health, excellent damage, long range and the ability to shoot over walls, the Elite AT-AT is a slow but powerful juggernaut at least on paper. In practice, however, it has a key problem on an attack: the Shield Generator targeting preference. If any generators are on the enemy base it will lumber along in a straight line towards them only shooting at buildings directly in its movement path, completely ignoring the nearby turrets putting holes in it as it does so. The unfortunate result is that it frequently gets destroyed before it has done very much if more than a single shield generator is present on the base.
+In practice, however, it has a key problem on an attack: the Shield Generator targeting preference. If any generators are on the enemy base it will lumber along in a straight line towards them only shooting at buildings directly in its movement path, completely ignoring the nearby turrets putting holes in it as it does so. It is paticularly vulnerable to Rocket Turrets and starship strikes.
+A good tactic would be to put smaller units around it, acting as a vanguard, as the AT-AT trundles towards its objective. Once the shield generators are down, it will target anything closest to it, making the most out of its damage potential. Its weight also crushes any walls, it steps on, paving the way for its auxiliary forces.
 === Defensive ===
-On the defense (such as in a Heroic Defense event) it does have good damage output but its speed is crippling; in order for it to be able to get to multiple enemy units you will likely have to land it close to a dense cluster of them, who could therefore concentrate fire on it to destroy it far too quickly. If you do intend to use it, try to land it in a way that it will move into the middle of your densest base cluster around the HQ firing outward at approaching units. This way it will hopefully last long enough to do some real damage.
+When employed on the defense (such as in a Heroic Defense event) it does have good damage output but its speed is crippling; in order for it to be able to get to multiple enemy units you will likely have to land it close to a dense cluster of them, who could therefore concentrate fire on it to destroy it far too quickly.
+If you do intend to use it, try to land it in a way that it will move into the middle of your densest base cluster around the HQ firing outward at approaching units. This way it will hopefully last long enough to do some real damage.
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