Lancer

Lancer

Fast human-sized combat mechanoids built for medium and long-range combat. Their bodies are light, making them vulnerable targets at close range - especially in melee combat.

Base Stats

Type

Mechanoid

Market Value

1200 

Mechanoid

Bandwidth Cost

3

Armor

Armor - Sharp

40%

Armor - Blunt

20%

Armor - Heat

200%

Pawn Stats

Combat Power

180

Move Speed

4.7 c/s

Health Scale

72% HP

Body Size

1

Mass

60 kg

Pack Capacity

35 kg

Carrying Capacity

75 kg

Filth Rate

1

Life Expectancy

2500 years

Comfortable Temp Range

-100 °C – 250 °C (-148 °F – 482 °F)

Melee Combat

Attack 1

Left fist
12 dmg (Blunt)
18 % AP
2 second cooldown

Attack 2

Right fist
12 dmg (Blunt)
18 % AP
2 second cooldown

Attack 3

Head
8.5 dmg (Blunt)
13 % AP
2 second cooldown
0.2 chance factor

Average DPS

3.72

Creation

Crafted At

Required Research

High mechtech

Gestation Cycles

2

Resources to make

75 + 75 + 4 + 1

Technical

weaponTags

MechanoidGunMedium

Lancers are a type of fast-moving mechanoid, with strong mid-long range firepower.

Acquisition

Lancers can be gestated by a mechanitor at a large mech gestator once the high mechtech research project has been completed. Note that this research requires a powerfocus chip to unlock. Each requires  75 Steel,  75 Plasteel,  4 Components,  1 Standard subcore and 2 gestation cycles taking 1,800 ticks (30 secs) each to initiate. They take up 3 bandwidth from their linked mechanitor.

Dead, friendly lancers can also be resurrected at the large mech gestator using the "Resurrect medium mechanoid" bill. This requires the corpse of the friendly Lancer,  50 steel, and 1 gestation cycle taking 1,800 ticks (30 secs) to initiate.

Summary

As mechanoids, every lancer is immune to fire, Flame and Heat damage, and temperature extremes, despite having Comfortable Temperatures defined. They have 100% Toxic Resistance and Toxic Environment Resistance, making them immune to toxic buildup, rot stink and other toxic effects. They do not need to eat, rest, and have no mood. They will be stunned by EMP attacks for a time proportional to the EMP damage inflicted and will "adapt" and rendered immune to further EMP strikes for 2,200 ticks (36.67 secs).

Dead lancers may be shredded at a machining table or crafting spot for  15 steel, though these values are affected by mechanoid shredding efficiency as well as any missing parts on the lancer.

Mechs under player control require power: lancers use 10% of their power per day while active. If set to dormant self-charging, they instead recharge for 1% power / day, without pollution. They recharge in a large mech recharger (400W), for 50% power/day, creating 15 wastepacks whenever the recharger's waste is filled up.

As an enemy

Mechanoids can raid the player's base through events, and are found in most poison ships, psychic ships, and mech clusters.

Lancers are fast-moving attackers. They will seek out colonists until they can fire, in which they will stay at maximum range to fire. While defending stationary threat (like a psychic ship), mechanoids will only continue to chase if a colonist is a close enough. They will not move around to seek cover, or avoid incoming fighters. They tend to run ahead of slower mechanoids like centipedes, and won't stop to let them catch up. Their armor is not especially good, so lancers aren't difficult to take out.

Combat

Lancers come equipped with the charge lance of Normal quality, which can deal 30 damage per hit from a range of over 29.9 tiles.

Lancers have a shooting accuracy of 96%, equivalent to a pawn with a Shooting skill of 8. They have a melee hit chance of 62%, equivalent to a pawn with a Melee skill of 4.

Effect of its armor on melee damage

Analysis

As an enemy

Main article: Defense tactics#Lancers

The DPS of a lancer might be weak compared to a centipede or scyther, but their slow-firing charge lance deals tremendous one-shot damage, enough to take out exposed limbs and organs in 1 hit. They don't fire very often, but when they do, it hurts.

Lancers are vulnerable to spike traps, with only a few required to kill them. They should be priority targets during the early game, as your pawns will likely lack armor to prevent dismemberment.

As the description says, charging lancers can be a viable way to take them down, once you have taken care of any scythers.

As an ally

Lancers are analagous to human colonists. They move at similar speeds (and are slightly faster), have a similar health, and even use a human weapon. While they don't have quite the same firepower as a centipede (let alone bulk), lancers move much faster, allowing them to be used in strategies alongside ordinary colonists. As a lancer feels no pain and is easily repaired, they should be on the frontlines, and can be used in generally riskier positions than their organic counterparts.

Tesserons are another ranged, fast, medium-size mechanoid. Lancers are better against high armored targets, like other mechanoids, or when targets arrive in low numbers: whenever separated, killed quickly in a killbox, or when their actual quantity is low. Meanwhile, a tesseron's beam graser excels at hitting clumped up groups, such as tribals. The legionary is another fast mechanoid, but is clearly meant for shield utility rather than raw combat.

Health

Biology

Lancers, although mechanical and not very human-looking, are actually almost the same in structure as a typical human (minus the organs). However, they're more durable than humans, don't feel pain and do not fear for their life - they don't even use cover. This can make them very dangerous to fight against when under-armed.

They have two arms, run on two legs, and (surprisingly) have a neck and make vocal communication. Why a machine would use standard human-like air-based vocalization is unknown at this time - especially when Centipedes are completely unable to manually communicate.

Diet

Player lancers can be recharged with regular power. However, enemy mechanoids don't require power at all, and even gestated variants can get "free" power when entering dormancy. It is unknown where their power comes from.

Body parts

Body Part Name	Health	Quantity	Coverage	Target Chance	Subpart of	Internal	Capacity	Effect if Destroyed/Removed
Thorax	28.8	1	100%	2%	N/A		-	Death Will never take permanent injury
Neck	21.6	1	10%	2%	Thorax		Communication	Death Will never take permanent injury
Head	21.6	1	80%	2.7%	Neck		-	Death Will never take permanent injury
Artificial Brain	7.2	1	10%	0.8%	Head		Data Processing	Death Will never take permanent injury
Sight Sensor	7.2	2	13%	1%	Head		Sight	−25% Sight. −100% if both lost. Will never take permanent injury
Hearing Sensor	7.2	2	10%	0.8%	Head		Hearing	−25% Hearing. −100% if both lost. Will never take permanent injury
Chemical Analyzer	7.2	1	10%	0.8%	Head		-	Will never take permanent injury
Mechanical Shoulder	18	2	17%	2.5%	Thorax		Manipulation	−50% Manipulation. Will never take permanent injury
Arm	21.6	2	85%	12%	Mechanical Shoulder		Manipulation	−50% Manipulation. Will never take permanent injury
Hand	14.4	2	20%	1.2%	Arm		Manipulation	−50% Manipulation. Will never take permanent injury
Finger	5.04	8	15%	0.43%	Hand		Manipulation	−10% Manipulation. Will never take permanent injury
Leg	21.6	2	20%	20%	Thorax		Moving	−50% Moving. Will never take permanent injury
Foot	14.4	2	20%	4%	Leg		Moving	−50% Moving. Will never take permanent injury
Reactor	14.4	1	6%	6%	Thorax		Power Generation	Death Will never take permanent injury
Fluid Reprocessor	10.8	2	4%	4%	Thorax		Fluid Reprocessing	Death if both lost −50% Fluid reprocessing Will never take permanent injury

Trivia

A real life “Lancer” is a soldier who is armed with a Lance, and while the Lancer isn’t armed with a traditional lance, the charge lance variant they wield gives them their “Lancer” status.

Gallery

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  Age 0-99 Lancer facing east

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  Age 0-99 Lancer facing north

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  Age 0-99 Lancer facing south

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  Age 100+ Lancer facing east

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  Age 100+ Lancer facing north

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  Age 100+ Lancer facing south

Version history

• Beta 19 - Introduced. Previously, scythers could wield charge lances.
• Beta 19/1.0 - Now dies when downed.
• 1.1 - Now have 200% heat armor, rendering them immune to regular fire damage. Charge lances were nerfed, reducing the range and accuracy of lancers in the process.
• Biotech DLC - Introduced ability to create and control mechanoids.
• 1.4.3555 - Bandwidth cost increased from 2 to 3.
• 1.4.3641 - Fix: Lancer shoulder parts labels inconsistent.

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Mechanoids

Mechanoids | Core

Centipede (Blaster, Burner, Gunner) • Lancer • Pikeman • Scyther • Termite

Combat

Centurion • Legionary • Militor • Scorcher • Tesseron

Command

Apocriton • Diabolus • War queen (War urchin )

Labor

Agrihand • Cleansweeper • Constructoid • Fabricor • Lifter • Paramedic • Tunneler

Cluster | Buildings

Condition causer • Count-down activator • Mech assembler • Mech capsule • Mech drop beacon • Mech high-shield • Mech low-shield • Mech node • Proximity activator • Unstable power cell

Turrets

Auto charge turret • Auto inferno turret • Auto mortar • Mini-slugger turret

Creation | Pawn

Mechanitor

Buildings

Mech gestator • Large mech gestator • Mechband antenna • Mechband dish