TGMC:Defender

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UNDEFINED XENO
Defender	Difficulty: Medium Rank: Hatchling (Starting), Young (10hrs), Mature (25hrs), Elder (70 hrs), Ancient (175 hrs) Duties: Be the toughest tier 1 xeno, attract attention, but not too much yet. Guides: no separate guides Quote: "Defense! Defense! Defense!"

The Defender

The Defender is a combat caste, focused on being the "tank" of any group of tier 1 xenos, and one of the most lethal xenos at tier 1. Defenders ensure that they can endure dense firing lanes while hurting marines in the process of eating lead.

Playing the WALL

As a Defender, your expecatations are

• Protecting boilers
• Taking more shots to kill than any other xeno at tier 1 with crest defense, fortify, and regenerating skin
• Stunning marines with tail sweep and forward charge
• Comboing abilties with one's toolkit and with other xenomorphs

It is important for a defender to be able to combo its abilities together efficiently, or your damage will be severely limited. Learning about other xenomorphs' abilities and pushing with sisters help you punch out more damage for your buck.

You can still slash in fortify!!

After taking a chunk of lead, you will accumulate sunder, which you can heal by regenerating skin. While you do need to rest for your health, you don't need to worry about sunder.

Combos

Combo 1

• Close distance between you and marine
• Tail sweep when close
• Crest Defense when dealing with marines' retaliation
• Either Forward Charge to stun more or to retreat

Maturity Statistics and Evolution Paths

Defenders are born to evolve into Warriors and then eventually Crushers.
Maturity increases stats as follows.

• Slash is the melee damage when the xenomorph is in harm intent and slashing marine. In the code, it's melee_damage.
• Melee, bullet, laser, energy, bomb, bio, rad, fire, and acid are soft armor values, not hard armor, which means that they reduce damage by a percentage rather than a flat value.

Age	Health	Plasma	Slash	Melee	Bullet	Laser	Energy	Bomb	Bio	Rad	Fire	Acid
Young	260	150	17	30	30	25	20	60	20	20	30	20
Mature	280	175	17	33	33	28	25	60	25	25	33	25
Elder	300	190	21	35	35	30	28	60	28	28	35	28
Ancient	320	200	21	40	40	40	40	60	30	30	40	30

Defender Abilities

Ability	Description	Plasma Cost	Cooldown
Toggle Bump Attacks	This ability allows you to toggle bump attacks on and off. If for some reason you want to avoid them, toggle this off. The red arrow means it's on; the green arrow means it's off.	N/A	N/A
Rest	This ability is used to rest and get up, you will heal faster when resting on weeds.	Easy	N/A
Psychic Drain	This ability is executed on dead marines. Every dead marines psyhic drained will give 60 psychic points and 1/8 of a larva.	100	Easy
Crest Defense	Lowers your crest, slightly increasing your defense, at the cost of agility.	Medium	N/A
Fortify	Squat your body down and tuck your head down into your torso, exposing only the hardest parts of your exoskeleton. Greatly increases defense. You can still slash in fortify!!	Medium	N/A
Tail Sweep	Does a 360 degree tail sweep in a 1 tile radius all directions from your current tile, knocking marines over and back.	Easy	N/A
Forward Charge	Charge up to 4 tiles and knockdown any targets in our way.	Easy	N/A
Regenerate Skin	Regenerate your hard exoskeleton skin, restoring some health and removing all sunder.	Medium	N/A

Defender tips & tricks

• Always try to eat bullets for your xeno buddies.
• If you're just purely tanking for the boiler, hit that FAT fortify.
• If you're covering other xeno's retreat, HIT THAT FAT CREST BUTTON

TGMC Roles
	TerraGov Marines Ranks	Command	Captain, Field Commander, Staff Officer, Pilot Officer, Transport Officer, Mech Pilot
		Vehicle Crew	Assault Crewman, Transport Crewman
		Engineering and Supply	Chief Ship Engineer, Requisitions Officer, Ship Technician
		Medical	Chief Medical Officer, Medical Doctor, Researcher
		Marines	Squad Leader, Squad Smartgunner, Squad Engineer, Squad Corpsman, Squad Marine
		Civilians	Corporate Liaison
		Silicon	Combat robots, Synthetic, AI
	Xenomorphs Playtime	Tier 0	Larva, Minions
		Tier 1	Drone, Runner, Defender, Sentinel
		Tier 2	Hivelord, Carrier, Hunter, Wraith, Bull, Warrior, Puppeteer, Spitter
		Tier 3	Gorger, Defiler, Widow, Ravager, Warlock, Behemoth, Crusher, Praetorian, Boiler
		Tier 4	Shrike, Queen, King, Hivemind
	Others		Zombie, Emergency Response Teams, Sons of Mars, Survivor