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|duties = Destroy marine defenses, t-bone marines, stomp on horizontal marine, yeet marines out of cadehugging, repeat
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|duties = Tear down marine defenses, provide crowd control, stomp on horizontal marines, play minesweeper, and chuck marines out from cover and into the loving arms of your fellow xenomorphs.
 
|guides = no separate guides
 
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|quote = "Today, the FOB will die."
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|quote = "New breach, 3 turrets and a mortar crushed to dust."
 
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=The Crusher=
 
One of the strongest Xenomorph castes and a valuable siege-breaker, the Crusher is a unique Xenomorph that leads front-line assaults, smashing through marines, obstacles, and anything else in its path.
 
==Playing the Crusher==
 
 
You play a vital role when pushing with xenomorphs and sieging against marines. You can
 
*Destroy barricades, walls, sandbags, and sentries with charge
 
*Avoid razorsharp obstacles
 
*Smash through marines with epic charing lanes
 
*Stomp horizontal marines
 
*Yeet cadehugging marines out of barricades with Crest Toss; while on Harm intent, Crest Fling will throw the target in front of the Crusher, otherwise, it will throw the target behind the Crusher.
 
 
When your '''charge''' is active, you will build up speed as you move forward in a straight line. This starts at 7 tiles of travel distance (one screen length) and increases until you reach your full speed, and you will hear a stomp sound as you begin to charge. You will do heavy damage to anything you smash into, and can run through many weaker objects like tables, lockers, etc.. You can also do damage at shorter distances (especially to soft human targets,) but not as much.<br><br>
 
Charging will constantly drain your plasma, so keep an eye on it as you will return to normal speed if you run out of plasma. It can also be deactivated to save plasma while moving. You also need to be aware of your position while you charge, as if you crash into a squad of marines hoping to kill some, you can be surrounded and body-blocked which might prevent you from escaping and let the marines gun you down. Your other abilities can help prevent this.<br><br>
 
'''Stomp''' and '''crest toss''' are your other important abilities most useful for crowd-control and securing captures for your team. It goes without saying that they're also very powerful in a one-on-one fight and you will be able to defeat almost any single marine when you're familiar with the Crusher's abilities.<br><br>
 
Crest Toss will throw a target that's directly in front of you up and over your head, sending them flying a few tiles behind you. This ability can even be used '''across barricades''', plucking the marine out of cover and tossing them into dangerous territory, making it a very versatile and powerful tool.
 
  
=Maturity Statistics and Evolution Paths=
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=Statistics and Evolution Path=
The Crusher is a Tier 3 and does not evolve further.
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The Crusher is a Tier 3 caste and does not evolve further.
  
Maturity increases stats as follows.
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* Slash the damage dealt when slashing marines. In the code, it is referred to as melee_damage.
* Slash is the melee damage when the xenomorph is in harm intent and slashing marine. In the code, it's melee_damage.
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* Melee, bullet, laser, energy, bomb, bio, rad, fire, and acid are soft armor values representing the percent reduction in damage received of that type. Most relevant in most cases are the "melee, bullet, laser, bomb, and fire" values.
* 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.
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* Speed is calculated inversely, meaning the lower speed value you have, the faster you are. Xenomorphs are always running, meaning they have a -1.0 boost added to their base speed. (Chart displays running speed)
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* Toss Distance is how many tiles you'll be able to fling something with Crest Toss.
  
 
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|style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:2px solid #cc6600; padding: 10px;" | <b>Age</b> || style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:2px solid #cc6600; padding: 10px;" | <b>Health</b> || style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:2px solid #cc6600; padding: 10px;" | <b>Plasma</b> || style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:2px solid #cc6600; padding: 10px;" | <b>Slash </b> || style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:2px solid #cc6600; padding: 10px;" | <b>Melee</b> || style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:2px solid #cc6600; padding: 10px;" | <b>Bullet</b> || style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:2px solid #cc6600; padding: 10px;" | <b>Laser</b> || style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:2px solid #cc6600; padding: 10px;" | <b>Energy</b> || style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:2px solid #cc6600; padding: 10px;" | <b>Bomb</b> || style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:2px solid #cc6600; padding: 10px;" | <b>Bio</b> || style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:2px solid #cc6600; padding: 10px;" | <b>Rad</b> || style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:2px solid #cc6600; padding: 10px;" | <b>Fire</b> || style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:2px solid #cc6600; padding: 10px;" | <b>Acid</b>
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|style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:2px solid #cc6600; padding: 10px;" | || style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:2px solid #cc6600; padding: 10px;" | <b>Health</b> || style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:2px solid #cc6600; padding: 10px;" | <b>Plasma</b> || style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:2px solid #cc6600; padding: 10px;" | <b>Slash [[File:Intent_Harm.png]] </b> || style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:2px solid #cc6600; padding: 10px;" | <b>Speed </b> || style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:2px solid #cc6600; padding: 10px;" | <b>Max Charge Speed </b> || style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:2px solid #cc6600; padding: 10px;" | <b>Melee</b> || style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:2px solid #cc6600; padding: 10px;" | <b>Bullet</b> || style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:2px solid #cc6600; padding: 10px;" | <b>Laser</b> || style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:2px solid #cc6600; padding: 10px;" | <b>Energy</b> || style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:2px solid #cc6600; padding: 10px;" | <b>Bomb</b> || style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:2px solid #cc6600; padding: 10px;" | <b>Bio</b> || style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:2px solid #cc6600; padding: 10px;" |<b>Fire</b> || style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:2px solid #cc6600; padding: 10px;" | <b>Acid</b> || style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:2px solid #cc6600; padding: 10px;" | <b>Crest Toss Distance</b>  
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|style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:2px solid #cc6600; padding: 5px;" | <b>Young</b> || 325 || 200 || 21 || x || x|| x|| x || TBH || x || x || x || x
 
|- style="border:2px solid #cc6600;"
 
|style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:2px solid #cc6600; padding: 5px;" | <b>Mature</b> || 345 || 300 || 21 || x || x|| x|| x || TBH || x || x || x || x
 
|- style="border:2px solid #cc6600;"
 
|style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:2px solid #cc6600; padding: 5px;" | <b>Elder</b> || 370 || 400 || 24 || x || x|| x|| x || TBH || x || x || x || x
 
 
|- style="border:2px solid #cc6600;"
 
|- style="border:2px solid #cc6600;"
|style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:2px solid #cc6600; padding: 5px;" | <b>Ancient</b> || 400 || 400 || 24 || x || x|| x|| x || TBH || x || x || x || x
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|style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:2px solid #cc6600; padding: 5px;" | <b>Base</b> || 400 || 400 || 24 || -1.1 || -3.2 || 90 || 75 || 75 || 75 || 130 || 100 || 40 || 100 || 6
 
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=Crusher Abilities=
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=The Crusher=
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The Crusher is a well armored bruiser and a valuable siege-breaker capable of destroying fortifications. The Crusher leads front-line assaults, smashing through almost anything in its path.
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==Playing the Crusher==
! scope="col" style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:3px solid #cc6600" | Ability !! scope="col" style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:3px solid #cc6600" | Description !! scope="col" style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:3px solid #cc6600" | Plasma Cost !! scope="col" style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:3px solid #cc6600" | Cooldown
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You are a caste vital for tearing down heavy fortifications and serving as a highly effective frontline troop capable of making openings for other xenomorphs to take advantage of. Your main objectives are:
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*Charge into barricades, walls, sandbags, and sentries to damage and destroy them.
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*Charge through lines of marines, knocking them over and making them vulnerable to your allies.
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*Stomp horizontal marines, inflicting serious injury.
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*Toss cadehugging marines out from behind barricades using Crest Toss. Ideally into the clutches of a waiting [[TGMC:Shrike|Shrike]].
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*Use Crest Toss to throw marines out of position or away from your injured allies.
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*Act as a highly potent bruiser, capable of taking heavy damage and dealing it right back at your foes.
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*Deliberately set off mines. You have the most explosive resistance of any caste and will take very little damage from them.
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*Keep in mind that while you are very strong and durable, you are less strong and durable than you think and focused fire will quickly kill you.
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While your '''Charge''' ability is active, you will begin to build up speed after traveling 7 tiles (one screen length) in a straight line. As soon as your Charge triggers you will make a stomping sound that both you and marines can hear. While in this state you are immune to staggering effects. As long as you continue to move in straight line you will steadily gain more momentum and speed until you reach your maximum speed at 14 tiles. The more momentum you build up, the more damage you will do to anything you collide with. Using charge you are able to run through weaker objects like tables, lockers, window frames, etc. but these objects are capable of slowing you or even stopping you if you have not built up enough speed. In general you want to take advantage of long straight corridors in which to charge through so you can maximize your effectiveness, but even without that you can still knock down marines and steadily tear up marines even with a weaker charge.
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There are a few important things to keep in mind while charging.
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*Charging will constantly drain your plasma, so manage it carefully as you will stop charging as soon as you run out of plasma. You can deactivate your '''Charge''' ability in order to conserve your plasma when you aren't charging.
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*Remember the '''help intent''' shuffle. You will often be charging into groups of marines that will try to body block you to prevent your retreat. You can't be body blocked as long as you are on '''help intent''', as it forces the marine to switch tiles with you. Switch to help intent as you try to move away from the marines and you will be able to freely move.
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*Be mindful of what you are charging into, the help intent shuffle will not save you from particularly dense crowds of marines or serious hazards.
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*Razor wire will ensnare you for five entire seconds if you run into it. If there's even a single marine around when this happens, you're probably dead.
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*Plasteel barricades are one of your greatest threats. Marines may open the barricade as you charge into it in order to let you inside their fortifications, before closing the barricade behind you. At this point you are trapped and will is most situations quickly get gunned down unless there is another opening to escape through. If it all possible focus down metal barricades or sandbags instead.
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*Charging into a turret instantly destroys it. Smart marines will put turrets behind plasteel barricates, but most will not. Take advantage if you can, but it's more important to avoid getting trapped than it is to kill a single sentry.
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'''Stomp''' and '''Crest Toss''' are your other abilities used for crowd-control and securing kills for your allies. They are moderately lethal in a one-on-one fight and you may be able to defeat marines lacking a shotgun when you're familiar with the Crusher's abilities, but it is always better to have backup.<br>
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'''Stomp''' is an ability intended for use when standing on top of a horizontal marine, or multiple, even if they manage to stand up while you share the tile. On activation you will crush the marine beneath your feet inflicting a ton of damage. Other castes such as [[TGMC:Praetorian|Praetorian]] are also good at knocking marines over and making them vulnerable to '''Stomp'''. Work well with your fellow xenomorphs and you will be incredibly effective.
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'''Crest Toss''' throws a target that's directly in front of you over your head, sending them flying a few tiles behind you while on any other intent other than '''harm intent'''. This ability can even be used '''across barricades''', tossing the marine out of cover and making them vulnerable to your allies. On '''harm intent''' the ability will instead throw the target a few tiles away from you, which can be incredibly useful for getting a marine away from a heavily injured ally. You can also use '''Crest Toss''' on xenomorphs. Think about it.
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Uniquely, the Crusher can also pick up smaller xenomorphs and carry them around, protecting them while giving them incredible mobility. This can be done by grabbing them and clicking on yourself, or them doing the same to you. This is best done with a Spitter, but they can't use their scatter spit while on your back, and they still have to stand still to use their acid spray. Do be extra careful however because they may still take a bit of damage while on top of you, and they are significantly less tanky than you. Crusher riding is about mildly effective, however it can become a deadly force when using rapid advance as a quick getaway. Using rapid advance to get away will allow you to charge in, crest throw and potentially stomp a marine, and with the added damage from a spitter it can be a deadly combo in the event you hit them with the charge.
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'''Rapid advance''' is most notably used for breaching in areas without enough space to get a run-up, and for quickly escaping a tough spot and crushing marines who aren't expecting a crusher to crush the same lane in the same 2 seconds. It has a fairly lengthy cooldown for an ability that can save your life and allow you to crush walls before marines can think to run away from the wall. Another big use of the ability is to allow yourself to quickly get out of a plasteel cade trap (where they open plasteels cades and close them before you can get out).
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Also, as being the xeno with the best armor, you absolutely need to be stuck to recovery pheros like a plasma-addict and any time your sundur goes down 25%, your survivability plumets to that of a slower warrior. Keeping yourself at 95% and above sundur is key to surviving. Asking a prae or the king to give out warding pheros will also more than double your survivability, albeit you will still take a LOT of sundur if you try to tank.
  
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! scope="row" style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:3px solid #cc6600"|[[File:bumpattacktoggle.gif|64px]]<br>Toggle Bump Attacks
 
|style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:3px solid #cc6600"|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. || style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:3px solid #cc6600"|N/A ||style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:3px solid #cc6600"| N/A
 
  
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! scope="row" style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:3px solid #ff7e00"|[[File:Resting.png|64px]]<br>Rest
 
|style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:3px solid #ff7e00"|This ability is used to rest and get up. You will heal only when resting on weeds and will also regenerate plasma faster.||style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:3px solid #ff7e00"| Easy ||style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:3px solid #ff7e00"| N/A
 
  
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=Crusher Abilities=
! scope="row" style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:3px solid #ff7e00"|[[File:TGMC_Headbite.png|64px]]<br>Psychic Drain
 
|style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:3px solid #ff7e00"|This ability is executed on dead marines. Every dead marines psyhic drained will give 60 psychic points and 1/8 of a larva. ||style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:3px solid #ff7e00"| 100 ||style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:3px solid #ff7e00"| Easy
 
  
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{{XenomorphAbilityTable
! scope="row" style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:3px solid #ff7e00"|[[File:Stomp.png|64px]]<br>Stomp
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|List=
|style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:3px solid #ff7e00"|Knocks all adjacent targets down and away 1 tile, and cause stamina damage out to 2 tiles. Can do heavy damage to targets you are standing on.||style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:3px solid #ff7e00"|Easy||style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:3px solid #ff7e00"| N/A
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{{ToggleBumpAttacks}}
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{{Rest}}
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{{PsyDrain}}
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{{ToggleCharging}}
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{{Stomp}}
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{{CrestToss}}
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=Primordial Evolution=
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Once the hive has enough psychic points, your queen has the option to unlock powerful primordial evolutions for each strain. Primordial evolutions grant additional abilities for the relevant class.
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For the Crusher, this primordial ability is '''Rapid Advance'''.
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{| class="wikitable"
 
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! scope="row" style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:3px solid #ff7e00"|[[File:Ready charge.png|64px]]<br>Toggle Charging
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! scope="col" style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:3px solid #cc6600" | Ability !! scope="col" style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:3px solid #cc6600" | Description !! scope="col" style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:3px solid #cc6600" | Plasma Cost !! scope="col" style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:3px solid #cc6600" | Cooldown
|style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:3px solid #ff7e00"|Toggle your charge on or off. Toggling off allows you to save plasma but you will move at normal speed and do no damage to objects you collide with.||style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:3px solid #ff7e00"| Intermediate||style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:3px solid #ff7e00"| N/A
 
 
 
 
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! scope="row" style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:3px solid #ff7e00"|[[File:Crest toss.png|64px]]<br>Crest Toss
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! scope="row" style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:3px solid #cc6600"|[[File:crest_defense.png|64px]]<br>Rapid Advance || style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:3px solid #cc6600"|Charges up the crushers charge, then unleashes the full bulk of the crusher into a direction. Any direction can be chosen, not only cardinal ones. ||style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:3px solid #cc6600"| 175 || style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:3px solid #cc6600"|30
|style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:3px solid #ff7e00"|Throw an adjacent target to your front over and behind you, sending them flying up to 5 tiles and doing damage. Also works '''across barricades'''.||style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:3px solid #ff7e00"| Intermediate ||style="background:#312d43; color: white; border:3px solid #ff7e00"| N/A
 
 
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=Tips & Tricks=
 
=Tips & Tricks=
*Your charge is just as good at destroying marine squads as it is breaking down barricades, but be careful how you use it. Don't be afraid to pull back before you charge through a group of marines if there are too many and it looks like you could be trapped. Play carefully and remember to use stomp and crest toss to get yourself out of a bad position.
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*Charging through a sentry will tip it over and render them useless unless marines put the sentry back atop.
*Your crest provides more armor than your sides and back, so when you can, point it in the direction you're being fired on from for better protection.
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*Your charge is just as good at destroying marine squads as it is breaking down barricades, but be careful how you use it. Don't be afraid to pull back before you charge through a group of marines if there are too many and it looks like you could be trapped. Play carefully and remember to use help intent and crest toss to get yourself out of a bad position.
*Young Crushers often die from being overconfident. Xenomorphs grow stronger as they age, so be careful and stay alive—you are a very valuable asset to your hive and become very tanky as you mature.
 
 
*Crushers are very strong fighters overall, so don't be afraid to fight alongside other melee castes. You don't always have to be ramming things.
 
*Crushers are very strong fighters overall, so don't be afraid to fight alongside other melee castes. You don't always have to be ramming things.
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*Bodyblock for downed xenos when you can, but remember that you're actually less resilient than a fortifying Defender, and far more valuable at tier 3 than they are at tier 1. Don't get carried away.
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*Sadly, you cannot damage tanks with your charge, and the tanks main cannon may very well strip you of a lot of armor. You are still immune to explosives though so you are the best xeno to take shells from it and shrug them off to keep the tank from attacks the castes that can deal more damage to the tank.
 
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UNDEFINED XENO
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Crusher

Difficulty: Intermediate
Rank: Hatchling (Starting), Young (10hrs), Mature (25hrs), Elder (70 hrs), Ancient (175 hrs)
Duties: Tear down marine defenses, provide crowd control, stomp on horizontal marines, play minesweeper, and chuck marines out from cover and into the loving arms of your fellow xenomorphs.
Guides: no separate guides
Quote: "New breach, 3 turrets and a mortar crushed to dust."


Statistics and Evolution Path

The Crusher is a Tier 3 caste and does not evolve further.

  • Slash the damage dealt when slashing marines. In the code, it is referred to as melee_damage.
  • Melee, bullet, laser, energy, bomb, bio, rad, fire, and acid are soft armor values representing the percent reduction in damage received of that type. Most relevant in most cases are the "melee, bullet, laser, bomb, and fire" values.
  • Speed is calculated inversely, meaning the lower speed value you have, the faster you are. Xenomorphs are always running, meaning they have a -1.0 boost added to their base speed. (Chart displays running speed)
  • Toss Distance is how many tiles you'll be able to fling something with Crest Toss.
Health Plasma Slash Intent Harm.png Speed Max Charge Speed Melee Bullet Laser Energy Bomb Bio Fire Acid Crest Toss Distance
Base 400 400 24 -1.1 -3.2 90 75 75 75 130 100 40 100 6

The Crusher

The Crusher is a well armored bruiser and a valuable siege-breaker capable of destroying fortifications. The Crusher leads front-line assaults, smashing through almost anything in its path.

Playing the Crusher

You are a caste vital for tearing down heavy fortifications and serving as a highly effective frontline troop capable of making openings for other xenomorphs to take advantage of. Your main objectives are:

  • Charge into barricades, walls, sandbags, and sentries to damage and destroy them.
  • Charge through lines of marines, knocking them over and making them vulnerable to your allies.
  • Stomp horizontal marines, inflicting serious injury.
  • Toss cadehugging marines out from behind barricades using Crest Toss. Ideally into the clutches of a waiting Shrike.
  • Use Crest Toss to throw marines out of position or away from your injured allies.
  • Act as a highly potent bruiser, capable of taking heavy damage and dealing it right back at your foes.
  • Deliberately set off mines. You have the most explosive resistance of any caste and will take very little damage from them.
  • Keep in mind that while you are very strong and durable, you are less strong and durable than you think and focused fire will quickly kill you.


While your Charge ability is active, you will begin to build up speed after traveling 7 tiles (one screen length) in a straight line. As soon as your Charge triggers you will make a stomping sound that both you and marines can hear. While in this state you are immune to staggering effects. As long as you continue to move in straight line you will steadily gain more momentum and speed until you reach your maximum speed at 14 tiles. The more momentum you build up, the more damage you will do to anything you collide with. Using charge you are able to run through weaker objects like tables, lockers, window frames, etc. but these objects are capable of slowing you or even stopping you if you have not built up enough speed. In general you want to take advantage of long straight corridors in which to charge through so you can maximize your effectiveness, but even without that you can still knock down marines and steadily tear up marines even with a weaker charge.
There are a few important things to keep in mind while charging.

  • Charging will constantly drain your plasma, so manage it carefully as you will stop charging as soon as you run out of plasma. You can deactivate your Charge ability in order to conserve your plasma when you aren't charging.
  • Remember the help intent shuffle. You will often be charging into groups of marines that will try to body block you to prevent your retreat. You can't be body blocked as long as you are on help intent, as it forces the marine to switch tiles with you. Switch to help intent as you try to move away from the marines and you will be able to freely move.
  • Be mindful of what you are charging into, the help intent shuffle will not save you from particularly dense crowds of marines or serious hazards.
  • Razor wire will ensnare you for five entire seconds if you run into it. If there's even a single marine around when this happens, you're probably dead.
  • Plasteel barricades are one of your greatest threats. Marines may open the barricade as you charge into it in order to let you inside their fortifications, before closing the barricade behind you. At this point you are trapped and will is most situations quickly get gunned down unless there is another opening to escape through. If it all possible focus down metal barricades or sandbags instead.
  • Charging into a turret instantly destroys it. Smart marines will put turrets behind plasteel barricates, but most will not. Take advantage if you can, but it's more important to avoid getting trapped than it is to kill a single sentry.



Stomp and Crest Toss are your other abilities used for crowd-control and securing kills for your allies. They are moderately lethal in a one-on-one fight and you may be able to defeat marines lacking a shotgun when you're familiar with the Crusher's abilities, but it is always better to have backup.
Stomp is an ability intended for use when standing on top of a horizontal marine, or multiple, even if they manage to stand up while you share the tile. On activation you will crush the marine beneath your feet inflicting a ton of damage. Other castes such as Praetorian are also good at knocking marines over and making them vulnerable to Stomp. Work well with your fellow xenomorphs and you will be incredibly effective.
Crest Toss throws a target that's directly in front of you over your head, sending them flying a few tiles behind you while on any other intent other than harm intent. This ability can even be used across barricades, tossing the marine out of cover and making them vulnerable to your allies. On harm intent the ability will instead throw the target a few tiles away from you, which can be incredibly useful for getting a marine away from a heavily injured ally. You can also use Crest Toss on xenomorphs. Think about it.

Uniquely, the Crusher can also pick up smaller xenomorphs and carry them around, protecting them while giving them incredible mobility. This can be done by grabbing them and clicking on yourself, or them doing the same to you. This is best done with a Spitter, but they can't use their scatter spit while on your back, and they still have to stand still to use their acid spray. Do be extra careful however because they may still take a bit of damage while on top of you, and they are significantly less tanky than you. Crusher riding is about mildly effective, however it can become a deadly force when using rapid advance as a quick getaway. Using rapid advance to get away will allow you to charge in, crest throw and potentially stomp a marine, and with the added damage from a spitter it can be a deadly combo in the event you hit them with the charge.

Rapid advance is most notably used for breaching in areas without enough space to get a run-up, and for quickly escaping a tough spot and crushing marines who aren't expecting a crusher to crush the same lane in the same 2 seconds. It has a fairly lengthy cooldown for an ability that can save your life and allow you to crush walls before marines can think to run away from the wall. Another big use of the ability is to allow yourself to quickly get out of a plasteel cade trap (where they open plasteels cades and close them before you can get out).

Also, as being the xeno with the best armor, you absolutely need to be stuck to recovery pheros like a plasma-addict and any time your sundur goes down 25%, your survivability plumets to that of a slower warrior. Keeping yourself at 95% and above sundur is key to surviving. Asking a prae or the king to give out warding pheros will also more than double your survivability, albeit you will still take a LOT of sundur if you try to tank.


Crusher Abilities

Ability Description Plasma Cost Cooldown
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Toggle Bump Attacks
Allows you to toggle bump attacks on and off. This allows you to slash any enemy creature by running into them. The red arrow means it's on, you attack when on HARM intent; the green arrow means it's off, you push when on HARM intent. N/A N/A
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Rest
Used to rest and get up. You heal faster when resting on weeds. N/A 2 seconds
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Psy Drain
This ability is used on dead Marines. For every Marine's psyche drained, the Hive will gain between 30 and 90 psychic points, depending on the number of Marines spawned; and 1/8 of a larva. 50 N/A
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Toggle Charging
Toggles charging while moving. Speed and plasma consumption scales with how long you have been moving in one direction. Unable to charge diagonally. Upon contact with an entity, you will deal roughly 22.5 brute damage while still charging. Avg. 3 per tile N/A
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Stomp
Inlicts a lot of damage and stuns all targets on the same tile. Knocks down all adjacent targets briefly and tosses them a tile away, hurting them a bit. 100 20 Seconds
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Crest Toss
Throws an adjacent target behind you, sending them flying 3-6 tiles away and doing damage. Works across barricades. If on harm intent, Crest Toss will instead throw the target away from you. 100 12 Seconds

Primordial Evolution

Once the hive has enough psychic points, your queen has the option to unlock powerful primordial evolutions for each strain. Primordial evolutions grant additional abilities for the relevant class.
For the Crusher, this primordial ability is Rapid Advance.

Ability Description Plasma Cost Cooldown
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Rapid Advance
Charges up the crushers charge, then unleashes the full bulk of the crusher into a direction. Any direction can be chosen, not only cardinal ones. 175 30

Tips & Tricks

  • Charging through a sentry will tip it over and render them useless unless marines put the sentry back atop.
  • Your charge is just as good at destroying marine squads as it is breaking down barricades, but be careful how you use it. Don't be afraid to pull back before you charge through a group of marines if there are too many and it looks like you could be trapped. Play carefully and remember to use help intent and crest toss to get yourself out of a bad position.
  • Crushers are very strong fighters overall, so don't be afraid to fight alongside other melee castes. You don't always have to be ramming things.
  • Bodyblock for downed xenos when you can, but remember that you're actually less resilient than a fortifying Defender, and far more valuable at tier 3 than they are at tier 1. Don't get carried away.
  • Sadly, you cannot damage tanks with your charge, and the tanks main cannon may very well strip you of a lot of armor. You are still immune to explosives though so you are the best xeno to take shells from it and shrug them off to keep the tank from attacks the castes that can deal more damage to the tank.


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Roles

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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, Pyrogen
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