Hailstorm


Hailstorm
Unit Type	Artillery-Metal
Player Level Req.	Level 21
Building Required	Vehicle Factory level 4
Other Requirements	Rocket Factory
Immunities	Breach Plague
Blocking	Partial
Defense (Max Rank)	135 75%

"Do you feel the storm that’s brewin’? As its name indicates, this unit hails a squall of beat down on the enemy. Light Rockets deliver a triple strike on units at any distance..."

— 1.4 Patch Notes

Overview[]

The Hailstorm is an artillery unit with a one-shot attack that affects a large area. It shares a similar attack to the Hornet, an infantry unit introduced in the same patch.

Although it can only fire once before its long reload time, it dishes out much more damage. Its rockets will strike the entire highlighted 3x3 area, but the damage is reduced significantly in the spaces surrounding the targeted center space, sometimes missing completely. The rockets appear to behave in a manner that they hit the target square and the two adjacent squares beside it in the same row. The rockets are pretty effective against targets who are close together, or for hitting anything hiding in the rear rows. Given its somewhat random nature, avoid using this on any spread-out formations or formations that form a line.

Whilst there are vehicles available that have triple strike abilities that work in the same manner as the Hailstorm, they usually require Nanopods to build, as well as extra Nanopods to buy the attacks. This makes the Hailstorm a worthwhile investment for lower level players short on Nanopods.

Attacks[]

Light Rockets

Ammo:

2

Reload:

8 Rounds

Attack Icon

Targetable Unit Types
Air
LTA
Soldier
Sniper
Vehicle
Tank
Metal
Critter
Civilian
Sea
Ship

Rank Available

1

Range

1-5

Line of Fire

Indirect (Random)

Ammo Used

2

Suppression Mod

x1.5

Rank

1

2

3

4

5

6

Damage

32-48 (x3)

35-52 (x3)

38-57 (x3)

41-62 (x3)

44-67 (x3)

48-72 (x3)

Offense

46

51

56

61

66

71

Crit

5%

Statistics[]

Hailstorm Ranks
	1	2	3	4	5	6
SP	N/A	1,730	4,220	9,975	21,500	78,650
HP	90	100 (+10)	110 (+10)	115 (+5)	125 (+10)	135 (+10)
Bravery	15	20 (+5)	25 (+5)	30 (+5)	35 (+5)	40 (+5)
Defense	45	50 (+5)	55 (+5)	60 (+5)	65 (+5)	70 (+5)
Dodge	30	35 (+5)	40 (+5)	45 (+5)	50 (+5)	55 (+5)
Promotion Cost	N/A	4h 5,872 4,375	12h 18,096 2,925	1d 48,960 3,975 7	2d 116,064 5,200 20	2d 228,612 6,575 5
Promotion Reward	N/A	1,000	1,800	2,800	4,000	5,400
PvP Unit Value	9	11	13	14	16	18
SP Reward	36	44	52	56	64	72
Gold Reward	180	220	260	280	320	360

Cost[]

Training Cost — Vehicle Factory
Level	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
Time	20h 42m	19h 48m	18h 54m	18h	17h 6m	16h 12m	14h 24m	12h 36m	10h 48m	9h	7h 12m	5h 24m
Gold	8,000	8,000	8,000	8,000	8,000	8,000	7,600	7,200	6,800	6,400	6,000	5,600
Iron	1,500	1,500	1,500	1,500	1,500	1,500	1,425	1,350	1,275	1,200	1,125	1,050
Oil	600	600	600	600	600	600	570	540	510	480	450	420

Healing Cost
Level	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Time	4h 30m	4h 30m	4h 30m	4h 30m	4h 30m	4h 3m	3h 36m	3h 9m	2h 42m	1h 48m
Gold	6,900	5,750	4,600	4,140	3,680	3,220	2,990	2,760	2,530	2,300
Iron	1,013	844	675	608	540	473	439	405	372	338
Oil	270	225	180	162	144	126	117	108	99	90

Healing Cost
Level	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Time	4h 3m	4h 3m	4h 3m	4h 3m	4h 3m	3h 36m	3h 9m	2h 42m	2h 15m	1h 21m
Gold	5,980	4,830	3,680	3,220	2,760	2,300	2,070	1,840	1,610	1,380
Iron	878	709	540	473	405	338	304	270	237	203
Oil	234	189	144	126	108	90	81	72	63	54

Trivia[]

It appears to be based on the Soviet Katyusha rocket launcher according to its appearance and also as suggested by the name of its image file. Also, the real Katyusha is known as an inaccurate way of saturating a large area with massive amounts of Rockets, but took longer than conventional artillery to reload. This too seems remarkably similar to the Hailstorm.
Despite no visible reloading mechanism is seen, the hailstorm always has it's three missiles reloaded after a shot.