New troop

I had a cool idea for a troop that can go in the dark Barrack. "The ghoul"
It floats just slightly above the ground, able to go through walls, but with a very weak usual attack. It will scratch at buildings causing them very little damage. (Here's the good part) any defensive tower that attacks it, the ghoul will target first and attack that defense with the exact same attack style and power that the defense is using. As well, all defenses can attack it since it is close enough to the ground for cannons to hit it and mortars splash, as well it is technically a flying unit. The attacks from the ghoul would be much slower then the defense usually does. As well, if more then 1 defense is attacking the ghoul, it will use all defenses attacks on one defense at a time.

(I know this may be hard to follow but bear with me) say a ghoul is getting attacked by a level 4 cannon and a level 4 air defense both at the same time. Well the ghoul will attack the closest one of those with a level 4 cannon shot and a level 4 air defense shot until either the closer defense dies, or the ghoul does. Once one of the defenses gets destroyed, the ghoul would go to the other one using only the attack of that defense. Once it is no longer being targeted by any defense, it will find the nearest tower to scratch at.

I was thinking this troop could be worth 50de to start off and have a somewhat slow speed (witch speed). It would have a scratching attack of only 20hp per second but attack every 1.5 seconds. When being targeted would attack that defense with __hp attacking every 1.5 seconds. It would have a health of 200 so that way it's not to weak and not to strong.

I know my idea is really jumbled but if you can understand it please comment and if not tell me how I can clarify it more

the ghoul sound like an interesting idea, but i dont think the "mirrored hitpoints" would work out.

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Originally Posted by SimonY

the ghoul sound like an interesting idea, but i dont think the "mirrored hitpoints" would work out.

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why would it not workout? As its getting hit it can easily go towards what is hitting it and shoot the same thing back with a slower speed.

Like the idea its very interesting

pet peeve of mine: ambigous titles - the sticky specificaly says to use descriptive titles. try to inclide at least the unit name in any future idea posts

the unit sounds interesting, a simmilar mirroring mechanic was mentioned earlier (perhaps by you). however explaining what the unit does in a barracks description would be challenging; after all some people post questions on this forum like "why do my giants attack cannons first?"

the hybrid ground air unit is interesting, but the air defence does ridiculously large damage compared to ground defences, making it bard to balance

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Originally Posted by Keaton

pet peeve of mine: ambigous titles - the sticky specificaly says to use descriptive titles. try to inclide at least the unit name in any future idea posts

the unit sounds interesting, a simmilar mirroring mechanic was mentioned earlier (perhaps by you). however explaining what the unit does in a barracks description would be challenging; after all some people post questions on this forum like "why do my giants attack cannons first?"

the hybrid ground air unit is interesting, but the air defence does ridiculously large damage compared to ground defences, making it bard to balance

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First of all I'm sorry about that, I don't want to say stuff about my troop directly in the title only because people will judge it before reading and not know my full idea

secondly, they could word it like " this creature comes to haunt defenses with their own attacks. The more shot at him, the more he will shoot back." If people ask questions then they can simply try out the creature and see how it works



finally, I did not really think of that much. The only ways I could see this working out is if the troop has half damage from air defense or if these troops can have a small space they take up so you can have multiple units all at once. But this could also be a weakness to them. Much like healers die relatively quickly with air defense, you might have to plan well to make sure it doesn't charge the ghoul