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The Lantern Engine, a siege troop of the Star-Fallen

Star-Fallen · Siege · Signature

Lantern Engine

A hull-lamp turned around. What it points at stops being there in a straight line.

Armour-breaker · ignores plate

Stats

Health
130
Damage
29per hit
Damage per second
13.2
Attacks every
2.2s
Range
250
Move speed
36
Sight
255how far it spots a foe
Population
3of the army cap
Raise
2,250gold, in battle
Armory
1,400gold, to unlock

These are the Lantern Engine's own figures, the ones the Armory prints. In battle the Star-Fallen's trait is added on top: +3% range. Range, reach and speed are in the battlefield's own units.

Special powers

Strong and weak

Strong: Buildings, lanes.

Weak: Anything fast.

As a siege troop, it deals extra damage to Titan (×1.3), Legend (×1.25), Construct (×1.5) and Levy (×1.2) troops.

Ranged (×1.3) troops deal extra damage to it.

Raising it

The Lantern Engine comes out of its own spawner, which your Builder raises for 2,250 gold in the middle of a battle. Once it stands it musters a Lantern Engine every 1 minute 34 seconds by itself, and levelling it shortens that — to 1 minute 3 seconds at level 2 and 40.3 seconds at level 3.

Upgrades cost 1,650 gold to level 2 and 7,450 gold to level 3. Every level also makes the troops it musters hit harder and last longer.

Before it can be raised at all it has to be unlocked in the Armory, for 1,400 gold — gold carried between battles, earned by fighting them.

Other Siege troops

Every other siege troop in the game, cheapest to raise first. See all Siege troops.

TroopKingdomRaiseHealthDamageRangeSpeed
Battering RamOrcs1,95021616Melee30
Charnel RamUndead2,00022315Melee32
Siege TowerHumans2,05024313Melee26
BallistaElves2,250623126032
Fire OxDynasty2,30023016Melee62
Gnome TinkerBeasts2,350892324552
Heartwood RamElves2,35025718Melee36
OnagerDwarves2,350642925030
Steam RamOverwound2,35018132Melee42
Air ShipOverwound2,4501812713540
Grav SledFallen2,45016726Melee52
MangonelHumans2,500592525030
Plague CartUndead2,5001021825034
CatapultOrcs2,550542927028
HwachaDynasty2,600611324528
Pressure MortarOverwound2,6001002923538
BombardDwarves2,650593226026
Bone EngineDamned2,7001513122536
EttinBeasts2,80029123Melee58
TrebuchetHumans3,050564034024

More Star-Fallen troops

The Star-Fallen page has all 26 of them side by side, with the kingdom's powers.