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Pressure Guard

A pry-bar on a pressure line. It opens plate the way it opens a seized hatch.

Line infantry · all-round melee

Stats

Health: 108
Damage: 26per hit
Damage per second: 24.8
Attacks every: 1.05s
Range: Meleereach 43
Move speed: 58
Sight: 205how far it spots a foe
Population: 2of the army cap
Raise: 750gold, in battle
Armory: Starteryours from the first match

These are the Pressure Guard's own figures, the ones the Armory prints. In battle the Steampunk Hold's trait is added on top: +18% health · +12% damage · −6% speed. Range, reach and speed are in the battlefield's own units.

Special powers

Armour. Takes 22% less damage from every blow that does not ignore armour.
Brace. Deals ×1.45 damage to cavalry, beasts and other big targets.
Knockback. Its blows shove the target back.

Strong and weak

Strong: Armour, constructs, big things.

Weak: Massed light infantry.

As an anti-armor troop, it deals extra damage to Construct (×1.4) troops.

Ranged (×1.2) troops deal extra damage to it.

Raising it

The Pressure Guard comes out of its own spawner, which your Builder raises for 750 gold in the middle of a battle. Once it stands it musters a Pressure Guard every 27.5 seconds by itself, and levelling it shortens that — to 17.6 seconds at level 2 and 11.3 seconds at level 3.

Upgrades cost 500 gold to level 2 and 2,400 gold to level 3. Every level also makes the troops it musters hit harder and last longer.

It is one of the five troops the Steampunk Hold roster opens with, so it is yours from the first match — no unlocking.

Other Anti-Armor troops

Every other anti-armor troop in the game, cheapest to raise first. See all Anti-Armor troops.

Troop	Kingdom	Raise	Health	Damage	Range	Speed
Maceman	Orcs	650	78	19	Melee	58
Quillboar	Beasts	700	87	14	Melee	72
Halberd Lord	Elves	750	95	17	Melee	56
Halberdier	Humans	750	81	17	Melee	56
Sapper	Dwarves	750	60	16	Melee	62
Pikeman	Dwarves	950	86	17	Melee	54
Naginata Guard	Dynasty	1,000	96	20	Melee	58
Prybar	Fallen	1,000	116	35	Melee	66
Wrenchbreaker	Overwound	1,000	113	33	Melee	62
Yoke-Bearer	Damned	1,050	120	36	Melee	60
Barrow Wight	Undead	1,250	104	22	Melee	58
Shardbreaker	Damned	1,450	129	35	Melee	66
Hullbreaker	Fallen	1,500	135	38	Melee	62
Shieldbreaker	Dwarves	1,550	151	32	Melee	46
Tusk Breaker	Orcs	1,550	131	28	Melee	56
Iron Monk	Dynasty	1,800	139	28	Melee	76

More Steampunk Hold troops

The Steampunk Hold page has all 26 of them side by side, with the kingdom's powers.