Scuttlebugs

Attack

Scuttlebugs attack by scuttling up to you soldiers and using their pincers as a melee weapon.

Range: 1 metre
Damage: 50
Damage type: soft

Defence

Soft: 20%
Universal: 30%
Hard: 40%
Burn: 0%
Laser: 0%
Plasma: 0%
Warp: 50%
Paralyse: 0%

Health: 500 hit points

Distribution

Scuttlebugs are spawned by the Biomass, and they are only ever found in territory that is controlled by the Biomass.

Tactical notes

Scuttlebugs are small crab like creatures that operate in tightly knit groups of three. These groups are so tightly knit that the game regards each group as being one specific transgenant.

The one tactic that scuttlebugs have is to rush your squad and attack them with their pincers. As scuttlebugs are small, it is difficult to see them until they are quite close to your squad. Fortunately, they cannot do much damage to your squad and most weapons are highly effective against them.

It is possible to take scuttlebugs alive, and they are small enough to be carried. A group of scuttlebugs will fall unconscious when their health is reduced to 100 hit points or below, 20% of the original.