THE FIELD NOTES · CRITTERFRONT
Nightveil on the march. Blaster at home. Get to know both sides of this creature.
Bomb belongs to Nightveil on attack and Blaster on defense. Buying one family gives you both combat forms.
Bomb's defending explosion happens after five seconds and removes it for the rest of combat. Choose a hex enemies can reach around that timing. Its attacking explosion instead triggers on final death and hits towers exactly one hex away.
Plan a team with Bomb ↗ON DEFENSE · Blaster
Has no normal attack. After 5s, deals 800% attack damage and stuns for 2/3/4/5s enemy marchers on its own and all adjacent hexes; Bomb is then removed for the rest of combat. A multi-target explosion can trigger Blaster Aftershock.
ON ATTACK · Nightveil
Has no normal attack. On final death, deals 400% attack damage and stuns for 2/3/4/5s every enemy tower exactly one hex away.
| Stat | Defending tower | Attacking marcher |
|---|---|---|
| Health | 100 | 110 |
| Attack damage | 10 | 9 |
| Basic attacks / second | 1 | 1 |
| Range (hexes) | 2 | 1 |
| Minimum range (hexes) | 0 | — |
| Splash radius (hexes) | 1 | 1 |
| Armor | 5 | 5 |
| Magic resistance | 5 | 5 |
| Movement speed (hexes / second) | Anchored | 0.5 |
| Nexus damage | — | 1 |
| Body | Ground tower | Ground |
| Normal attack | No; ability-only timed explosion | No; ability only |
Catalog attack values can remain nonzero when an ability disables normal attacks. Attack × APS is not a damage forecast. Ability effects, stars, synergies, resistances, and round modifiers change combat outcomes.
2 families: marchers are Veiled against distant direct targeting until Revealed. 4 families: additionally disable one nearby random enemy turret for 2s every 6s. 5 families: reduce that shared cooldown to 2s.
2 families: multi-target tower hits leave a telegraphed 40%-damage Blast Aftershock. 4 families: Aftershock damage increases to 80%. 5 families: it deals 100% damage and has no cooldown.
Other Blaster families: Mushroom, Cactus, Birdie, Soul Mage.
These are shared-synergy options, not a tested win-rate ranking. Only distinct deployed families count; bench units and summons do not add members.
Two matching copies at the same star merge into the next star. Stars I, II, III, and IV represent 1, 2, 4, and 8 copies. Health scales by 1×, 1.7×, 2.8×, and 4.5×; attack scales by 1×, 1.6×, 2.5×, and 4×. Nexus damage increases by one at each star after I. Each ability uses its own values listed above.
Generic star scaling does not increase armor, magic resistance, range, or basic attack speed. Learn the recruiting and merging loop or read about tower and marcher positioning.
