Lucifer

Lucifer
Cost
Gold	600
Build Time	36 Seconds
Food	2
Workers	1
Oil	10
Maintenance Gold	12
Maintenance Oil	1
Stats
HP	500
MS	1.8
AR	3.5
AS	2
AD	24
WR	6
Armor	3
Noise	10
Attack Type	flamethrower

Ingame Description

"Nobody knows if Lucifer is a machine, a human or a ghost from hell. The fire of Lucifer can kill whole hordes of infected. It can not attack through walls but is immune to fire."

General Information

Lucifers are very short ranged and slow infantry units armed with flamethrowers. This allows them to deal sustained damage in a small cone shaped area in front of them allowing them to deal with large numbers of infected with small health pools simultaneously.

The Lucifer is one of three specialised units requiring Oil that can only be recruited from an Engineering center. The other two being the Thanatos and the Titan. It is also the only unit of the three that can be recruited without any additional research making it more easily accessible.

Another notable bonus of Lucifers is that they regenerate their health at the rate of 40 HP/sec, making them usable faster again, after taking heavy damage.

Unfortunately Lucifers suffer from a number of disadvantages that make them one of the lesser used units on higher difficulties:

• They are the only unit in the game that is unable to fire over walls making them a very poor unit for defending fortifications.
• They have extremely poor range and speed making them vulnerable to Venoms and Harpies, unmassed they also lack the burst to quickly kill Chubbies thus making them vulnerable to almost all the specialised zombie units. (As of Version 0.8, Lucifers take 65% less damage from Venoms, but are still outranged by them.)
• Their Flamethrower attack can damage your own units, making them hard to mix with other types of units, since they might roast your own units if they get flanked or aren't controlled properly.
• Finally they have the same cost and upkeep as the Thanatos unit. But they have the same function to attack several enemies at the same time, but the way they work is very different: Lucifer can withstand many blows and his attacks are at close range, while Thanatos needs to be far away to be able to use his bazooka and he can do it at great distances.

Tips & Strategy

• Their ability to deal with large numbers of infected with small health pools simultaneously makes them most effective at clearing out Villages of Doom and holding unfortified areas against encroaching swarms.
• They are a specialised unit against masses of low HP infected, thus Snipers help them massively with killing special zombies, where they fall short.
• Lucifer works very well with the soldiers, since they have a resistance against fire (50%) that allows them to alleviate friendly fire.

Trivia

• The clothing and specially the mask of "Lucifer" resembles the "Alpha Series" big daddy from Bioshock series.

Quotes

When trained:

• "It is I - Lucifer!"

When selected:

• "Can you feel the heat?"
• "I need to purify their souls!"
• "Ashes to ashes!"
• "Just tell me what to burn!"
• "Let's purify the world!"
• "The Inferno calls to me!"
• "I'm on fire!"
• "My blood boils!"
• "From the night to the darkness!"
• "Hellfire upon this world!"
• "I'm cold! Let's turn up the heat!"
• "I have come from the darkness!"
• "I am soulless instrument of death!"

When moving:

• "Great!"
• "Like a ghost!"
• "Like a vanishing soul!"
• "Done!"
• "Yeah!"
• "Yes!"
• "On my way to Hell!"
• "Into the darkness!"

When attacking:

• "I shall purify their souls!"
• "I know your darkest thoughts!"
• "Okay!"
• "Understood!"
• "They all shall be ashes!"
• "With all my fire!"
• "As silent as smoke!"
• "Affirmative!"
• "Feel the heat!"
• "So beautiful when they burn!"
• "I will send them to Hell!"