Flapper

Attack

This species has no offensive capability.

Defence

Soft: 0%
Universal: 15%
Hard: 30%
Burn: 10%
Laser: 10%
Plasma: 10%
Warp: 50%
Paralyse: 50%

Health: 500 hit points

Distribution

Flappers can be found in any land that has not been swallowed up by the Biomass, and they can be encountered from the earliest stages of the game. They are small enough to be encountered in the second stage of an establish base mission.

Tactical notes

This is the only transgenant with no offensive capability whatsoever, and it is therefore the weakest enemy in the game. It is also the only transgenant that will always try to retreat from your soldiers. You sometimes have to spend a long time hunting down a lone flapper that has retreated to the other side of the map in order to kill enough transgenants to win a mission.

As flappers have poor armour and no weapons, it simply does not matter what weapons you use against them.

A flapper can be captured alive, and it is small enough to be carried. A flapper will become unconscious when its health is reduced to 300 hit points or below, 60% of the starting total.