Floor Blades

Floor Blades in use on The Last Bastion.

Floor Blades are a fortification employed by the Banished.

Overview

They take the form of razor-sharp spikes embedded in the ground intended to hurt and maim anything that tries to cross them, any unit willing to crossed will be slowed down and also will take slightly more damage upon fired on.

Gameplay

Halo Wars 2

Awakening the Nightmare

In the mission "Fighting Retreat" Pavium needed some other sources to defend himself and his army From the flood, so he uses available plots scattered around the area in order to be build on, Pavium can choose to either build a Shield Barrier to temporally hold off the flood or build some Floor Blades so the flood can take some damage when they come.

Terminus Firefight

In Terminus Firefight the Floor Blades can be built by any Banished leader, these buildings can help team to force the enemy to take forced slow movements and a lot of damage.

• Floor Blades
  • Population cost:
  • Supply cost: 200 (default)
  • Power cost: N/A
  • Cooldown: 10 seconds
  • Passives:
    • Atriox - 70%/40.6% lower cost via Fortifications (70% = 140 | 40.6% = 81)
    • Colony - Slightly improved armor via Vehicle Symbiotes & Slow Health Regan via Combat Repair
    • Arbiter - Temporary damage boost via Conduct of Rage
    • Pavium - Slow Health Regan via Full Salvage

Tips

• Floor Blade are very effective against group units (Marines and Grunt Squads) as every member of the group take separate damage.
• Whenever a large group of units are passing through the Spikes, make the siege/splash units to force target them or the toughest unit in the group in order to deal more damage on the units surrounding the tougher.
• Voridus' Infusion pools also deal a lot of damage also they are slightly slowed down.
• Upon late waves of Vultures or Scorpions, try to make them use their specials on the buildings as much as possible whenever they destroy one already built Floor Blades but it's recommended to not keep spamming the Floor Blades as the enemy A.I. can be granted a Veterancy.

Gallery

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  Concept art of various ideas of what the Floor Blades could be.

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  Concept art of various Banished fortification ideas.

List of appearances

• Halo Wars 2 (First appearance)