Trooper

Trooper is a unit in Dark Colony.

Background
Trained at the Area-51 Military Academy, the generic human soldier deployed to the Martian front is equipped with an electromagnetic carbine pulse rifle that launches titanium shells at a speed roughly nine times the speed of sound. Their Titanium polymer composite combat armor comes with a backpack-mounted life support unit and a helmet assembly with three redundant breathing tubes, a polarized visor, and a thick helmet - emblazoned with three stars for Human commanders. Complementing this is combat webbing containing backup magazines and grenade rounds.

Gameplay
A lack of sufficient armor requires that they attack en masse, especially against any larger units or bases. However, when upgraded, they are a very potent support for any of the frontline attackers.


 * The first human buildable unit and the weakest. However the are able to attack air units making them good guards for exploiters against air early on.
 * Like all human faction units, troopers see better during the day than at night
 * Like the gray, troopers will die in 1 hit from a mine
 * Like gray infantry, troopers move slow. meaning faster units like heavies and sniper will be able to catch up to them
 * Their usefullness drops later on in the game in favor of snipers and artilery. However if resources are short they are still useful for support
 * Clumped up infantry are very vulnerable to artillery and mines.

Trivia
-The trooper has more death animations than the gray warrior

-The trooper has the most scenes in the dark colony cutscenes

-When a taar warrior fold is destroyed. A trooper can be found inside it. The reason behind it is that the taar have abducted humans in order to learn their weakness or to compete against them on the field of battle technologically

-The trooper is the only infantry unit that is seen on a taar torture rack. Once the rack is destroyed all the troopers death animations play at the same time