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Arc Spear as it appears in the Dust Front RTS demo, from the game files of build 23882143

Arc Spear

Confirmed Established — fromgame files build 23882143, raw prefabs joined through mainPrefab; rechecked 2026-09-06 with scripts/composants-d-une-entite.py

Cost

Minerals
600
Population
50
Build time
50 s

What it is

Arc Spear has the official description “The heavy artillery of the Robotic Escalation. Very powerful against all targets and has a mobile base.” Its price is 600 minerals and 50 supply in demo build 23882143, and the heavy-unit flag is recorded. The description supplies an artillery role and a mobile base, but no linked combat prefab supplies range, protection or attack damage for this entry. Effectiveness against targets remains the developer’s description rather than a measured result. Compare the intended role with Ballista, whose description stresses close-range artillery and low mobility, without treating their prices as a power ranking.

Where it comes from

The official role statement is “The heavy artillery of the Robotic Escalation. Very powerful against all targets and has a mobile base.” Build 23882143 records a supply price of 50 alongside that description. Robotic Escalation is the description’s label, without a demonstrated equivalence to the separate Travelers faction record. A mobile base describes an intention, not a measured deployment or movement system. With no linked combat prefab, this entry cannot supply a history of changes to artillery range. Read the Ballista and Heavy liner descriptions for their separately described intended roles.

How it is actually used

The phrase “Very powerful against all targets” is a role claim that requires weapon evidence before becoming advice about target choice. The Empire Dreadnought costs 700 minerals and MCV 1 000; those prices describe other commitments, not equivalent jobs or output. Arc Spear’s mobile-base wording does not establish firing while moving, immediate deployment or unrestricted artillery guidance. Before planning support around it, compare the documented attack modes of other artillery and keep the Spear’s own range and firing cycle unresolved.

How to beat it

The official in-game description states “Very powerful against all targets”; taking that wording as proof that armour or a target category cannot answer this artillery is a mistake. The earlier review dated 31 August 2026 examined the archive, not a measured fight. No linked weapon or protection establishes an engagement distance or a counter damage rate for Arc Spear. Its mobile-base description also cannot guarantee either escape or firing on the move. Read the artillery and vehicle comparisons to identify testable questions, rather than promising a counter or invulnerability from missing combat data.

Values read from game files · version 23882143

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