Steel Back Roach

The Steel Back Roach is a Savage Swarm unit of the Destroyers agenda. The Steel Back Roach was released in Series #4: Now!.

Strategy & Tactics

 * The Roach gains the benefits of Force Field and Shelter at all times itself (even if Jammed from granting them to others). This makes it Defense 3 against Blast and Brawl attacks.  Note that it is still Defense 2 against power attacks or secondary damage from triggers (Explosion, Fling, etc.)
 * Pathfinder is most useful when granted to a monster by moving the Roach adjacent to it. This enables any Destroyer monster to potentially break a screen and move to alignment for a power attack.  This is best on a monster with no other Action.
 * Pathfinder also gives the ability to dislodge an enemy unit from an objective space and bypass Reactions such as Incubator or Unstable by crushing the unit. However, since Pathfinder only works half the time, there are usually preferable Actions during the unit turn.

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