Units
Units include troops (air or ground) and buildings (base or center).
Units are critical in Duper: Troops help players acquire tiles and progress toward a Tile Count End; centers unlock powerful abilities when completed; base provides critical coin yield and defense power for staying alive.
To produce a unit, click on a tile and the Production Panel will show up to the right of the map. Click on the unit type you wish to produce, multiple times if you wish to produce multiple, and the units will be produced on the tile. The units will be ready to move or attack immediately.
A few general rules regarding units:
- Each tile can only have 1 class of air troop and 1 class of ground troop at once, but there is no limit on how many troops there are.
- Each tile can only have 1 building. There cannot be multiple buildings on the same tile.
- Troops can move and initiate attacks. Troops may only attack an adjacent tile.
- Buildings can neither move nor initiate attacks, but they have defense power and may also die if defense fails.
There are occasional exceptions to the above as we shall see below.
Unit Table
Below is a list of all unit classes in Duper:
| Unit Class | Production Cost | Spawn Location | Layer | Movement | Power | Death Priority | Class Exceptions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soldier | 1 coin | anywhere | ground | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Larva/Worm | - (NPC) | - (NPC) | ground | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Tank | 1 coin and 1 pair | base lv1-3 | ground | 5 | 3 | 2, or 5 if supporting | can support |
| Plane | 3 coins, 1 3-card flush or 3-of-a-kind, 1 completed plane center or blueprint | base lv1-3 | air | 7 | 4 | 3 | can perform long-distance moves and attack; can load |
| Fort | 3 coins, 1 3-card flush or 3-of-a-kind, 1 completed fort center or blueprint | anywhere | building | 0 | 7 | 1 if no troops on tile, otherwise same as the highest death priority troops on tile but only dies if all troops on tile die | can initiate attacks; can support if tanks inside |
| (Research) Center | 1 3-card straight or 3-of-a-kind | anywhere | building | 0 | 0 | - (doesn't die) | |
| Base lv1 | - | - | building | 0 | 6 | 6 | |
| Base lv2 | 9 coins | base lv1 | building | 0 | 10 | 6 | replaces base lv1; deals 1 card |
| Base lv3 | 12 coins | base lv2 | building | 0 | 15 | 6 | replaces base lv2; deals 2 cards |
| Base lv4 (Superbase) | none | base lv3 | ground | 5 | 18 | 4 | replaces base lv3 |
- Movement is the number of tiles a unit can move per round by L1 distance, i.e. x-distance plus y-distance.
- The lower a class’s death priority is, the earlier the class dies in a battle.
Class Exceptions
- Tanks can support: The power of tanks on a tile may be included in battles (both attacks and defenses) involving adjacent tiles owned by the same player, given that there are units (troops or building) on those tiles. Empty tiles without units are not supported by tanks.
- Planes can perform long-distance moves and attacks: A player may use planes to move onto a disconnected owned tile or to attack a non-bordering enemy tile, provided that the planes have enough movement to reach destination.
- Planes can load: A stack of two or more planes can load up all ground troops on a tile for any period of time. Loaded troops are not taken into account for movement and battle power calculations.
- Loading troops is only recommended for transporting troops, because if the planes die in a battle, the loaded troops will also die.
- Forts can initiate attacks: Unlike other buildings, a fort may be used to initiate attacks, but does not move onto the target tile if the attack succeeds. If the attack succeeds, 7 damage is taken by the fort before deducting troops in/on the fort. Only if the attack fails does the fort die.
- Forts can support with tanks inside: If there are tanks stationed inside a fort, the fort's power is added to the tanks' power in battles involving adjacent tiles owned by the same player.
- Level-2 to level-4 bases aren’t produced per se. They are upgraded from the previous level, usually for the extra coin yield and defense power.
- A special case is the upgrade from level-3 to level-4: The base transforms from a building to a ground troop and thereby gains the ability to move and initiate attacks. However, the player also permanently loses the high base coin yield as well as the ability to produce tanks and planes.