Cog

Cog
Associated God	Pyro
Level	1
Type of Creature	Lvl 1 Melee
Creature Classes	Ground, Melee
Number of Souls	1
Creature Statistics
Health	640
Mana	0
Damage	30-180 (160)
Attack Speed	1.4 s
Movement Speed	11 m/s
Resistances and Weaknesses
Melee
Direct Ranged	10%
Splash Ranged	10%
Direct Spell
Splash Spell
Creature Abilities
Pyro's Stats Steaming Death

"The lowliest of my slaves is the mindless Cog. Unfortunately, its heat energy is entirely used up in powering its deadly spinning bludgeons; so it is one of the few proles that does not burn its victims. That is, up until it is destroyed. You use them as fodder and then, whenever your enemies destroy one, it erupts in a searing steam blast, scalding anything near it." – The Manual, The Book of Pyro

Cog is Pyro's level 1 creature.

Creature Information

Summary

"Cogs are pretty good at bludgeoning people with those steam driven hammers of theirs. Stay clear when they burst though; that steam is pretty hot!" – Zyzyx, The Gods Themselves (Pyro)

The creature is obtained along with Flame Minion, Spitfire and Fireball and in campaign is received in Pyro's first mission. It shares its unit model with Scythe.

Name Etymology

Cogs are named after the teeth on the rim of a gearwheel, describing their nature of attack.

Species

Not much is known about Cogs, except for the mechanical, steam-driven construction of their bodies and the origin of their creation – Pyro's factories. While they are exclusively Proles, and as such Pyro's slaves, it is uncertain if actual slaves are used to power their internal mechanisms, although because of the size of cog's eyes this seems implausible. Since they have no specified home, they are presumed to be spread out all over Pyroborea.

Quotes

Selection Awaiting orders. Cog reporting! Master!

Movement Orders By your command! Executing orders! Command received. Affirmative.

Attack Orders Initiating attack. Attack order confirmed. Engaging hostiles.

Taunts

• All functions normal.
• Cog unit malfunctioning.
• Roger, roger.
• Does not compute.
• Cog unit malfunction corrected.

Abilities and Tactics

Special and Passive Abilities

Passive Abilities: Overheat-- Upon its death, it releases a Steam Explosion, causing area damage to all nearby creatures.

Strategies

The Cog might deal little damage with its attacks, but it deals quite some damage in a small radius when it dies. However, the Steam Explosion released upon a Cog's death does not discriminate between friend or foe, and so it is possible for a group of Cogs to chain-react from each other's death explosions if attacked with damaging area-of-effect spells, or if enough Cogs die in a small enough area. To prevent this, send your Cogs in a loose formation and try to not make them all gang up on a single target if that can be helped or if it is not necessary at the moment.

Creature-reviving spells and abilities (those being Charnel's Animate Dead spell or the Dragon's Breath of Life ability) are especially useful when used on Cogs, as they can be sent in to attack, deal their Steam Explosion damage on death, and then be revived to repeat the process over and over while racking up the damage dealt on enemies.

Gallery

Picture of two Cogs

Concept art of a Cog, possibly used later to create the Scythe

Rendered model of a Cog

Creatures in Sacrifice
Creatures	CC	1			2	3	4	5	6	7	9
Faithful	PE-c	PE-1m	PE-1r	PE-1f	PE-2	PE-3	PE-4	PE-5	PE-6	PE-7	PE-9
Yeomen	JA-c	JA-1m	JA-1r	JA-1f	JA-2	JA-3	JA-4	JA-5	JA-6	JA-7	JA-9
Servants	ST-c	ST-1m	ST-1r	ST-1f	ST-2	ST-3	ST-4	ST-5	ST-6	ST-7	ST-9
Proles	PY-c	PY-1m	PY-1r	PY-1f	PY-2	PY-3	PY-4	PY-5	PY-6	PY-7	PY-9
Minions	CH-c	CH-1m	CH-1r	CH-1f	CH-2	CH-3	CH-4	CH-5	CH-6	CH-7	CH-9