Fleet Enemies

Fleet Enemies

Three enemy types fall under the Fleet umbrella: Saboteur, Commander, and Overcharge, and you will only meet them on T14 or higher. A long list of your usual tools simply does not work on them — Orbs, Death Ray, shockwave, knockback, and both Black Hole damage and pull all fail to connect. Chrono Field, Chrono Loop (CF+), Thunder Bot, Poison Swamp stun, and Land Mine stun do function, but only at half strength. The Plasma Cannon card will not even select them as a target.

Fleets pass straight through other enemies instead of colliding with them. Where each type stops differs: Commander and Overcharge halt once they are inside your Tower Range, whereas the Saboteur keeps coming until it reaches the tower itself. Thorns are heavily blunted against them at 85% resistance, and whatever Thorn damage does land is calculated from their current health rather than their maximum.

Their attack rate scales with wave count. At Wave 1 they attack extremely slowly, and this ramps up until hitting its ceiling at Wave 4000.

Overview

Two quirks are worth knowing. The Saboteur counts as attacking for the purposes of Thorn effects, yet it never triggers Energy Shield and cannot damage The Wall. Overcharge, meanwhile, never scales its damage — it stays fixed at whatever Wave 1 dealt on that tier.

The table below summarises the per-type details.

Fleet Rewards

Killing a Fleet enemy pays out one of two currencies. Reroll shards are the common result at an 80% drop chance, with module shards making up the remaining 20%.

Exact amounts per enemy type are listed in the rewards table.

Fleet Enemy Spawns

Fleet spawns are guaranteed — if a wave is due to produce one, it will, and wave-skipping past that point still forces the Fleet enemy to appear. Each one arrives alongside a pack of matching escort enemies, with the group size looking like a random roll somewhere between 10 and 14. The moment it appears within its assigned wave is also randomised.

Since v28.3, these escort packs sit under their own separate cap. That means the whole group is guaranteed to spawn and can push the total enemy count above the normal limit.

Fleets at Higher Waves on All Tiers

Fleets are no longer exclusive to the top tiers — every tier gets them eventually if you push far enough. On Tier 1 they begin appearing at wave 15,000, and each tier above that moves the first appearance 250 waves sooner: 14,750 on T2, 14,500 on T3, and so on down the line. After their debut, they keep coming back every 100 waves.

Fleets in Battle Condition Tiers and Tournaments

Bonus spawns carry the pattern over from the high-wave Fleets of lower tiers. One caveat: if a regular Fleet is present at the same time, the bonus ones drop nothing.