Cavalry

Cavalry

ARTICLE

ADVANCED STATS

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Cavalry
Mode Appearance	Western
Wave Debut	25
Statistics
Base Health	15,000
Defense	25%
Speed	Slightly Slow (2.25)
Cash Given	$4,375 every 25% health
Hidden?	No
Flying?	No
Ghost?	No
Lead?	No
Attributes	Stun Immune Freeze Immune Bloated (Variable)
Base Health	25,000
Speed	Slightly Slow (2)
Hidden?	No
Flying?	No
Ghost?	No
Lead?	No
Attributes	None
Ability
Ability	Gunfight - The Cavalry shoots a tower, stunning for a few seconds.

Description

The Cavalry is a large enemy that appears in Badlands II, later being the guardian enemy for the Gunslinger. The Cavalry spawns before the Gunslinger, on the left and right paths of the Badlands II map. It has very high health, low amount of defense and a slightly slow speed. It has one ability, where it shoots a tower, stunning it for a few seconds.

The Cavalry is, uniquely, completely unaffected by the All Paths modifier, a trait that in Badlands II it only shares with the Gunslinger. It will instead alternate between paths, similarly to how enemies spawn in multi-pathed maps without All Paths.

Appearance

The Cavalry is a giant humanoid with a waist and lower arms in its rig. It has a very desaturated green skin color. Its head is missing a patch of skin, revealing its skull. It wears a dark grey button up shirt with five yellow buttons, navy blue pants and very dark brown boots. It has a yellow and black belt with a gold buckle and a holster on its waist and a bandolier on its torso. It also has gold chevrons on its elbows and wears black gloves. It wears a beige cowboy hat and has a crimson shawl.

The Cavalry wields an 1860 Spencer lever action rifle to shoot towers and has a cartoonish walk as it holds it, having the rifle lean against its shoulder. It has a death animation, where it fall backwards, dropping its rifle in the process.

Strategy

• Multiple high DPS towers, such as the Accelerator, Engineer, Golden Minigunner or Turret are recommended.
  • The Commander can be useful at boosting the firerate of these towers.
  • You can use the Nuke consumable to instantly kill six Cavalries.
• Due to its immunities, stalling towers are far less effective against it.
  • It cannot be frozen or chilled, as it has the freeze immunity. This also indirectly prevents it from having its defense dropped from freezing and prevents the Sledger from dealing double damage to it.
  • As it has the Stun Immunity, it cannot be knocked back. Stuns will also only slow it down instead of stunning it.
• Because of their ability to stun towers, use of the Medic is recommended to cleanse the stuns.

Gallery

Promotional Images

Cavalry on a promotional image.

Trailers

Tower Defense Simulator- 🌵 BADLANDS Trailer! 🌵

Cavalry in the game trailer.

Miscellaneous

Cavalry on its Index icon.

Trivia

• The Cavalry appears to be based on US cavalrymen in the American Old West and 19th century.
• This enemy resembles more of a foot soldier rather than an actual cavalry unit due to the fact that they have no horses to mount on.
  • Uniquely, they also seem to march in sync with each other.
• The weapon of the Cavalry, as mentioned before, is the 1860 Spencer Lever Action Rifle, which was heavily adopted by the US Cavalry in the 19th century.

Version History

• 30 September 2022 - v1.3.0
  • Cavalry added
  • Bug: Cavalry's death animation sometimes breaks, causing it to stand up instead of laying down.
• 5 February 2025 - v1.52.0
  • Modern version added.
    • None of the changes were applied to its legacy version.
  • Health decreased from 25,000 to 15,000.
  • Speed increased from 2 to 2.25.
  • Defense of 25% added.
  • Now gives $4,375 every 25% health lost.
  • Stun Immunity added.
  • Freeze Immunity added.
  • Bug: Appears twice in the Index, one of them not loading in any model for the preview.

Western (Badlands II)
Previous Debut	Current Debut	Next Debut
Tanker Wave 24	Cavalry Wave 25	Conjurer Wave 27