Wolf

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"Drill Sergeant Volkov"
The Wolf Sergeant's howl causes all nearby friendly units to fight with x3 attack strength.
Details
1.4.0.1 Unverified
Animal	Wolf
Tier	Tier 3 unit
Defense	50 HP
Attack DPS	0
Attack Cooldown	2 sec
Range	4 tile(s)
Warren Cost	180 Food
Unit Cost	180 Food
Build Time	40 sec
Supply	1 Unit(s) per Warren
Trait(s)	Stim
Strategy	Great to use at bigger army of small units, great for boosting building speed.

Description

If you have a lot of anything, Wolf can be a great way to ensure you'll win a fight. Alone, wolves aren't anything but glorified squirrels but in a group gives an additional buff to all units nearby it, so the more units you have the more that benefit from its buff. Word of caution, if you feel that your army is weaker than the enemy's if you took away the wolf, retreat after the buff expires to prevent the opponent turning on you. Re-engage once the buff is off cooldown.

Counters

By themselves, wolves are just glorified squirrels, but in a group of other units, they provide a massive dps buff for 5 seconds. So in this case, timing is more of a counter to wolves than the actual units.

Tier 1 Options

• Toad: Chances are, if there's a wolf, squirrels and lizards are close by. Wolf makes them hit for more but a few toads is still all it takes.

Tier 2 Options

• Chameleon: Assassinations of high ranking officials happen all the time, if you can get him during his cooldowns, you don't have to worry about backing off anymore.

Tier 3 Options

• Owl: If you can get a mice to aggro the wolf, you can get it to waste the buff on a free unit. Use the next 10 seconds to fight. If the fight isn't over, make sure to back out before it buffs his friends again.

• Boar: If the wolf has a lot of tier 1 friends, turn them into dinner.

Structural Options

• Artillery Cannon: Player who use wolf generally has a large number of something. So as long as that "something" isn't falcons, artillery cannons can help to cull the group quite a bit.

Changelog

• Pre-Alpha 19:
  • Damage buff now 3 (was 5)
• Pre-Alpha 15:
  • Hitpoints now 60 (was 50)
• Pre-Alpha 14:
  • Hitpoints now 70 (was 60)
• Pre-Alpha 12:
  • Damage buff now 5 (was 4)
• Pre-Alpha 11:
  • This patch changed the “damage per 5 seconds” system to a “damage per second” system.Therefore, damage values have to be divided by 5 before they are comparable.
  • Damage buff cooldown now 10 seconds (was 15s)
  • Buff will not be triggered on enemy commander anymore
• Pre-Alpha 9:
  • Damage buff now lasts 4 seconds (was 5s)
  • Damage buff cooldown now 19 seconds (was 9s)
  • Damage buff now 20 (was 10)
• Pre-Alpha 6:
  • Damage now 10 (was 20)
• Pre-Alpha 4:
  • Hitpoints now 60 (was 50)