Prismata puzzle solution: Guardian Rube

Mission description

After rescuing her mother from a swarm of hostile robots, Anya declines an invitation to accompany her to the outskirts of Mahar.

Instead, Anya heads into town to search for her missing colleague, the only other operative assigned to shut down the town's Gaussite mining operation.

icon: Bloodrager

Starting state

player: 8 Drones, 2 Engineers

enemy (Rube PX15-11618): 9 Drones, 2 Engineers, 1 Energy Matrix

set: Engineer, Drone, Animus, Husk, Tarsier, Grimbotch, Rhino, Tyranno Smorcus, Corpus, Bloodrager

enemy set: Engineer, Drone, Conduit, Blastforge, Barrier, Plexo Cell, Gauss Cannon, Wall, Steelsplitter, Energy Matrix

music: Desolate Frontier Battle

Solution

r = hold Rhino, g = hold Grimbotch, c = click Corpus

always absorb on Corpus with stamina left

1. DDE (Rube: DD)

2. DDD (Rube: DDCC)

3. DDD (Rube: DDG)

4. DDDAA (Rube: GDDC)

5. R222E (Rube: GDDB)

6. 5222r (Rube: WGDD)

7. 551Erg (Rube: WGGD)

8. 4R1EE (Rube: 221GBEE) (it's really strange, if you buy 3rd E this turn Rube goes 221SGG, which makes it much harder but still winnable)

9. 555r (Rube: 2211SSDD)

10. 55Ecr (Rube: 22WSDD)

11. 4REcd (Rube: 21WWBdd)

12. 42EEc (Rube: 2WWW)

13. 4EEccg (Rube: 322S)

14. 22Ecc (Rube: 311W)

15. RRRc, kill 4 Drones (Rube: W1111)

16. kill 1 Steelsplitter and 9 Drones, RRR1 (Rube: 1)

easy to win from here.

Because the turn 8 I see from Rube with this line is so strangely bad, I'm going to show the other version of this solution, just in case it helps anyone for whom Rube doesn't play so badly this turn.

8. 4R1EEE (Rube: 221SGG)

9. 55cr (Rube: 2211SBEE)

10. 555r (Rube: 21WWDD)

11. 4REcdd (Rube: 21WWDd)

12. 4REc (Rube: 21WWEEdd)

13. 4Eccd (Rube: 2WWG)

14. R1cc (Rube: 321ddd)

15. RR1cr (Rube: 321ddd)

16. RRRddr (Rube: 3111)

17. kill Steelsplitter, 1111dddddr (Rube: 3)

18. kill Steelsplitter and Drones, 11ddddddr (Rube: B)

19. kill 1 Drone and 3 Gauss Cannons, dddr

20. kill 1 Drone and 3 Gauss Cannons

Victory message

Tyranno Smorcus was our first community-designed unit, created by Daniel 'weiseguy' Weiser, winner of the Prismata Alpha World Championship.