Buzzers

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Buzzers
Unit
Affiliation	Scrin
Role	Anti-infantry units
Armament	Razor-sharp blades
Protection	Light
Production
Cost	200
Build time	2 seconds
Produced by	Portal

“

Those buzzers - they're somehow attached to that walker! - GDI Trooper, examining the Buzzer-augmented Annihilator

”

The terrifying 'Buzzers' constitute the Scrin's basic anti-infantry units. Buzzers are created in small swarms, with experiments from captured Scrin hardware demonstrating that they may be created quickly and cheaply. Swarms remain together and are guided by what seems to be a limited sentience. Each individual Buzzer is like a floating, high-powered buzzsaw capable of tearing through flesh and light infantry armor plating. Multiple swarms are able to horrifically rip through infantry units, and Buzzers are also able to clear garrisoned buildings. In addition, the Scrin are known to "combine" their terrestrial vehicles with Buzzer swarms, so that the Buzzers travel with the vehicle and are able to move off and attack enemy infantry when necessary.

The Buzzer Hive, a Scrin base defense, is able to send swarms of Buzzers at attacking infantry. Buzzers have even been known to appear almost out of nowhere, right in the middle of the battlefield. Buzzers have also consistently been observed emerging out of destroyed Scrin buildings, leaving some researchers to conclude that they may operate the buildings.

While they are highly threatening Buzzers are, of course, quite lightly armored and particularly vulnerable to explosives and railguns. They are also completely useless against any form of vehicle, as their 'blades' are not capable of penetrating vehicle plating; however, their very nature means that they cannot be simply run down.

Regardless, they will devastate even the best of the best infantry squads-notably GDI's Zone Troopers and Nod's Shadow Teams.

It is also the only infantry unit (asides from the Mutant Marauder and GDI/Nod Commandos) that cannot "garrison" itself to an Epic Unit.

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