Swordwrath

The Swordwrath.

Swordwrath are a low health melee unit,  used in large numbers or as a basic early game unit for Order .   

       

Appearance

A Swordwrath lacks any facial features, hair, clothing, or armour. They are a basic black stick figure wielding a sword.

Stats

Health	2 Bars Unarmoured (18HP)
Damage (hp)	1.85 Medium (Normal attack) 1.85 High (With Rage, due to faster attack speed)
Attack Speed	0.7 a/s (without Rage)
DPS	1.295 (without Rage)
Speed (m/s)	2.08 Medium 2.91 High (With Rage)
Cost	125 Gold
Training Time	12 Seconds
Population	1

Note: The Stick Empires community previously had no numerical information on Damage or Speed, so these values were merely comparative. All numerical data is now derived from http://stickempires-rts.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:2437

A cluster of raged swords attacking a Chaos army.

Rage

Rage is a Swordwrath's only ability. Researching it costs 50 gold and 50 mana. It takes 60 seconds to research.

When activated, a Swordwrath will lose some of their health, glow red and have their movement speed and attack rate greatly increased, which is the equivalent to increased damage. The Swordwrath will also let out a war cry to audibly indicate its usage to both you and the enemy (if the screen is close enough). A Swordwrath cannot use Rage if it's health is too low. A group of Swordwrath using rage is ideal for chasing a retreating enemy. A large group of Swordwrath an easily raze through a group of units. Rage can also be used to retreat as well, using its speed boost to run away.

Swords are often used in tandem with archers for early game skirmishes.

Uses

Swordwrath can be used in early-game and in late-game. For early-game, Swordwraths are used to establish domination when Speartons or more advanced units cannot be accessed. With adequate protection and rage, Swordwrath can do large amounts of damage in an attack. A swordwrath does high damage especially in groups and is perfect for countering chaos early game.

Some other uses include using them as meat shields for weaker units like Archidons, however this mainly only applies Early-Game.

Trivia

• Swordwraths now have helmets they can equip in the Armory, but currently there are only 4 helmets.
• Swordwrath used to not have any helmets they could wear in the armory. The reason for this was because there are two standing animations for the Swordwrath and it was considered to take too much time to animate each helmet twice. However the animations were changed and helmets added.
• Swordwrath have been buffed in the past by reducing their cost from 150 gold to the current 125 gold.
• Rage has been nerfed in a previous patch to cost more health.
• Swordwrath have many different swords available in the Armoury, such as Katanas, Longswords, Claymores and Chainsaws. However, despite all these swords have different styles of use the Swordwrath will use the same attack animations and still do the same amount of damage.
• Rage openings has been less used ever since the Rage nerf and when the archer meta was more developed.
• In Stick War 1, Swordwraths used to wield different types of swords which had different damage.