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11 The Corsair Raider is the Free Corsairs group in miniature: a Tier 1 infantry unit hired three at a time that jumps up and down cliffs and steals hexite from an enemy base without the owner losing any. The Free Corsairs are a mercenary group hired into a main faction army rather than played on their own, and the Raider is the clearest expression of what hiring them buys, which is economic pressure rather than a better line of battle.
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33 Figures below describe the September 2026 Early Access build, the one carrying the identifier ZS.c36778, and they move with the weekly patch cadence. This unit had its damage bonus rewritten in August and its range changed on September 1, so read the numbers as dated.
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55 Stat Block
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77 StatValueCost175 hexite and no flux for a batch of three, which is 58.33 hexite eachHealth150Shields0Armor0Armor typeLightStatus resistNone listedMove speed650Vision16Supply2 per RaiderBuild timeNone. Mercenary units are hired at an outpost rather than constructed, so the game publishes no build time for them.Tier1DomainGround unitInfuse cost2.9165Reanimate cost2.9165Replicate cost2.9165Built byThe Free Corsair Mercenary Outpost
88 Weapons
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1010 WeaponDamageDPSRangeCooldownTargetsBonusesS-2 Marksman12891.5sGround and air+50% against Medium armour, which takes 12 damage to 18. This replaced an older bonus against the deleted harvester armour type on August 11, 2026, and still covers harvesters and extractors because those were folded into Medium in the same pass.
1111 Abilities
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1313 AbilityEffectCooldownCostThieveTargets an enemy main building or harvester at close range and, after a 5 second delay, steals 50 hexite. The wording matters: the owner does not lose the resources, so the theft is pure income for the Corsair player rather than a transfer.60sNo energy cost
1414 Conversion Costs
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1616 At 2.9165 power for Infuse, Reanimate or Replicate alike, the Raider is the cheapest conversion the Free Corsairs offer, paid from the top bar pool described on Resources and Economy. Whether it is worth spending is a judgement about what the unit is doing: a Raider used to harass does not want to fight anything, so extra health rarely changes the outcome. A Raider used as a cheap Medium armour answer in a real engagement benefits more.
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1818 Role
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2020 Raiders do two jobs, and neither is standing in a fight. Cliff jumping means they ignore the terrain that shapes every other ground approach, so three of them can arrive in a mineral line from a direction that has no defences pointed at it. Thieve then converts that access into income at 50 hexite per use on a 60 second cooldown, and because the owner loses nothing, it is income the opponent cannot see on their own resource counter.
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2222 Their second job is anti Medium. The +50% bonus takes 12 damage to 18, and since August 11, 2026 Medium armour covers every harvester and extractor in the game, so the same three Raiders that steal from a base also shoot it efficiently. The weapon hits air as well, which at 8 damage a second is not a serious answer to a flier but is enough to chase off a scout.
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2424 One hundred and fifty health with Light armour is not enough to survive a response. Raiders are a harassment package: they arrive, take what is there, and leave before the defender has organised. A Raider squad that has been caught in a real engagement has usually already failed at its job.
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2626 Faction Context
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2828 Raiders come out of the Free Corsair Mercenary Outpost. They pair naturally with the group's level 2 talent, Pillage, which pays hexite for destroying harvesters and buildings, because a Raider squad is already in the place where harvesters die. Plundered Optics at level 4 adds 75 percent vision and 15 percent move speed, which on a unit whose entire value is arriving somewhere unseen is the strongest talent in the group.
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3030 The faction power, Sandbags, drops cover rather than damage for half a point of power on a 20 second cooldown, and the group's leader Caylan Yearl shares the Raider's style: cliff walking, cloaking and leaving explosives behind. He is covered on Heroes and Commanders.
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3232 Tier and Armour Interactions
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3434 The Raider carries Light armour with an armour value of 0, so nothing is subtracted from incoming hits and every anti Light bonus applies at full value against a 150 health body. Its own bonus keys off Medium armour, one of the six types in this build alongside Light, Heavy, Building, Hero and None.
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3636 That bonus has a history worth knowing. Until August 11, 2026 it read +75% against the harvester armour type. That pass deleted the harvester type outright, moved harvesters and extractors onto Medium, and rewrote six units' bonuses accordingly, the Raider among them. The current figure of +50% against Medium is confirmed in the September 2026 build data. Any material that still lists a harvester armour bonus on this unit predates that change and describes an armour type that no longer exists.
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3838 Counters
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4040 Strong againstWhyHarvesters and extractorsMedium armour since August 11, 2026, so the +50% bonus applies, and Thieve works on them directly.Corsair Hovercraft, Endari Wyrm and other Medium armourThe same bonus applies to any Medium armour unit, in the air as well as on the ground.Terrain based defenceCliff jumping means the usual approach lanes do not constrain a Raider squad.
4141 Weak toWhyCorsair Deadeye+100% against Light armour at range 20, against 150 health with no armour value.Corsair Flamer+50% against Light in a 40 degree arc at 64 damage a second clears a whole squad.Any real engagementEight damage a second at 2 supply each. Raiders lose every fight they are meant to be avoiding.A defended mineral lineThieve has a 5 second delay, which is a long time to stand next to something the opponent is watching.
4242 Balance History
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4444 DateChangeSeptember 1, 2026Weapon range increased from 8 to 9.August 28, 2026Updated textures, alongside the Corsair Hovercraft and the Grell Boomers. No stat effect.August 11, 2026Damage bonus changed from +75% against the harvester armour type to +50% against Medium armour, when the harvester type was deleted and folded into Medium.July 25, 2026Thieve removed in the campaign only, leaving it intact in versus and skirmish play.
4545 Notes
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4747 Thieve is one of several places where the studio tunes a unit differently by mode. It was removed from the campaign on July 25, 2026 and left untouched in versus and skirmish, so a Raider in the campaign is a different unit from the one described above.
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4949 The +50% against Medium figure was verified against the September 2026 build data rather than carried forward from the August 11 patch note alone, because several August figures in this game were superseded later in the month. In this case the value held.
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5151 The roster record for this unit is complete. For the rest of the group see Free Corsairs. For how armour types, tiers and supply work across the game see Units.