Prop Popper

The Prop Popper is a hovering propeller-bomb — a fragile floating mine that holds a fixed patch of air with no Port slot required. It stays aloft permanently and pops on the first enemy to enter its range, air or ground. Prop Poppers are an advanced pattern and require a Printworks.

The Prop Popper flies on its own without occupying a Port aircraft slot, and you can reposition it at will to re-mine a new approach.

Strategy

Prop Poppers are area denial in the sky. Seed them across the lanes enemy Planes and Pelicans use, over choke points, or above your resource lines, and let them auto-detonate on whatever flies or walks in. At 30 health they are glass — any ranged fire pops them first — so treat each as a one-shot trap rather than a fighter, and mass a few across an approach so an incoming transport eats more than one blast. Because you can move them, pull them to cover a new threat axis as the game shifts.