Barrelroller

The Barrelroller is a Napoleon era troop in Totally Accurate Battle Simulator.

It is a low health, medium speed unit that blows up, dealing mediocre damage and leaving a patch of fire on the ground for about 10 seconds. Fire deals more damage the longer a unit stands on it capable of killing hordes of low HP units running through it.

Appearance
The barrelroller is a normal peasant rolling on a barrel

Strategy
A good way to use the barrelroller is to kite hordes of troops with a peasant or two accompanying the barrelroller, which then explodes, killing or severely damaging the horde. NEVER use melee units in combination with the barrel roller, because they will run into the fire and die too, as there is friendly fire in TABS. Also, NEVER send a barrelroller to attack ranged units – they will blow his barrel up before he even gets close to them.

Trivia

 * Sometimes the peasant might leave the barrel at which point he will act just like a peasant would.
 * The fire from the barrel actually burns up any unit that goes into it making it even more useful
 * The fire makes a dark visual effect when the camera is close to it.