Egg Gunner

The Egg Gunner is an enemy in Sonic the Hedgehog (2006), it is also one of the game's most common enemy. It is a white robot, with a propulsion system that allows it to hover, it also has a machine gun mounted to the right arm, missile to the left. It has blue lights for eyes. It also has two other variants, the Egg Lancer, and the Egg Stinger.

Sonic The Hedgehog (2006)
The Egg Gunners make the first appearence in the sonic the hedgehog 2006 game, they first appear attacking Soleanna with their machine guns until sonic arrives and destroys them. They also appear in every single action stage after that (along with most of the cutscenes for Sonic's story). They are white robots with black metal, red eyes, they also have a machine gun on their right arms, rocket launcher on the left. They are most often on the ground, but sometimes use their hover ability.

Sega Superstars Tennis
They reappear again in Sega Superstars Tennis ,they have mainly a minor role in the game,and you only play against them very few times.They are seen alongside Metal Sonic in the game.

Armor
The Egg Gunners have relatively weak armor, their armor will be destroyed in just one direct hit, which destroys the robots to. The Gunners and stingers are the weakest of the humanoid robots in the 2006 game.

Egg Lancer
The Egg Lancer is a other version of the egg Gunner, it is blue, and has two laser cannons instead of machine guns or missiles. The lasers cannot go around sharp turns, but can arc around the player in wide open areas. The Egg lancers also have stronger armor, their armor takes two hits to destroy. These robots can be very hard to defeat if you ever get surrounded by them.

Egg stinger
The Egg Stingers are yet another variant of the egg gunner, they can be told by their missile launchers instead machine guns, or lasers, and their red paints instead of white or blue paint, they, like the normal gunners, have little armor, so one hit could easily destroy them. They, like the lancers can be very hard to defeat if you are surrounded by them.

Third Variant
During the kingdom valley stages, you may encounter Yellow robots that look like the gunner/Lancer/Stinger, but instead have two rockets on arch arm instead of one main weapon, then a machine gun. These variants are not mentioned in the prima strategy guides enemy pages, instead they are just called "Robots". These versions take Three hits to defeat. Like all eggman enemies in the game, the first part of their name would be Egg, and the second part is unknown, although it could be Launcher, or Rocket,but for now, their name is unknown.

Origins
It is unknown where the Gunners,lancers,and stingers were built,but it may be the Egg carrier,or another of Eggman's ships.It could also be the mystic ruins base or white acropolis,as the ruins base may likely be still standing,and the acropolis is eggman's base for the game they are in.They also MAY have been made in the Aquatic Base. Out of all the possible origins though,the egg carrier is more likely,because the gunners are seen falling out of the Egg Carrier in the intro cutscene.The gunners may have been made in the base they appear in during Sega Superstars Tennis,their origins may never be known.



Trivia

 * The strategy guide for Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) states that the gunners have TWO machine guns for arms,this is wrong because they have ONE machine gun and the other arm is a missle launcher.
 * The Egg Lancer is also the name of a boss in Sonic Unleashed
 * The Egg Stinger's weapon is very similar to the weapons of E-104 Epsilon.
 * The Gunners appear in two games,but all other versions only appear in Sonic The Hedgehog (2006)
 * The stinger's main name is the name of it's main weapon,which is STINGER,this weapon is used on E-104 Epsilon.