Hovel

Basic Information
The Hovel is a buildable that is available to the Alien team at Stage 3.

Hovels are armoured shells that Grangers may hide in should the need arise. They may be entered and exited with Q (default). While there can only be one Hovel placed at a time, the hovel is free to place and can be rebuilt even during Sudden Death. Due to this Hovels make excellent barricades to inconvenience humans, further supported by their high hitpoints and high regeneration rate. Despite their spiky appearance, hovels cannot damage humans.

Hovel placement strategy
Hovels should be placed in area where they will block humans but not block aliens. Hanging them over ledges to block luci shots or luci jumps is a common strategy.

Hovel counter strategy
The best strategy to dealing with the hovel is to ignore or get around it. Shooting at the hovel or destroying it is in inadvisable as it can simply be rebuilt for free. In some cases however, you may have no choice or it may significantly block your ability to fire upon eggs or the overmind.

Game mode and QVM Variation differences
Tremulous 1.2 GPP
 * Hovel removed