Mechworm

The Mechworm is the boss encountered in the Badlands or Antagonistan, Mission 8 and 17 in Heavy Weapon.

Appearance
It's a giant metal worm equipped with bomb shooters and missile launchers on its body. Its head has a skull-like appearance, and has drills attached to it to burrow in and out of the ground, along with a pincer-like mouth.

Taking advantage of the desert, it continually emerges from the ground and then burrows its way underground, in order to both attack you and evade your attacks.

In both the first and second encounter, its attacks are:
 * Emerging attack


 * Armored bombs


 * Homing missiles


 * Boulder bash

1st Encounter
﻿In the first encounter, it'll emerge from the ground (which causes the boulders to fly upwards and spread all over the screen) and drop armored bombs along the way. If you destroy the armored bomb shooters, it'll use homing missiles. Make sure it neither lands on you nor emerges on you. Always look on the ground. If you see the sand rustling, that's where the Mechworm will appear. A not-so-easy boss.

2nd Encounter
In the second encounter, it'll emerge and burrow faster than the first one, which makes the battle with it even harder.﻿

Strategy
Destroy all its armored bomb turrets. This will make the boss always emerge below the Atomic Tank making it easier to predict where it emerges.