Burster

The Flood Burster is a carrier type flood form encountered on the Ark in 2559.

Description
The Flood Burster is a variant of the flood carrier form that is encountered in the Halo Wars 2 DLC, Awakening the Nightmare. It can only be seen by the player when it emerges from underground within Blightlands to pop and release Flood Infection Forms. It acts by lurking underground until the Blightlands above are disturbed by other life travelling across it. Once the burster has found a location on the surface that has been disturbed, it will rise up from the groud and erupt, releasing infection forms and Flood Spores.

Tactics
It is very difficult to avoid encountering bursters all together in the Awakening the Nightmare Campaign, since they will rise up and erupt in most places that the player stations their units. They also erupt very quickly, not giving the player much chance to move their units out of the way. The best way a player can help their army is to have some anti-infantry units, such as Elite Rangers , alongside the rest of their forces to help quickly eliminate any flood that are deposited by the bursters.