Cyclops AOE needs a buff.

The Cyclops has an AOE of 16 elmo, which is smaller than my mouse when I zoom out. I understand that it is a tank buster, meaning it is mostly for heavies, but I think that such a costly unit should be even a little bit better at anti-swarm, like having 32 elmo AOE.

eh its prolly fine, its the reason it cant chew up raiders easily,which is its counter more or less.
Grizzly is similar to cyclops and has similar strengths and weaknesses, but cyclops leans heavier into the anti assault, while grizz leans into antiskirm

Besides Cyclops strenght is its hp pool, if you cant kill it with raiders, what do you do against it? skirms get slowed and mowed, riots obliterated, assaults are mangled, sling ig

I think Cyclops is far closer to needing a nerf than a buff.

Exactly what I'm saying, Lawesome9. It's buffing the weaknesses, and nerfing the strengths.

If one unit can do it all, why not only make that unit?

Recluse is very similar in that regard, its spread making in somewhat decent vs raiders, its only really held back by firewalker and generall squishyness. (aswell as baiting its volleys and surrounds, but everything is vunerable to that)

One cyclops isnt the issue, issue is that a ball of cyclops can get very close to not needing support against anything.
Most of your suggested sollutions fall flat or get increasingly harder, if there are multiple cyclops