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Chapter 12: Unit
Statistics
Projectile Weapons
After
your unit has wheels (or legs) and sufficient power, it's time to strap
on weaponry. The most important statistic to look at in this chart is
firepower. This rating, relative to the other weapons, determines the
amount of damage the weapon can inflict on an equally armored unit. Thus,
a chaos gun (firepower 8) is twice as powerful as a particle impactor
(firepower 4). Once new weapons are researched, it's possible to use energy
reserves to upgrade all existing units.
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TIP
Hold off on upgrading your existing unit weaponry
until you've reached the higher weapons. Save your energy reserves
until you've reached the higher prerequisites. Then again, if war
is imminent, you might need to upgrade weaponry as soon as possible.
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Weapon
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Ammo
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Fire-
power
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Muzzle Velocity
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Rate of Fire
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Max Range
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Target Acquisition
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Pre-
requisite
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Hand Weapon
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7.62mm U.N. standard
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1
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2100 fps
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max 120/min
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550 m
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Visual
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None
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Laser
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Diode
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2
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Fiber-
coupled
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5 nsec
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193 nm
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.84 gw
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Applied physics
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Particle impactor
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10mm caseless kinetic energy
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4
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2500 fps
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1100/min
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2700 m
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Optical
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Nonlinear mathe-
matics
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Missile launcher
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Mk. 12(t) sabre missile
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6
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Mach 2.2
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6/min
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90 km
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IR signature
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Synthetic fossil fuels
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Chaos
gun
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9mm caseless field disruptor
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8
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3000 fps
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10/min
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11 km
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Field Differential
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Superstring theory
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Conventional payload
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Only used with missile chassis
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9X reactor power
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Various
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N/A
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90km
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IR signature
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Orbital space-
flight
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Plasma
shard
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15mm Mass-energy shell
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13
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max 4000
fps
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160/min
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16 km
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Charged particle
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Advanced space-
flight
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Graviton gun
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2mm three-stage particle accelerated
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20
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9800 fps
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2000/min
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1.4 km
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Nanoremote
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Applied grav-
itonics
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Planet
buster
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Quasi-
nuclear
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99 (Cost: 32)
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N/A
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N/A
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Radius of destruction equal to reactor
size
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Targeting system
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Orbital gpaceflight
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Psi attack
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Patterned energy
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-1 (Cost: 10; 3 to 2 advantage on land;
1 to 1 on sea)
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Compelled disso-
ciative
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Line of sight
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Inverse to distance
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Psi lock
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Centauri psi
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Next:
Beam Weapons and Defenses
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