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Weapons

Weapons are how an Icaroid deals damage. Each one has a range, a base damage and damage type, an ammo appetite, and often an on-hit effect that does more than chip structure. This guide explains how to read a weapon's stats, how ammo works, what the delivery tags mean, and lists every weapon in the game by faction.

Reading a weapon

Every weapon component carries these fields:

Field	Meaning
Range	Maximum reach in hexes. 0 means it never fires offensively (shields, point defense).
Damage / Damage Type	Base hit and how it interacts with shields/armor/structure - see How Damage Works.
Accuracy	A flat bonus/penalty to the hit roll for this weapon.
Ammo Cost	Ammo drawn from the shared pool per shot. 0 = no ammo needed (energy/melee).
Power Cost	Power drawn from the per-round power budget per shot. Energy weapons spend power instead of ammo.
Weapon Effects	Effects applied to the target on hit (e.g. burn, entangle, suppress).
Effects	Always-on traits of the weapon itself (e.g. Indirect Fire, Ichor Scaled).
Abilities	Abilities the weapon grants (e.g. Deploy Mine, Raise Terrain).
Tags	Descriptors (ballistic, energy, missile, melee, aoe…) used by interception, modifiers, and glyphs.
Size	Large / Medium / Small / Artillery / Titan Weapon. The size of a weapon must match the port it slots into (see Building an Icaroid). Titan weapons mount only in a Titan core's single titan-weapon port (see Titans), but otherwise you may put a small weapon into a larger port.

Effects vs Weapon Effects

Effects describe the weapon (how it flies, how it scales). Weapon Effects are what it does to whoever it hits. An Ignis Flamethrower's Incendiary sets the target on fire; a Particle Accelerator's Channeled just describes that it charges up. Both lead into the Status Effects guide.

Ammo

Ammo is a single shared pool for the whole Icaroid. It's defined by three stats:

Ammo Capacity - the total ammo limit. All cores provide a baseline value, but ammo-heavy factions will generally have more. Components, modifiers, ichor glyphs, and Fire elemental affinity can boost this.
Ammo Replenishment - ammo added at the end of every round. As with ammo capacity, all cores provide at least a small amount. While rarer than ammo capacity, there are still many sources of ammo replenishment.
Ammo Cost - each weapon's per-shot ammo usage. A weapon cannot fire if the current ammo stockpiles don't have enough.

Energy and melee weapons (lasers, plasma, swords) cost no ammo. Energy weapons use power budget instead, while melee is limited only by range. Ballistic and missile weapons do draw from ammo, so a Welter or Ironfall build has to budget capacity and replenishment as carefully as firepower. The Welter faction's Ammo Depot even shares the pool to nearby allies, so your best bet for maintaining your supplies might be to bring along a tender rather than packing ammo replenishment into every unit.

Delivery & tags

Certain weapons can change how a shot reaches its target:

Indirect Fire: Arcs over terrain and line-of-sight blocks, but usually lands with up to a couple of tiles of deviation. A spotter (Relay Targeting) or being Deployed can reduce the scatter, but sometimes scatter can lead to fortunate accidents too! Arcing fire also has a minimum range, usually equal to 20% of the weapon's maximum range (rounded down).
Missile / Rocket: These projectiles can be tracked and shot down in flight by point-defense weapons. Top-Attack approaches from an angle point defense cannot easily hit overhead and cannot be intercepted; Saturation Fire overwhelms point defense so less of the volley can be stopped.
Melee / Short-Range: Short range, but Icaroids can swing melee weapons with an incredible amount of force. Unlike every other weapon, melee weapons are used after its wielder moves, so it can charge across the gap and strike on the same round it closes in. Best paired with a ranged weapon that pins the enemy in place or damages stability to catch up to nimble enemies.
Sweep: Some Bretteur blades cleave through multiple targets: the strike lands on the hex it hit and both hexes flanking it for full damage and inflicting all on-hit effects. The arc is calculated as the flanking hexes from the attackertaken from the target so it always points at whatever was struck. It is completely indiscriminate - an ally caught in the arc takes the same blow - and the arc narrows as the weapon's range grows.
Area of Effect: Hits an area, either via an explosive effect that can damage multiple components or a blast radius that can strike all units in an area.
Auto-Fire / Battery: Ironfall Battery weapons fire automatically each round at a random enemy in range without spending the Icaroid's attack. However, they can't be aimed manually.
Ichor-Scaled: Some specialized Chorus weapons gain damage as the number of active glyph bonuses on the weapon increases.

Point defense

A Scutum Point Defense or Point Defense Array cannot fire at enemies it only intercepts incoming missiles, rockets, and thrown weapons for itself and nearby allies. Counter it with Top-Attack or saturation missiles, or overwhelm it with sheer volume of fire.

On-hit effects

Many weapons and Ichor glyphs can apply a status effect on hit. Common effects include:

Incendiary - adds a plasma burn that damages an enemy each round.
Suppressing - stacks an accuracy penalty on the target.
Entangling / Pinning - reduces/halves the target's movement.
Stun On Hit - the target can't act next round.
Stability Blow - extra stability damage, potentially causing a crash.
Electric Disruption - weakens target's positive effects and can cause a powerful burst of plasma dmage if stacked too high.
Resonance Weakening - reduces the target's armor.
Shield Siphon - steals shields from the target and grants them to the attacker.
Null Suppressing - shuts off the target's glyph bonuses.

Weapon catalogue

This table lists every weapon by faction. Dmg is the damage of a whole fire action across all bullets or pellets fired. Multi-shot weapons note the count under Special. Ammo is the total draw from the ammo pool for firing; – means the weapon spends power or nothing instead.

Common

Weapon	Size	Rng	Dmg	Type	Ammo	Special
Praetorian Autorifle	large	12	42	piercing	1	3–4 shots/round
Ballistarius Rifle	large	16	45	piercing	1	long range, high accuracy
Lux Rifle	medium	10	40	laser	–	2–3 shots, bypasses shields
Spatha	medium	1	50	slashing	–	melee
Legion Rockets	medium	10	72	explosive	1	4 shots, splash, interceptable
Ignis Flamethrower	medium	3	35	plasma	–	Incendiary (burn)
Scutum Point Defense	medium	0	0	–	–	intercepts missiles
Velites Javelin	small	6	40	piercing	2	thrown, single-target

Welter heavy / ammo

Weapon	Size	Rng	Dmg	Type	Ammo	Special
Mauler Cannon	large	8	50	explosive	5	heavy alpha, splash
Groundquake Hammer	large	2	75	blunt	–	melee, Stability Blow (60), splash
Riot Shield	large	1	80	stability	–	melee, +55 armor, Shove, draws fire
Suppression Cannon	large	12	90	piercing	2	6 shots, Suppressing (stacks)
Trebuchet Artillery	artillery	12	65	explosive	3	indirect, aoe
Invader Shotgun	medium	6	120	slashing	1	shotgun: 4 pellets of 30, spread 2
Pest Control	medium	8	40	explosive	2	indirect, aoe
Mine Launcher	medium	2	45	explosive	1	grants Deploy Mine
Shocknet Launcher	medium	4	100	stability	2	Entangling
Dragonbreath Autocannon	medium	8	48	plasma	2	4 shots, Incendiary (burn)
Sparker	small	4	40	electrical	–	drains shields, Electric Disruption

Solari energy / precision

Weapon	Size	Rng	Dmg	Type	Ammo	Special
Plaser	large	12	480	laser	–	4–8 shots/round, accurate
Plasma Projector	large	8	55	plasma	–	Incendiary, splash
Particle Accelerator	large	14	70	piercing	–	Channeled, can't fire moving
Ion Disruptor	medium	6	40	electrical	–	Disrupting + Electric Disruption
Gravity Spike	medium	4	30	blunt	–	Pinning
Arc Cutter	small	2	45	slashing	–	melee, heavy stability + Electric Disruption
MLRS Bombardment	artillery	15	280	plasma	4	14 shots, indirect, imprecise splash

Chorus ichor-scaled

Weapon	Size	Rng	Dmg	Type	Ammo	Special
Ichor Bolt Caster	large	6	35	plasma	–	Ichor Scaled (Weapon) (grows with its glyphs)
Shard Lattice Cannon	large	12	20	piercing	–	Ichor Scaled (Weapon) (its own glyphs only)
Tesla Projector	medium	4	20	plasma	–	arcs to nearby, Incendiary
Resonance Pulse	medium	6	0	sensory	–	Resonance Weakening (aoe)
Drain Field Emitter	medium	8	15	electrical	–	Shield Siphon + Electric Disruption
Null Field Projector	medium	8	15	blunt	–	Null Suppressing (kills glyphs)
Rampart Projector	medium	4	50	stability	–	grants Raise Terrain
Resonance Quake	small	3	75	stability	–	grants Resonance Quake
Glacial Cantata	artillery	14	80	stability	–	indirect, seeds Blizzard (slow + obscure)
Tempest Chorale	artillery	14	50	electrical	–	indirect, seeds Resonance Storm (recurring stability dmg)

Ironfall missiles / artillery

Weapon	Size	Rng	Dmg	Type	Ammo	Special
Guided Missile Battery	large	10	126	explosive	2	3 homing shots, direct/indirect, interceptable
Cluster Bomb Launcher	large	8	15	explosive	4	indirect, scatters submunitions
Anti-Armor Missile	large	10	70	piercing	2	high armor penetration
Top-Attack Missile	large	14	60	piercing	3	indirect, Top-Attack - can't be intercepted
Micro-Missile Swarm	medium	6	200	slashing	2	20 shots, Saturation Fire (beats PD)
EMP Missile	medium	8	25	electrical	1	indirect, Electric Disruption
Pigeon Missile	artillery	12	65	explosive	2	auto-fires each round, indirect
Autoclave Battery	artillery	8	120	blunt	5	4 shots, auto-fires, indirect, aoe
Ballista Missile	artillery	20	90	explosive	4	indirect, aoe, interceptable

Praxis single-target / drones

Weapon	Size	Rng	Dmg	Type	Ammo	Special
Matter Projector	large	10	55	piercing	1	single-target, Stability Blow; also grants deflecting shields
Flechette Cannon	large	8	40	slashing	2	splash, shreds light armor
Disenfranchisor	large	8	20	laser	–	20 shots, melts armor through shields
Seeker Missile	artillery	15	200	slashing	8	indirect, single-target, extreme ammo cost
Position Manager	large	7	100	stability	–	Pull - drags a target out of position
Designated Receiver	large	10	0	electrical	–	Drone Target - directs friendly drone fire

Exordia corrosion / affliction

Weapon	Size	Rng	Dmg	Type	Ammo	Special
Acid Thrower	large	8	30	stability	1	thrown, Acid Gel + Entangling + Grounded
Shock Talon	medium	1	80	electrical	–	melee, Disrupting + Incendiary + Electric Disruption
Cloud Seeder	artillery	15	2	sensory	–	indirect, seeds Acid Rain
E-Bola	small	4	30	electrical	–	thrown, Entangling + Incendiary
Flame Whip	large	4	14	plasma	1	close-range, Flame Whip - stacking burn while in range
Power Siphon	medium	8	20	laser	–	Power Crippled - drains the enemy reactor
Ammo Cooker	medium	8	10	laser	–	Ammo Cookoff - ignites the target's ammo
Hexrifle	large	16	40	piercing	1	long range, Blight Devouring Nanites - lethal to already-afflicted targets
Acid Spray	medium	3	40	stability	–	Acid Gel + Grounded

Arx light weapons / shotguns

Weapon	Size	Rng	Dmg	Type	Ammo	Special
Cycle Cannon	large	11	288	piercing	1	6 shots
Pilum Laser	large	12	176	laser	–	5–6 shots, 3 power
Bastion Scattergun	large	5	165	blunt	2	shotgun: 6 pellets of 28, spread 2
Dispersal Laser	large	6	132	laser	–	shotgun: 6 pellets of 22, spread 2, 5 power
Picket Cannon	medium	9	128	piercing	1	3–4 shots
Lantern Laser	medium	7	112	laser	–	4 shots, 2 power

Bretteur sweeping blades / snares

Weapon	Size	Rng	Dmg	Type	Ammo	Special
Grand Moulinet	large	1	150	slashing	–	melee, sweep, Stability Blow (60)
Reaping Glaive	large	2	120	slashing	–	melee, sweep, Entangling
Harpoon Lance	large	6	46	piercing	4	thrown, Entangling
Wing Blades	medium	1	60	slashing	–	melee, sweep, light and cheap
Estoc	medium	1	90	piercing	–	melee, single-target, very accurate, 2 power
Volant Blades	medium	5	72	piercing	2	thrown: 4 blades of 18, spread 1
Weighted Net	medium	4	40	blunt	3	thrown, heavy entangle
Main-Gauche	small	1	40	piercing	–	melee, Melee Resistance (20), Entangling
Fusil	artillery	20	140	piercing	14	extreme range and accuracy; only the Epee chassis has the artillery port it needs

Alset chaining arcs

Weapon	Size	Rng	Dmg	Type	Ammo	Special
Arc Caster	large	8	54	electrical	–	chain: 2 jumps, range 2, −30%/hop; nullifying; 6 power
Lattice Lance	large	9	105	plasma	–	single-target; 8 power
Node Splitter	medium	4	42	electrical	–	chain: 4 jumps, range 1, −20%/hop; nullifying; 5 power
Smothering Coil	medium	7	20	electrical	–	chain: 1 jump, no falloff; heavy nullifying; 4 power
Shunt Repeater	medium	10	240	piercing	1	4 shots; the one ballistic Alset gun
Capacitor Battery	artillery	16	78	plasma	–	indirect, blast 1, ignites tiles; 9 power
Null Emitter	small	6	16	electrical	–	heavy nullifying + null-suppressing; 3 power
Earthing Spike	small	1	46	electrical	–	melee; nullifying; 2 power

Titan weapons any faction

These heavy weapons are only mounted by a Titan in its single titan-weapon port. They are expensive, but the results are usually worthwhile.

Weapon	Size	Rng	Dmg	Type	Ammo	Special
Colossus Siege Cannon	titan-weapon	18	180	piercing	6	2 shots, long-range ballistic
Solar Lance	titan-weapon	14	120	plasma	–	bores armor, ignites tiles
Saturation Rocket Battery	titan-weapon	16	180	explosive	8	3 shots, indirect, wide blast
Wide-Aperture Beam Projector	titan-weapon	20	80	laser	–	+10 accuracy, extreme range
Immolation Cannon	titan-weapon	12	50	explosive	10	wide blast, melts terrain, seeds fire
Vendetta Warblade	titan-weapon	4	185	slashing	–	sweeping cleave; entangling + stability blow
Arc Crown	titan-weapon	7	150	electrical	–	chain: 4 jumps, range 2, −25%/hop; nullifying; 14 power

Weapon modifiers

Modifiers slot into a weapon's Modifier ports to change how it shoots. Every one of them is listed below. Fits is the restriction on the host weapon: a modifier that wants a tag the weapon does not have cannot be attached at all. Modifiers that bolt onto armor, legs, utility or the core are covered in Building an Icaroid.

Modifier	Faction	Fits	Effect on the weapon
Targeting Reticle	common	any weapon	+25% accuracy (host weapon only).
Recoil Stabilizer	common	any weapon	Recoil Stabilized - cuts the moving-fire accuracy penalty 25–50%, and steadies the stability shock of firing.
Ablative Coating	common	any weapon	Reduces burning damage taken by 20%.
Extended Magazine	common	ammo weapons	+20 ammo pool capacity.
Flechette / Hollow Point / AP Ammo	welter	ballistic, non-explosive	Convert 75% of non-explosive damage to slashing / blunt / piercing and raise the converted damage. Only one ammo type at a time.
Charged Ammo	welter	ballistic, non-explosive	Converts 25% of damage to electrical. Only one ammo type at a time.
Heavy Ordnance	welter	ammo weapons	Boosts damage; +50% ammo consumption and weight.
Ammo Packs	welter	ammo weapons	External pouches holding extra rounds for the host weapon, at a heavy weight cost.
Overclock Module	solari	energy weapons	Overclocked - +1 shot per round; accuracy penalty on every shot.
Capacitor Bank	solari	energy weapons	Next shot +50–100% damage, then 2 rounds to recharge.
Flame-Retardant Plating	solari	energy weapons	Reduces burning damage taken by 35%.
Secondary Targeting AI	solari	any weapon	+20–40% accuracy and a smaller penalty against moving targets.
Resonance Crystal	chorus	any weapon	Adds electrical damage scaling with the host component's grid fill.
Smart Guidance Package	ironfall	missiles	−1 tile missile deviation; +15–30% direct-fire accuracy.
Tandem / Incendiary Warhead	ironfall	missiles	Convert explosive damage to piercing (armor pen) / plasma burn. Only one warhead at a time.
Micro-Missiles	ironfall	missiles	Double the shots per action, each for half the damage.
Auto-Loader System	ironfall	ammo weapons	+25% shots/turn on multi-shot weapons; +150% ammo cost.
Extended Battery Mag	ironfall	battery weapons	Cuts the host battery's ammo cost by 1–2 per shot, sustaining auto-fire through a long engagement.
Weakpoint Seeker	praxis	single-target weapons	+accuracy, and each hit stacks Drill Weakened so successive shots at the same target bite deeper.
Impact Smoke	praxis	ammo weapons	Drops a smoke cloud where the shot lands. It conceals whoever is standing in it, friend or enemy.
Intensifier	exordia	any weapon	Intensified - +25% strength to every on-hit effect this weapon applies.
Caustic Rounds	exordia	ammo weapons	Acid Gel on hit, eating the target's armor for several rounds.
Toxin Reservoir	exordia	any weapon	The same Acid Gel without ammunition, so energy and melee weapons can corrode too.
Blight Reaper	exordia	ammo weapons	Blight Devouring Nanites - lethal against a target already carrying an affliction.
Volatile Warhead	exordia	any weapon	Detonate - a target that dies within a few rounds bursts in a 2-hex radius.
Choke Tube	arx	shotguns	Choked Barrel - the pattern lands a tile tighter, and each pellet loses a quarter of its damage.
Honed Edge	bretteur	melee weapons	+10 damage for almost no weight.
Balance Counterweight	bretteur	melee weapons	+15 accuracy and a little structure.
Hooked Quillons	bretteur	melee weapons	Adds Entangling (30) to every strike.
Throwing Grooves	bretteur	thrown weapons	+2 range and +10 accuracy on the throwing racks.
Match Barrel	bretteur	ballistic weapons	+25 accuracy and Recoil Stabilized. In practice, a Fusil part.
Arc Splitter	alset	chaining weapons	Arc Split - +1 shot per round, but each arc makes 2 fewer jumps.
Charge Well	alset	any weapon	+3 reactor power per round, feeding a power-hungry emitter from its own reserve.
Null Winding	alset	any weapon	Nullifying (14) on hit, weakening the positive effects the target relies on.
Focusing Ring	alset	any weapon	+12 accuracy at a heavy weight cost.
Sabot Plate Armor	alset	any weapon	+40 structure and +4 armor on the weapon itself. It does nothing for the shooting; it keeps the gun alive.

Match weapons to weaknesses

Pick the damage type your target is weakest against where possible. Blunt or Laser damage can defeat shields, while Slashing is best against lightly-armored enemies.