Weapons

Reading a weapon

Every weapon component carries these fields:

Ammo

Ammo is a single shared pool for the whole Icaroid, not per-weapon. Three numbers govern it:

• Ammo Capacity - the pool's maximum, summed from the core, any utility that adds capacity (Missile Magazine +40, Electropanel, etc.), and Extended Magazine modifiers.
• Ammo Replenishment - ammo added at the end of every round, summed from the core and parts like the Ammo Fabricator (+3/round).
• Ammo Cost - each weapon's per-shot draw. A weapon can only fire if the pool holds at least its cost.

Energy and melee weapons (lasers, plasma, swords) cost no ammo - energy weapons instead spend from the per-round power budget, while melee is limited only by range. Ballistic and missile weapons draw from the pool, 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.

Delivery & tags

Tags can change how a weapon reaches its target:

Indirect Fire

Arcs over terrain and line-of-sight blocks, but lands with up to a couple of tiles of deviation. A spotter (Relay Targeting) or being Deployed tightens the scatter. Arcing fire also has a minimum range — a dead zone equal to 20% of the weapon's maximum range (rounded down) that it cannot lob inside of.

Missile / Rocket

Can be shot down in flight by point-defense weapons. Top-Attack arcs overhead and cannot be intercepted; Saturation Fire overwhelms point defense so only 40% is stopped.

Melee / Short-Range

One-to-a-few hex reach but heavy hits - Swords, Hammers, Arc Cutters. Unlike every other weapon, a melee arm swings after its wielder moves, so it can charge across the gap and strike on the same round it closes in. Pair with something that pins the enemy in place.

Area of Effect

Hits an area: explosive splash across connected components, or terrain-radius effects.

Auto-Fire / Battery

Ironfall Battery weapons fire automatically each round at a random enemy in range without spending the Icaroid's attack - but can't be aimed manually.

Ichor-Scaled

Chorus weapons whose damage/effect grows with the number of active glyph bonuses on the Icaroid.

On-hit effects

Many weapons apply a status effect on hit - this is where a weapon's identity often lives. Common ones in the tables below:

• Incendiary - sets a plasma burn that ticks each round.
• Suppressing - stacking accuracy penalty on the target.
• Entangling / Pinning - halve the target's movement.
• Stun On Hit - the target can't act next round.
• Stability Blow - extra stability damage, threatening a crash.
• Electric Disruption - electrical hits weaken the target's positive effects.
• Resonance Weakening - reduces the target's armor.
• Shield Siphon - steals shields onto the attacker.
• Null Suppressing - shuts off the target's glyph bonuses.

Weapon catalogue

Every weapon, grouped by faction. Dmg is per shot - multi-shot weapons note the count under Special, which also folds in on-hit effects and notable traits. Ammo is the per-shot draw from the shared pool; – means the weapon spends power or nothing instead. Damage type drives the shield/armor/structure math in How Damage Works.

Common

Welter heavy / ammo

Solari energy / precision

Chorus ichor-scaled

Ironfall missiles / artillery

Praxis single-target / drones

Exordia corrosion / affliction

Titan weapons any faction

The heavy ordnance a Titan mounts in its single titan-weapon port. They are deliberately oversized - far pricier than any standard-size weapon - and every faction's Titan can field any of them.

Weapon modifiers

Modifiers slot into a weapon's Modifier ports to change how it shoots: