Weapons | Icario

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 - must match the port it slots into (see Building an Icaroid).

Effects vs Weapon Effects

Effects describe the weapon (how it flies, how it scales). Weapon Effects are what it does to whoever it hits. A Flamethrower's Incendiary sets the target on fire; a Particle Lance'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, 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.

Ammo or power?

A weapon's Power Cost is the energy-weapon counterpart of Ammo Cost - drawn from the reactor budget each shot instead of the ammo pool. See Power & Reactors for the energy-vs-ammo trade-off.

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.
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. 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.

Point defense

A Point Defense Turret or Array fires no offense - it intercepts incoming missiles, rockets, and thrown weapons (tag-based) for itself and nearby allies. Counter it with Top-Attack or saturation missiles.

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.
Electrical Shock - bonus electrical damage that drains shields.
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. Special folds together on-hit effects and notable traits. Damage type drives the shield/armor/structure math in How Damage Works.

Common

Weapon	Size	Rng	Dmg	Type	Ammo	Special
Autorifle	large	12	25	piercing	1	multi-shot
Sniper Rifle	large	16	45	piercing	1	long range, high accuracy
Laser Rifle	medium	10	30	laser	-	bypasses shields
Sword	medium	1	50	slashing	-	light stability on hit
Rockets	medium	10	40	explosive	1	splash, interceptable
Flamethrower	medium	3	35	plasma	-	Incendiary (burn)
Point Defense Turret	medium	0	0	-	-	intercepts missiles
Javelin	small	6	40	piercing	2	thrown, ammo-hungry

Welter heavy / ammo

Weapon	Size	Rng	Dmg	Type	Ammo	Special
Cannon	large	8	60	blunt	1	extreme alpha
Hammer	large	1	55	blunt	-	Stability Blow (60)
Shield	large	0	0	-	-	draws fire, +55 armor
Suppression Cannon	large	12	20	piercing	1	Suppressing (stacks)
Artillery	artillery	20	60	explosive	1	indirect, aoe
Missile Artillery	artillery	18	65	explosive	1	indirect, interceptable
Shotgun	medium	8	45	slashing	1	damage falls off with range
Grenade Launcher	medium	8	40	explosive	1	indirect, aoe
Mine Launcher	medium	2	45	explosive	1	grants Deploy Mine
Net Launcher	medium	4	0	stability	2	Entangling (no damage)
Incendiary Projector	medium	8	35	plasma	1	Incendiary (burn)
Taser	small	5	30	electrical	-	Electrical Shock (40)

Solari energy / precision

Weapon	Size	Rng	Dmg	Type	Ammo	Special
Pulse Laser	large	12	30	laser	-	4–8 shots/round, accurate
Plasma Cannon	large	8	55	plasma	-	Incendiary, splash, heat
Particle Lance	large	14	70	piercing	-	Channeled, can't fire moving
Ion Disruptor	medium	6	30	electrical	-	Disrupting + shock (30)
Gravity Spike	medium	4	30	blunt	-	Pinning
Arc Cutter	small	2	45	slashing	-	stun + stability + shock

Chorus ichor-scaled

Weapon	Size	Rng	Dmg	Type	Ammo	Special
Ichor Bolt Caster	large	10	35	plasma	-	Ichor Scaled (grows with glyphs)
Shard Lattice Cannon	large	12	20	piercing	-	Ichor Scaled
Tesla Projector	medium	6	20	plasma	-	arcs to nearby, Incendiary
Resonance Pulse	medium	6	0	sensory	-	Resonance Weakening (aoe)
Drain Field Emitter	medium	8	15	electrical	-	Shield Siphon + shock
Null Field Projector	medium	8	10	blunt	-	Null Suppressing (kills glyphs)
Rampart Projector	medium	4	20	stability	-	grants Raise Terrain
Resonance Quake	small	3	15	stability	-	grants Resonance Quake

Ironfall missiles / artillery

Weapon	Size	Rng	Dmg	Type	Ammo	Special
Guided Missile Battery	large	10	35	explosive	1	2–4 homing, interceptable
Cluster Bomb Launcher	large	8	25	explosive	1	indirect, scatters submunitions
Anti-Armor Missile	large	10	70	piercing	2	high armor penetration
Top-Attack Missile	large	8	60	piercing	2	can't be intercepted
Micro-Missile Swarm	medium	6	15	slashing	1	Saturation Fire (beats PD)
EMP Missile	medium	8	25	electrical	1	indirect, Electrical Shock
Volley Cannon	artillery	10	35	explosive	2	auto-fires each round
Autoshot Battery	artillery	6	45	explosive	2	auto-fires, high per-shot

Weapon modifiers

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

Modifier	Faction	Effect on the weapon
Targeting Reticle	common	+10–25% accuracy.
Extended Magazine	common	+20 ammo pool capacity.
Recoil Stabilizer	common	Cuts the moving-fire accuracy penalty 25–50%.
Cooling Fins	common	Reduces overheating on energy/plasma weapons.
Flechette / Hollow Point / AP Ammo	welter	Convert 75% of non-explosive damage to slashing / blunt / piercing.
Charged Ammo	welter	Converts 25% of damage to electrical.
Heavy Ordinance	welter	+10–50% damage; +ammo cost and weight.
Overclock Module	solari	+25–50% fire rate; stacking overheat risk.
Capacitor Bank	solari	Next shot +50–100% damage, then recharges.
Resonance Crystal	chorus	Adds electrical damage scaling with grid fill.
Smart Guidance Package	ironfall	−1 tile missile deviation; +direct-fire accuracy.
Tandem / Incendiary Warhead	ironfall	Convert explosive to piercing (armor pen) / plasma burn.
Auto-Loader System	ironfall	Fire every turn instead of every other; +ammo cost.

Match weapon to weakness

Pick the damage type your target is soft to - Blunt or Laser into shields, Slashing into bare structure - then stack a modifier or glyph that attacks the same weak point.