Category:Large Weapon

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[edit] Overview

  • Large Weapons are the main weapons of ships to fight against enemy ships and bases. They are much more powerful than small weapons.
  • There are 20 different kinds of large weapons you can put on your ships. To be able to build a special kind of large weapon, you first have to upgrade to the needed large weapon tech level.
  • The amount of large weapons you can mount on a ship depends on the Hull and can vary from 0 to 20.
  • You cannot put all kinds of large weapons on every ship. Each ship hull has a parameter telling the max. weight each large weapon put on that ship may have.
  • All large weapon mounts on ships have mass dampers that will reduce the mass of any weapon to max. 200kt for fuel consumption purposes (this has no effect on the restriction mentioned above however).
  • The attribute Max Charge seen in the ingame Weapon Specs is simply Power Drain * Charge Time


Red = weak/low/expensive value, Bold = strong/high/cheap value, Green = strongest/highest/cheapest value.

Tech Name Cost Mass Dur. Trit. Moly. Range Acc. PD Odds Charge Time Power Drain Ord Usage Hardness
14 Gatling Phasor 2900 150 25 5 120 600 50 30 2 15 0 230
13 Large Turbo Laser Array 7200 2000 400 45 55 510 60 0 1 100 0 450
12 Turbo Laser Array 3700 800 200 20 30 510 50 10 2 25 0 170
11 Ionic Gun Array 1200 700 10 110 80 670 40 0 2 40 0 140
10 Pulsed Phasor Cannon 650 50 2 8 40 490 67 35 8 25 0 70
9 Particle Cannon 290 40 38 1 1 305 45 50 16 20 1 60
8 Plasma Bolt Cannon 800 150 140 5 5 250 30 40 20 35 2 165
7 Photon Torpedo Tube 300 50 40 9 1 954 90 95 8 1 10 70
6 Energy Mines 90 40 1 1 38 260 70 70 12 10 3 50
5 Ion Cannon 190 40 4 35 1 640 40 20 26 3 0 95
4 Blaster Cannon 210 60 2 2 56 335 75 20 100 3 1 120
4 Anti-Matter Gun 80 60 58 1 1 440 25 70 10 1 2 110
3 Mass Driver 110 30 25 1 4 350 21 85 10 1 5 10
3 Disrupter Cannon 270 40 5 25 10 490 53 35 5 8 0 90
2 Force Beam 450 40 1 1 38 620 68 10 8 5 0 160
2 Fusion Cannon 210 60 5 50 5 410 59 12 10 4 0 40
2 Sand Caster 120 30 28 1 1 280 99 0 5 4 25 30
1 Merculite Rockets 40 30 1 28 1 400 65 75 12 1 3 70
1 500mm Gun 70 60 58 1 1 400 20 60 10 1 5 110
1 Heavy Laser 10 40 30 1 9 570 40 40 40 1 0 40

[edit] Damage

  • The following table contains information on the inflicting damage if a Large Weapon has successfully landed a hit on its target.
  • The Shield Drain and Armor Drain values can be improved by Exotic Tech for all Large Weapons.
  • The Armor ODrain value is the Armor Drain that Organic Armor takes from Large Weapons.


Tech Name Shield Armor Blast
Power 		Kill
Power 		Damage to Systems
Drain Arc Drain ODrain Arc Weapons Engines Hyperdrive Control Life
14 Gatling Phasor 25 - 10 4 - 25 15 20 20 1 1 5
13 Large Turbo Laser Array 80 - 45 15 20 100 45 70 50 35 12 10
12 Turbo Laser Array 41 - 20 7 20 50 20 25 20 15 3 4
11 Ionic Gun Array 2 - - - 3000 10 1 - - - 25 -
10 Pulsed Phasor Cannon 100 - 60 16 - 100 30 40 60 1 1 10
9 Particle Cannon 60 - 13 4 - 30 10 5 16 5 16 30
8 Plasma Bolt Cannon 120 260 70 70 70 250 450 60 1 1 4 45
7 Photon Torpedo Tube 90 - 20 23 20 170 150 35 30 1 2 10
6 Energy Mines 20 - 5 2 30 40 6 40 1 1 6 1
5 Ion Cannon 4 - - - 3000 16 1 - - - 10 -
4 Blaster Cannon 180 140 80 82 - 220 530 150 100 1 4 20
4 Anti-Matter Gun 2 20 70 57 25 90 340 20 1 1 2 15
3 Mass Driver 30 - 20 32 - 10 220 10 5 1 1 1
3 Disrupter Cannon 15 - 5 11 25 10 80 10 30 1 1 60
2 Force Beam 3 150 6 1 150 10 2 10 5 1 6 1
2 Fusion Cannon 5 75 22 5 60 15 2 7 6 1 1 1
2 Sand Caster 70 - 1 - - 1 1 1 - - 1 -
1 Merculite Rockets 70 10 2 27 - 50 212 5 10 1 8 4
1 500mm Gun 60 20 10 7 - 35 40 10 1 - 1 1
1 Heavy Laser 30 - 18 6 20 40 20 40 20 7 1 6


[edit] Special

Tech Name Special
14 Gatling Phasor Can shoot at enemy fighters.
8 Plasma Bolt Cannon Target armor reduced by 4 on non-Lizard hulls and Targets not owned by Lizards.
7 Photon Torpedo Tube Holo Decoys reduce accuracy by 1/4 their numbers (by max 60 if there is 240+ of them).
6 Energy Mines After penetrating shields, 100 + Rnd*100 Repair Units on the Target are destroyed.
4 Blaster Cannon Large Weapon Blast increased by 3000 when Target is a Base.
4 Anti-Matter Gun Large Weapon Blast increased by 700 when Target is a Base.
2 Force Beam After penetrating shields, 200 + Rnd*200 Ordnance on the Target are destroyed.
2 Sand Caster Concussion Rockets are the only Point Defense that can deflect a Sand Caster shot (60% chance).
The Exotic Tech Energized Sand will counter the Concussion Rocket 50% of the time. Sand Casters can shoot at enemy fighters. They also destroy Holo Decoys.
1 500mm Gun Large Weapon Blast increased by 1000 when Target is a Base.

[edit] Racial Specials

[edit] Aczanny

  • Active Aczanny ECM reduces accuracy of non-Aczanny hulls by 30
  • Mass Driver on Aczanny hulls get a 42 point accuracy bonus
  • Mass Driver on Aczanny hulls drain an additional 10 points of armor
  • Large Weapon Kill rating on Aczanny hull is 50% normal
  • Large Weapon Kill rating for Mass Driver on Aczanny hull is 5% normal

[edit] Birdman

  • All Large Weapons on Darkwing G pass through all Shields on Cyborg owned ships
  • All Large Weapons on Darkwing G pass through all Shields on captured Cyborg hulls
  • All Large Weapons on Darkwing G drain an additional 50% Armor Drain to Coalition Organic Armor.
  • All Large Weapons on Darkwing G inflict double normal ArmorDrain on other ships.
  • All Large Weapons on Darkwing G gain +1000 Armor Arc against a Birdmen owned ship and a captured Darkwing G.

[edit] Coalition

[edit] Colonies of Man

  • The Virgo Class drains an additional 5 armor when firing ord-using Large Weapons.
  • The Virgo Class drains an additional 5 armor when firing ord-using Large Weapons against Robot-owned ships. (stacks with above)
  • The Virgo Class drains an additional 10 armor from Lizard-owned ships with ord-using Large Weapons. (does not stack with above)
  • The Virgo Class drains an additional 10 armor from captured Lizard hulls with ord-using Large Weapons. (does not stack with above)
  • The Virgo Class deals 2x normal blast damage to Target's hull with Large Weapons.

[edit] Crystals

  • A Crystal-owned ship hit by an Ord using Large Weapon is dealt 3x normal Shield Drain
  • A Crystal-owned ship hit by a non-Ord using Large Weapon is dealt 1/2 normal Shield Drain
  • A Crystal-owned ship hit by a non-Ord using Large Weapon absorbs half the energy needed to fire the weapon.
  • Diamond Flame Class Battleship
    • Dealt 1/2 normal Shield Drain by all Large Weapons
    • Absorbs half the energy needed to fire Large Weapon hitting it.
    • Ord using Large Weapons increase Shield by 3 (max 14,000) and Armor by 2 (Max 850).
  • NOTE:Extra Shield Drain by Stormers, Coalition, Overchargers and Energized Sand is dealt after the above reductions take place.

[edit] Cyborg

  • Large Weapons firing at ships that are of Cyborg design or are owned by the Cyborg do not benefit from the Large Weapon Overcharger Exotic Techs.
    • Darkwing Gs that are firing are immune to this effect.

[edit] Enforcers

  • Large Weapon Damage Sys rating is 2x normal (bug?, should be 4x?)
  • Large Weapon Kill rating is 1/2 normal
  • NOTE: These *might* require a UEA hull

[edit] Evil Empire

[edit] Lizards

  • Lizard-owned ships or captured Lizard hulls take only 1/3 normal ArmorDrain.
    • Virgo Class firing ord-using weapons deals an additional 10 points of ArmorDrain, which is not reduced.
  • Lizard-owned ships or captured Lizard hulls take only 1/2 normal ArmorDrain from Exotic Tech Large Weapon Magnum.
  • Saurian Class Cruiser takes 0 losses to crew and guests from Large Weapons.
  • Lizard-owned ships that are Lizard hulls have their Large Weapon Blast increased to Rnd * Weapon Blast * 50 + 100 vs ground base.

[edit] Mivorari

  • Mivorari Point Defense accuracy has a reduction of 50%

[edit] Privateer

  • Large Weapons deal 4x normal Shield Drain against ships not owned by Privateer when carrying the target's plans.
  • Large Weapons deal 4x normal Armor Drain against ships not owned by Privateer when carrying the target's plans.
  • Large Weapons kill 4x normal crew and guests.

[edit] Solar Federation

  • All Large Weapons get a 10 point accuracy bonus (combine with below)
  • Photon Torpedo Tube gets a 50 point accuracy bonus (before range and evasion modifiers)
  • Pulsed Phasor Cannon gets 30 point accuracy bonus
  • Gatling Phasor gets 40 point accuracy bonus
  • Photon Torpedoes that would have been shot down by Point Defense have a 60% chance of not being shot down. (Fed owner only)

[edit] Solorian

  • A Solorian-owned ship hit by an Ord using Large Weapon is dealt 1/2 normal Shield Drain
  • A Solorian-owned ship hit by an non-Ord using Large Weapon is dealt 2x normal Shield Drain

[edit] Stormers

  • Photon Torpedos only have a Shield Drain of 5 vs Stormer owned ships.
  • Stormer owned Large Weapons have a +3 bonus to their Shield Drain
  • Stormer owned Large Weapons have a +300 bonus to their Shield Arc.
  • Stormer owned Large Weapons have a +3 bonus to Blast damage on Target's hull.
  • Ill Wind Class Battlecruiser Evasion modifier is set to 1.9 when targeting ships with an Evasion > 70 (Stormer owner only). It takes 0 losses to crew and guests from Large Weapons. Each tick an additional 5 points of energy are added to its Large Weapons which causes them to fire faster than normal. Its Large Weapons cannot be damaged during combat.
  • Large Weapons on Stormer (owned?) ships will continue to charge and fire in combat, regardless of any Weapon Damage sustained.

[edit] Colonies of Kobol

  • Ordinance based Large Weapons gain +40 accuracy with the exception of PTT and sandcasters
  • Energy Based Large Weapons have a -40 accuracy penalty for this race

[edit] Circle of Twelve

  • Ordinance based Large Weapons gain +40 accuracy with the exception of PTT and sandcasters
  • Energy Based Large Weapons have a -40 accuracy penalty for this race

[edit] Order of Events

[edit] Load Ship Data

See Load Ship Data.

[edit] Find Target

See The Battle Manual:Targeting page.

[edit] Fire

See The Battle Manual:Firing page.

[edit] Point Defense

  • If a Large Weapon theoretically hits an enemy ship, the ship still has a chance to shoot down the incoming fire with its Point Defense. The order of events for this can be found here.

[edit] Skill Increase

  • Each successful Hit has a 10% chance of increasing Ship's Skill by +1, to a maximum of 30,000.

[edit] Ship Bump

  • Target may be pushed, dependant on mass and power of Weapon.
  • I'll break this down at a later date.

[edit] Shields

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If Target owned by Crystal
  If Target is Diamond Flame Class Battleship
    Target shield reduced by Weapon ShieldDrain / 2
    Target Absorbs Weapon FullCharge / 2
    If Weapon uses Ord
      If Target shield < 15000
        Target shield increased by 3
      If Target armor < 850
        Target armor increased by 2
  Else (not Diamond Flame)
    If Weapon uses Ord
      Target shield reduced by Weapon ShieldDrain * 3
    Else (Weapon does not use Ord)
      Target shield reduced by Weapon ShieldDrain / 2
      Target Absorbs Weapon FullCharge / 2

Else (Target not owned by Crystal)
  If Target owned by Solorian
    If Weapon uses Ord
      Target shield reduced by Weapon ShieldDrain / 2
    Else (Weapon does not use Ord)
      Target shield reduced by Weapon ShieldDrain * 2

  Else (Target not owned by Solorian)
    If Weapon is Photon Torpedo and Target is owned by Stormer
      Target shield reduced by 5
    Else
      If Target not owned by Evil Empire AND Weapon is not Heavy Laser
        If Target is not Evil Empire hull AND Weapon is not Heavy Laser
          If Target is not owned by Cyborg AND Ship is not Darkwing G
            If Target is not Cyborg hull AND Ship is not Darkwing G
              If Target not owned by Coalition AND Weapon is not Energy Mine
                Target shield reduced by Weapon ShieldDrain
                If Target is not owned by Privateer and Ship is owned by Privateer
                  *I assume the following checks Ship for Target's plans
                  If Target's Bit9 = 1
                    If Ship's Bit10 = 1
                      Target shield reduced by Weapon ShieldDrain*3 (4x normal)

If Ship owned by Stormer
  Target shield reduced by 3

If Weapon is Plasma Bolt Cannon
  If Ship is Lotus Class Pursuit Ship or Aurora Class Flagship
    Target shield reduced by 4

' Exotic Tech Large Weapon Overcharger
If  NOT (Target is owned by Evil Empire)
AND NOT (Target is owned by Cyborg AND Ship is Darkwing G)
AND NOT (Target is Cyborg hull AND Ship is Darkwing G)
  Target shield reduced by Exotic Tech Large Weapon Overcharger

If Weapon is Sand Caster and Energized Sand Active
  Target shield reduced by 50

vShield = Target shield – Weapon ShieldArc  (Virtual shield, after Shield Arc)
If Ship owned by Stormer
  vShield reduced by 300

[edit] Armor

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If (vShield <= 0) OR (Target shield = 0)
OR (If Target owned by Evil Empire AND Weapon is Heavy Laser)
OR (If Target is captured Evil Empire hull AND Weapon is Heavy Laser)
OR (If Target owned by Coalition AND Weapon is Energy Mine)
OR (If Target owned by Cyborg and Ship is Darkwing G)
OR (If Target Cyborg hull and Ship is Darkwing G)

  If Weapon is Energy Mines
    vDamage = 100 + Rnd * 100
    Target Repair reduced by vDamage

  If Weapon is Force Beam
    vDamage = 200 + Rnd * 200
    Target Ord reduced by vDamage

  ' Against ships with organic armor
  If Target is (Willow Class Survey Ship) OR (Everygreen Science Vessel)
  OR (Lotus Class Pursuit Ship) OR (Aurora Class Flagship)
    Target Armor reduced by ((Weapon ArmorDrain / 5) + (Weapon Kill / 8))
      If Ship is Darkwing G
        Target armor reduced by Weapon ArmorDrain / 2

  Else (non-Organic Armor)
    If Target owned by Lizards OR is Lizard hull
      Target armor reduced by Weapon ArmorDrain / 3
      Target armor reduced by Exotic Tech Large Weapon Magnum / 2
    If Ship is Virgo Class  (Virgo get bonus vs Lizards, not the reverse?)
      If Weapon uses Ord
        Target armor reduced by 10
    Else (non-Lizard hull, not owned by Lizard)
      Target armor reduced by Weapon ArmorDrain
      Target armor reduced by Exotic Tech Large Weapon Magnum
      If Ship is Darkwing G
        Target armor reduced by Weapon ArmorDrain (for 2x drain)
      If Target not owned by Privateer AND Ship owned by Privateer
        *I assume the following checks Ship for Target's plans
        If Target's Bit9 = 1
          If Ship's Bit10 = 1
            Target armor reduced by Weapon ArmorDrain*3
      If Weapon is Mass Driver
        If Ship is Aczanny hull
          Target armor reduced by 10
      If Ship is Virgo Class
        If Weapon uses Ord
          Target armor reduced by 5
          If Target owned by Robot
            Target armor reduced by 5

  If Weapon is Plasma Bolt Cannon
    IF Target not owned by Lizard AND Target not Lizard hull
      Target armor reduced by 4

[edit] Damage

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vArmor = Target's Armor - Weapon's Armor Arc

If Weapon is Sand Caster and Energized Sand is Active
  vArmor reduced by 2000
If Ship is Darkwing G and (Target is Darkwing G or Birdmen owned)
  vArmor reduce by 1000

If (vArmor <= 0) OR (Target Armor = 0)
OR (10% chance if Target owned by Evil Empire AND Weapon is Heavy Laser) 
OR (If Target is captured Evil Empire hull AND Weapon is Heavy Laser)

  (1 vH point = 1/10 damage unit)

  ' HULL DAMAGE
  vD = Weapon Blast
  If Ship owned by Stormer (possibly requires Stormer hull)
    vD = vD + 3
  If Ship is Virgo Class
    vD = vD * 2
  vS = target’s parts modifier
  vH = ((vD * (vS / 100)) * (Rnd * 0.2 + 0.8)) * (500 / (target hullmass + 50)) + 0.5
  DamageHull = DamageHull + vH
  Maximum of 5000

  ' ENGINE DAMAGE
  vD = Weapon Engine Damage
  vS = target’s engine modifier
  vH = ((vD * (vS / 100)) * (0.5 + Rnd)) * (100 / (target hullmass + 50)) + 0.5
  DamageEngine = DamageEngine + vH
  Maximum of 5000

  ' HYPERDRIVE DAMAGE
  Check if ship has HyperDrive:
    vD = Weapon HyperDrive Damage * 10
    vS = target’s hyperdrive modifier
    vH = ((vD * (vS / 100)) * (Rnd + 1)) * (100 / hullmass + 50)) + 0.5
    DamageHyp = DamageHyp + vH
    Maximum of 5000

  ' SYSTEM DAMAGE
  vD = Weapon System Damage * 10
  vS = target’s system modifier
  vH = ((vD * (vS / 100)) * (2+ Rnd)) * (100 / hullmass+50)) + 0.5
  If Ship is owned by UEA (possibly requires UEA hull)
    vH = vH * 2 (2x, not 4x?)
  If Energized Sand is active
    vH = vH + 200
  DamageSys = DamageSys + vH
  Maximum of 5000

  ' LIFE DAMAGE
  vD = Weapon Life Damage * 10
  vS = enemy’s life modifier
  VH = ((vD * (vS / 100)) * (Rnd+ 2)) * (300 / hullmass + 250)) + 3.5
  DamageLife = DamageLife + vH
  Maximum of 5000

  ' SHIELD GENERATOR AND WEAPONS
  vD = Weapon Parts Damage * 10
  vS = enemy’s parts modifier
  vH = ((vD * (vS / 100)) * (0.7 + (0.3 * Rnd))) * (100 / hullmass + 50)) + 0.5
  DamageShield = DamageShield + vH
  Maximum of 5000
  vH = ((vD * (vS / 100)) * (1.5 + Rnd * 0.3)) * (100 / hullmass + 50)) + 0.5
  DamageWeapons = DamageWeapons + vH
  Maximum of 5000

  ' SOFT SPOT
  If (Weapon Parts Damage > 1
  AND NOT (If Target owned by Evil Empire AND Weapon is Heavy Laser))
  OR (If Target is captured Evil Empire hull AND Weapon is Heavy Laser)
    If Target Enhancer is Active
      If Rnd * 20 < SoftSpot
        DamageHull = DamageHull + 600 + Rnd * 2000
    Else (Target Enhancer not Active)
      If Rnd * 100 < SoftSpot
        DamageHull = DamageHull + 600 + Rnd * 2000

  ' KILL CREW
  w = Target’s Crew
  v = (Rnd + 0.5) * Weapon Kill
  If Ship is owned by Privateer
    v = v * 4
  If v > w
    v = w

  If (Target is (Willow Class Survey Ship) OR (Everygreen Science Vessel)
  OR (Lotus Class Pursuit Ship) OR ([[Aurora Class Flagship]))
  AND Ship is not owned by Privateers
    v = v / 5
  If Ship is owned by UEA (possibly requires UEA hull)
    v = v * 0.5
  If Ship is Aczanny hull
    v = v * 0.5
  If Weapon is Mass Driver
    If Ship is Aczanny hull
      v = v / 10 (total of  v / 20)
  If Target is NOT Ill Wind Class Battlecruiser Or Saurian Class Cruiser
    Crew = Crew – v
    Colonists = Colonists – v * 10
    Troops = Troops – v * 3
    Minimum of 0 for all

[edit] VS Base

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If Avoid Ground Base OFF

  If Ship is owned by Lizards AND Ship is a Lizard hull
  OR (Base has no Base Shield AND Fire at Ground Targets is ON)

    rOdds = Weapon Hit Odds * 2

    If (Rnd * 100) < rOdds
      HIT!
      Incoming Fire counter increased by Rnd * Weapon Blast * 5
      If Ship is owned by Lizards AND Ship is a Lizard hull
        Incoming Fire counter increased by Rnd * Weapon Blast * 50 + 100
      If Weapon is 500mm Gun
        Incoming Fire counter increased by 1000
      If Weapon is Anti-Matter Gun
        Incoming Fire counter increased by 700
      If Weapon is Blaster Cannon
        Incoming Fire counter increased by 3000

      If there are Base Ion Cannons
        If Rnd * 3000 < Incoming Fire counter
          If Rnd < 0.2
            1 Base Ion Cannon destroyed

      If Incoming Fire count > BaseMaxIncoming
        Base Destroyed!

[edit] VS Fighter

See The Battle Manual:Firing page.

[edit] VS Pods

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If Rnd * 100 < Weapon Hit Odds
  If Target is Assault Pod
    If Weapon Blast > (Rnd * 100)
      HIT!
      Target Destroyed
  Else
    HIT!
    Target Destroyed

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