# Guns of the Mechanised Age *The Heavy Armory, Siege Engines, Great Guns, and Vehicle Weapons for Exodus NDS. Source: https://exodusnds.com/sourcebooks/heavy-armory/guns-of-the-mechanised-age* Ground weapons from 1939 to today: what is bolted to a tank, towed behind a truck, or carried in three loads by an infantry section. The first five entries are **personal-scale** crew weapons. They are what a squad owns. Everything after them is what a squad calls for. ## Shells A gun of this chapter or the last fires any of these that suits it. The loader chooses. | Shell | Effect | Price | |:--|:--|:-:| | **High explosive** | The listed profile for howitzers and mortars. For tank and field guns: no Pierce, and Blast 3 | x1 | | **Armour-piercing** | The listed profile for tank and anti-tank guns. No Blast | x1 | | **Shaped charge (from 1942)** | Pierce 4, whatever the gun. Damage does not fall with range. Blast 1 | x2 | | **Sabot (from 1944)** | Pierce 2 higher. No Blast. Long-barrelled guns only | x4 | | **Shrapnel or canister** | Range becomes Medium. Against people, Blast equal to the gun's Hull damage, with no Boons needed. Half damage to vehicles | x1 | | **Smoke** | No damage. A cloud of Short radius for 5 rounds: add 2 Bane Dice to attacks through it | x1 | | **Illumination** | No damage. Lights everything within Long range of the burst for 3 rounds | x1 | ##### Heavy Machine Gun Fifty-calibre, twelve-seven, the deuce
12 3 Extreme 10
Gunnery 14000 Military 1939 Ballistic Auto-Fire, Pierce 3, Vicious 2, Sustained Fire, Breach 1, Emplaced, Crew 2, Prepare 2
The gun on the tripod, the truck ring, the tank cupola, and the boat's bow. Mounted on a vehicle it is the Pintle Gun of *The Starship Armory*. **Breach 1**: it holes unarmoured and lightly armoured vehicles. ##### Automatic Grenade Launcher Belt-fed launcher, forty-mil gun
8 4 Extreme 9
Gunnery 20000 Military 1968 Blast Auto-Fire, Blast 6, Pierce 4, Breach 1, Emplaced, Crew 2, Prepare 2, Limited Ammo 6
A machine gun that fires grenades. Each Auto-Fire hit triggers its own Blast for 1 Boon. ##### Medium Mortar Eighty-one, eighty-two, battalion mortar
12 3 Extreme 12
Gunnery 25000 Military 1939 Blast Indirect, Blast 10, Siege 2, Emplaced, Crew 3, Prepare 3
The infantry's own artillery: three loads for three people and a bomb every few seconds. It cannot attack inside Medium range. ##### Recoilless Rifle Recoilless gun, one-oh-six, jeep gun
16 3 Extreme 14
Gunnery 12000 Military 1944 Blast Blast 6, Pierce 6, Breach 3, Backblast 6, Emplaced, Crew 2, Prepare 2, Slow-Firing 1
A light gun that vents its recoil backwards, small enough for a jeep or a tripod. It gives infantry a tank-killing weapon with a visible signature every time it fires. ##### Anti-Tank Guided Missile Wire-guided missile, tripod missile
18 2 Extreme 12
Gunnery 60000 Military 1960 Blast Blast 6, Pierce 6, Breach 4, Guided 3, Emplaced, Crew 2, Prepare 2, Limited Ammo 1, Slow-Firing 1
A missile steered to its target by the gunner through a wire or a beam. The gunner must keep the sight on the target until it hits: an attack on the gunner before then adds 2 Bane Dice to the missile. It cannot attack inside Medium range. ##### Automatic Cannon Twenty- to thirty-mil cannon, chain gun, Oerlikon
Light 4 4 Long 2
90000 Military 1939 Ballistic Auto-Fire, Pierce 1, Anti-Air, Limited Ammo 20
The gun of armoured cars, infantry fighting vehicles, patrol boats, and light anti-aircraft mounts. It is the Autocannon of *The Starship Armory* with a faster cyclic rate. ##### Light Tank Gun Thirty-seven, two-pounder, light anti-tank gun
Light 4 3 Long 3
40000 Military 1939 Ballistic Pierce 2, Crew 3
The gun of the tanks and anti-tank batteries of 1939. Within three years it could not hurt the tanks it faced. ##### Medium Tank Gun Seventy-five, seventy-six, six-pounder
Standard 5 3 Long 4
120000 Military 1941 Ballistic Pierce 3, Blast 2, Crew 4, Slow-Firing 1
The gun of the medium tank and of the towed anti-tank gun that waited for it. **Slow-Firing 1** is the loader in a cramped turret; on an open field carriage with a full crew it is ignored. ##### Heavy Tank Gun Eighty-eight, ninety, seventeen-pounder, one-twenty-two
Standard 6 3 Extreme 5
250000 Military 1942 Ballistic Pierce 4, Blast 2, Crew 5, Slow-Firing 1
A high-velocity gun, first built to shoot at aircraft and then pointed at tanks. It kills a medium tank of its day in two hits at any range it can see. ##### Main Battle Tank Gun One-oh-five, one-twenty, one-twenty-five smoothbore
Standard 6 3 Extreme 4
600000 Military 1960 Ballistic Accurate 1, Pierce 5, Blast 2, Crew 4
A stabilised gun with a ballistic computer. It fires on the move and hits what it aims at. With an autoloader the crew is 3. ##### Light Howitzer One-oh-five, twenty-five-pounder, pack howitzer
Standard 6 4 Long to Extreme 6
200000 Military 1939 Blast Indirect, Blast 4, Crew 6
The divisional gun: light enough to tow behind a truck or sling under a helicopter. It may fire directly at Medium range without Indirect, at 5 Hull with Pierce 1. ##### Rocket Artillery Rocket truck, multiple launcher, organ
Standard 5 4 Extreme 3
300000 Military 1941 Blast Indirect, Blast 4, Inaccurate 2, Salvo 4, Crew 3, Limited Ammo 4, Prepare 10
A truck with rails or tubes for a dozen to forty rockets, fired in seconds. Each of four ripples is one attack. Reloading takes ten minutes, by which time the truck should be somewhere else. ##### Heavy Anti-Aircraft Gun Eighty-eight, three-point-seven, ninety-mil
Standard 6 3 Extreme 6
250000 Military 1939 Blast Blast 3, Anti-Air, Crew 6
A high-velocity gun firing time-fused shells into the path of aircraft. It can hit a target in flight at any height. Pointed at the ground it is the Heavy Tank Gun. ##### Surface-to-Air Missile SAM, air defence missile
Standard 7 3 Extreme 4
800000 Military 1955 Blast Lock-On, Tracking, Interceptable, Crew 4, Limited Ammo 4
A radar- or heat-guided missile on a trailer, a tracked launcher, or a ship. It attacks only targets in flight. The shoulder-fired version is the Guided Missile Launcher in *The Modern Armory*.
##### Vehicle Missile Launcher Vehicle Missile Launcher Tube-launched missile, tank destroyer rack
Standard 8 2 Extreme 2
250000 Military 1965 Blast Pierce 5, Lock-On, Interceptable, Limited Ammo 2, Slow-Firing 1
Heavy anti-tank missiles on a vehicle or a helicopter. They outrange a tank's gun, and the launcher must stay exposed while they fly.