# Qualities
*The Heavy Armory, Siege Engines, Great Guns, and Vehicle Weapons for Exodus NDS. Source: https://exodusnds.com/sourcebooks/heavy-armory/qualities*
**Passive** qualities are always on. **Active** qualities are triggered by spending Boons from a successful attack. **Ranked** qualities carry a number. **Drawback** qualities make the weapon worse and are not optional.
## Core Qualities Used in This Book
| Quality | Ranked | In brief |
|:--|:--:|:--|
| **Accurate** | Yes | Add X Boon Dice to attacks |
| **Auto-Fire** | No | Add 1 Trial Die to the attack. On a hit, spend 2 Boons per extra hit, on the original target or another within Short range of it |
| **Blast** | Yes | Spend 2 Boons to deal X damage to others near the target. At vehicle scale, see Chapter 4 |
| **Burn** | Yes | Spend 2 Boons: ongoing damage each round. At vehicle scale, see Chapter 3 |
| **Inaccurate** | Yes | Add X Bane Dice to attacks |
| **Limited Ammo** | Yes | X shots before it must be reloaded or replaced |
| **Linked** | Yes | After a hit, spend 2 Boons per extra hit on the same target, up to X times |
| **Pierce** | Yes | Ignore X points of Armor, or of Resistance at personal scale |
| **Slow-Firing** | Yes | After firing, the weapon cannot fire for X rounds |
| **Vicious** | Yes | Add +X to Critical Injury rolls caused by the weapon |
## Qualities Given in Full
### Anti-Air
Passive
The weapon is built to hit aircraft. It does not add the 2 Bane Dice for attacking a target in flight, and it halves the Bane Dice for attacking a smaller target, rounding down.
### Backblast X
Passive
Ranked
Drawback
First published in *The Modern Armory*. When the weapon fires, every character Engaged with the firer and behind the weapon suffers X damage, reduced by Resistance. Fired from inside a room or a vehicle, the firer suffers it too.
### Breach X
Passive
Ranked
A quality of personal-scale weapons built to defeat armour. Against a vehicle or a structure, multiply the weapon's damage and Successes by X and divide by 10 for its Hull damage, and ignore X points of the target's Armor. Against a person the weapon deals its printed damage. No weapon has both Breach and Siege. See Chapter 4.
### Crew X
Passive
Ranked
Drawback
The weapon needs X people to work it. Each person short adds 1 Bane Die to attacks and 1 to its Slow-Firing rating. With fewer than half, rounded up, it cannot be fired. See Chapter 3. This text replaces the shorter versions in *The Ranged Armory* and *The Black Powder Armory* when this book is in use.
### Emplaced
Passive
Drawback
The weapon is on a mount or a carriage. It cannot be moved and fired in the same round, and it prints no Encumbrance.
### Guided X
Passive
Ranked
As in *The Modern Armory*. Remove X Trial Dice from the attack pool, to a minimum of none. A guided weapon needs a target it can track.
### Indirect
Passive
The weapon fires in a high arc, over cover and beyond sight, with a spotter. It cannot attack closer than the first band of its Range, and it cannot hit a target in flight. See Chapter 3. The stone-throwing engines of *The Ranged Armory*, which carry Arcing, are Indirect when this book is in use.
### Interceptable
Passive
Drawback
After the attack hits and before damage, the target may use point defence against it.
### Lock-On
Passive
Drawback
The weapon needs a lock on its target before it fires. Taking one is a maneuver. See Countermeasures in Chapter 3.
### Point Defense X
Passive
Ranked
The weapon may fire as a reaction, once a round, when an Interceptable attack hits its own vehicle or another within Short range. It destroys up to X of them with no check.
### Prepare X
Passive
Ranked
Drawback
After it is moved, the weapon needs X maneuvers before it can fire. The crew may share them. On a placed charge, it is the maneuvers needed to set it.
### Salvo X
Passive
Ranked
The launcher may fire up to X rounds or ripples at one target with one action. Roll each attack separately.
### Siege X
Passive
Ranked
A quality of personal-scale weapons that deal mass damage, first published in *The Ranged Armory*. Multiply the weapon's damage and Successes by X. Against a person that is its damage. Against a vehicle or a structure, divide by 10 for its Hull damage, which is then reduced by Armor. See Chapter 4.
### Sustained Fire
Active
With an action, the gunner covers a zone: a point within range and everything Engaged with it. Until the start of the gunner's next turn, the gunner makes one attack check, without Auto-Fire, and applies it to each character who starts a turn in the zone or enters it while not in cover. Characters who stay behind cover and do not attack are not affected.
### Tracking
Passive
A round that misses attacks once more at the end of the next round, at 1 less damage.
### Tractor X
Passive
Ranked
On a hit the target is held. It cannot move away unless its pilot succeeds on an Operate check, as an action, against a difficulty of X.
### Unreliable
Passive
Drawback
As in *The Black Powder Armory*. If the attack generates 2 or more Bane or a Calamity, the weapon misfires. It cannot fire until a crew member spends an action clearing it.
