# Launchers and Flamethrowers *The Modern Armory, Firearms, Explosives, and Ammunition for Exodus NDS, 1939 to Today. Source: https://exodusnds.com/sourcebooks/modern-armory/launchers-and-flamethrowers* Weapons that deliver an explosion or a fire at a distance. Every entry is Military, every launcher is slow, and the damage is the highest in the book. Three rules apply across the chapter. **Breach is how a person on foot hurts a vehicle.** A launcher with Breach X deals its damage times X, divided by 10, as Hull damage, and ignores X points of Armor. Against a person it deals its printed damage. *The Heavy Armory* has the procedure. **Backblast X** is defined in Chapter 3. Rocket launchers vent behind the firer. **A near miss still explodes.** When an attack with a Blast weapon fails, the attacker may spend 3 Boons from the failed check to apply the Blast damage to the target and everyone Engaged with it. **Skill:** Gunnery. At tables using a single Ranged skill, use Ranged. ##### Grenade Launcher, Single-Shot M79, M203, GP-25, 37mm riot gun
8 4 Medium 3
Gunnery 700 Military Blast Blast 6, Limited Ammo 1
A break-open launcher firing a 40mm grenade, as a standalone weapon or slung under a rifle barrel. It throws a grenade to Medium range, which no arm can. **Limited Ammo 1**: it is reloaded after every shot. It fires any 40mm round in Chapter 16; the stat line assumes high explosive. ##### Grenade Launcher, Revolving Milkor MGL, China Lake pump launcher, RG-6
8 4 Long 5
Gunnery 2500 Military Blast Blast 6, Limited Ammo 6, Cumbersome 3
A six-chamber revolving launcher for 40mm grenades. Six shots at Long range before reloading. It needs Might 3 and weighs as much as a machine gun. ##### Rifle Grenade Energa, M9A1, Gewehrgranate, cup dischargers
8 4 Medium 1
Gunnery 60 Military Blast Blast 5, Limited Ammo 1, Prepare 1, Inaccurate 1
A grenade fired from the muzzle of an ordinary rifle, using a cup, a spigot, or a blank cartridge. It is the cheapest way to put an explosion at Medium range. **Prepare 1** covers fitting it, **Inaccurate 1** covers aiming a rifle at forty-five degrees by eye, and the rifle cannot fire bullets until the grenade is gone. ##### Disposable Rocket Launcher Panzerfaust, M72 LAW, AT4, RPG-18
12 3 Medium 3
Gunnery 800 Military Blast Blast 6, Pierce 4, Limited Ammo 1, Prepare 1, Backblast 4, Breach 2
A single anti-armour rocket in a tube that is thrown away after firing. One soldier carries it in addition to a rifle. Damage 12 with **Pierce 4** at Medium range, once. **Backblast 4**: anyone Engaged with the firer and behind the tube takes 4 damage, and so does the firer if the weapon is fired from inside a room or a vehicle. ##### Reloadable Rocket Launcher M1 Bazooka, Panzerschreck, RPG-7, Carl Gustaf
14 3 Long 6
Gunnery 2500 Military Blast Blast 6, Pierce 5, Cumbersome 3, Limited Ammo 1, Prepare 1, Backblast 4, Breach 3
A shoulder-fired tube that launches a rocket or recoilless round and can be loaded again. The bazooka, the Panzerschreck, and the RPG-7 are the same idea in three decades. Damage 14 with **Pierce 5** at Long range. It needs Might 3, **Prepare 1** to load, and it has **Backblast 4**. A second crew member who spends a maneuver loading removes the Prepare. ##### Guided Missile Launcher FIM-92 Stinger, FGM-148 Javelin, M47 Dragon, 9K32 Strela
18 2 Extreme 8
Gunnery 25000 Military Blast Blast 8, Pierce 6, Guided 3, Cumbersome 3, Limited Ammo 1, Prepare 2, Breach 3
A shoulder-fired missile that steers itself to an aircraft or a vehicle. Damage 18, Crit 2, Extreme range, **Pierce 6**, **Guided 3**. It is the highest damage in the book. **Prepare 2** covers acquiring the target; the missile will not launch at a person on foot. ##### Flamethrower M2 flamethrower, Flammenwerfer 35, LPO-50
8 4 Short 6
Gunnery 1500 Military Fire Burn 3, Blast 3, Cumbersome 3, Limited Ammo 5
A tank of thickened fuel, a tank of propellant, and a wand with an igniter. The damage is modest. **Burn 3** is the weapon: spend 2 Boons and the target suffers 3 Wounds at the start of each of its turns until someone spends an action putting it out. **Blast 3** catches those standing with the target. It needs Might 3 and holds five bursts. On a Calamity, the GM may rupture a hose: the wearer suffers the weapon's Burn.