# Kinetic Weapons *The Starship Armory, Vehicle and Starship Weapons for Exodus NDS. Source: https://exodusnds.com/sourcebooks/starship-armory/kinetic-weapons* Weapons that throw something solid: shells, slugs, and fragments. Their damage type is **Ballistic**. | | | |:--|:--| | **Strength** | Screens do nothing. Low Heat and Power. Long reach at the heavy end | | **Weakness** | Magazines. Armor stops them in full, less Pierce | | **Stopped by** | Armor, and the rare gravitic deflection field | **Ammunition.** Every kinetic weapon has **Limited Ammo**. Chapter 3 has reload weights and costs. **Ground weapons** in this chapter are marked **Ground**.

##### Pintle Gun Door gun, cupola gun, anti-personnel mount

Light 12 — 3 Long 0 0

2500 Restricted Ballistic Personal Scale, Auto-Fire, Pierce 1, Limited Ammo 10

A heavy machine gun on a ring or a pintle, fitted to trucks, skiffs, and the hatches of larger vehicles. **Personal Scale**: its damage of 12 is at personal scale, so it is deadly to people and scratches nothing with Armor. It takes no hardpoint on a vehicle of Scale 2 or more. ##### Light Rotary Cannon Rotary, chain gun, point-defence gun

Light 3 — 4 Short to Medium 1 1

6000 Common Ballistic Auto-Fire, Point Defense 1, Recoil, Limited Ammo 40

A multi-barrelled cannon firing a stream of small shells. It is the commonest ship weapon there is, because it is cheap, runs cool, and shoots down missiles. **Recoil** matters only to small craft: on a hull of Scale 4 or more, ignore it. ##### Autocannon Assault cannon, strafing gun, 30-mil

Light 4 — 4 Short to Medium 1 1

9000 Restricted Ballistic Pierce 1, Recoil, Limited Ammo 20

A single-barrelled cannon firing heavier shells more slowly. It gives up the rotary's rate of fire and its point-defence role for a shell that gets through light armour. The usual main gun of an armoured car, a gunship, or a strike fighter. ##### Flak Cannon Burst cannon, proximity gun, scattergun

Standard 4 — 5 Short 1 1

14000 Common Ballistic Scatter, Anti-Fighter, Point Defense 2, Limited Ammo 24

Fires shells that burst into a cloud of fragments. Against anything with Armor 3 or more it deals 2 Hull. Against missiles, drones, and unarmoured craft of Scale 1 or 2 it deals 6: that is **Anti-Fighter**. Freighter captains fit it first. ##### Railgun Battery Rail battery, coilgun, linear accelerator

Standard 5 — 3 Medium to Long 1 2

22000 Restricted Ballistic Pierce 1, Recoil, Limited Ammo 16

A magnetic accelerator throwing a solid slug. It has no warhead and needs none. It reaches farther than any other Standard weapon and screens do nothing about it. ##### Tank Gun Main gun, hull cannon, smoothbore

Standard 6 — 3 Medium to Long 1 1

30000 Military Ballistic Ground, Pierce 2, Blast 2, Slow-Firing 1, Limited Ammo 30

The turret gun of an armoured ground vehicle, firing shaped-charge or long-rod shells. **Slow-Firing 1** is the loader; an autoloader removes it for 10,000 more. **Ground**: it is built for a planet's surface and cannot be fitted to a spacecraft. ##### Siege Howitzer Field piece, self-propelled gun, heavy mortar

Heavy 8 — 4 Long to Extreme 1 1

60000 Military Ballistic Ground, Indirect, Blast 5, Inaccurate 1, Slow-Firing 1, Limited Ammo 20

Artillery on tracks or repulsors. **Indirect**: it fires over hills and walls at a target a spotter can see. It cannot attack inside Long range, and it cannot hit anything that is flying. ##### Heavy Mass Driver Spinal driver, slugthrower, hull-cracker

Heavy 9 — 3 Medium to Long 2 2

90000 Military Ballistic Pierce 2, Armor Breaker, Recoil, Slow-Firing 1, Limited Ammo 8

A long accelerator firing a slug the size of a ground car. It is usually fixed forward along the keel. **Armor Breaker**: damage left over after Armor is beaten spills into systems. **Slow-Firing 1** is the reload; a crew member's Reload action, or 2 Boons from the attack, readies it at once. ##### Capital Mass Driver Keel gun, planetary driver, the long gun

Capital 16 — 3 Long to Extreme 2 3

450000 Military Ballistic Pierce 3, Armor Breaker, Recoil, Slow-Firing 2, Signature Bloom 2, Limited Ammo 4

The main armament of a kinetic-doctrine warship. A single hit disables most ships of Scale 4 or less. Its four rounds come from naval depots and nowhere else, and firing it lights the ship up for every sensor in the system.