Hover Chassis

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Hover Chassis HWP's

General Information

Statistics

Time Units	100
Health	90
Energy	100
Firing Accuracy	70
Reactions	30

Armour

Facing	Protection
Front	130
Left/Right	130
Rear	130
Under	100

Variants

Hovertank/Laser

Cost/Manufacture: $800,000, 20 Alien Alloys, 20 Elerium, 1400 Engineering Hours

Standard template Hovertank. Equipped with a Laser Cannon of identical firepower compared to its predecessor. With superior armour and better accuracy, retention of a 3-shot auto-fire mode, this platform is almost virtually an upgrade to its tracked predecessor

Laser Information
Type	Laser Bream
Damage	110
Ammunition	255
Aimed Shot	66% (75% TU)
Snap Shot	42% (33% TU)
Auto Shot	XX% (50% TU)

Hovertank/Elerium Bomb

Cost/Manufacture: $830,000, 24 Alien Alloys, 20 Elerium 1400 Engineering Hours

In spite of what its Small Launcher weapon lineage would suggest, this weapon is a direct fire weapon akin to the Tank/Cannon. This weapon is essentially an automatic Alien Grenade launcher.

In spite of its impressive firepower, it will struggle to dispatch the upper echelon alien forces you will be typically be facing by the time X-COM can manufacture this. Nonetheless it possess excellent terrain clearing capabilities, and against less armoured hostile targets it can still prove effective.

Its auto-fire mode is limited to firing two rounds per use.

Elerium Bomb Turret Information
Type	Elerium Bomb
Damage	90 (HE)
Ammunition	16
Aimed Shot	84% (70% TU)
Snap Shot	63% (30% TU)
Auto Shot	42% (45% TU)

Hovertank/Plasma

Cost/Manufacture: $860,000, 20 Alien Alloys, 30 Elerium 1600 Engineering Hours

Taking concepts learned from alien UFO weapons system, the Plasma turret variant is the direct upgrade to the Laser cannon variant. Better accuracy, slightly higher damage, and a 4-fire auto-shot mode.. Aside from this, it represents only a minor improvement to the Laser cannon variant.

Nonetheless it represents the most readily available and effective form of HWP that X-COM can manufacture, whereas the more esoteric Walker Chassis requires the extreme effort of capturing a live armoured sectopod, this variant just needs some basic materials and funds.

Plasma Turret Information
Type	Plasma Bolt
Damage	115
Ammunition	255
Aimed Shot	70% (60% TU)
Snap Shot	59% (30% TU)
Auto Shot	49% (45% TU)

Hovertank/Launcher

Cost/Manufacture: $900,000, 24 Alien Alloys, 30 Elerium 1600 Engineering Hours

A pure fire support platform. Loaded with an eight round magazine of fusion bombs. Compared to the vanilla variant, these fusion bombs are functionally identical in damage output to blaster bombs, an impressive 200 damage.

This platform eschews the nominal scouting/frontline role of the HWP for a pure rear-line support role. Its ability to hold up to eight blaster bombs at a time, that are also economical to manufacture (1 blaster bomb is converted into a 8 HWP fusion bomb magazine), can grant X-COM the ability to heavily exploit the power of the blaster bomb en mass.

Be wary that its limited ammo supplies means over judicious usage of it in the field can leave it dry of ammo.

Of course, you could be using four soldiers with four blaster launchers in lieu of this.

Launcher Turret Information
Type	Fusion Bomb
Damage	200 (HE)
Ammunition	8
Launch Missile	70% (66% TU)