Thermal Shok Launcher
General Information
| Thermal Shok Launcher | ||||||||||||||
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| Size (h x w) |
2 x 2 | 
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| Weight | 8 | |||||||||||||
| D. Threshold | 20 | |||||||||||||
| Sale Price | $120,000 | |||||||||||||
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| Grip | Two-Handed | |||||||||||||
| TU Cost | Accuracy | |||||||||||||
| Auto | -% | -% | ||||||||||||
| Snapshot | 50% | 70% | ||||||||||||
| Aimed | 70% | 120% | ||||||||||||
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| Thermal Shok Bomb | ||||||||||||||
| Size (h x w) |
1 x 1 | 
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| Weight | 3 | |||||||||||||
| D. Threshold | 60 | |||||||||||||
| Sale Price | $15,200 | |||||||||||||
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| Damage | 120 Freeze | |||||||||||||
| Capacity | 1 | |||||||||||||
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The aliens need humans for slaves, mutation, and genetic material. To this end, the aliens created the Thermal Shok Launcher. Firing a thermal bomb that radiates a powerful blast of cold, it is extremely effective against humans, able to reliably allow capture in a single shot by inducing severe hypothermia and a low-energy state in the target as the body reflexively attempts to survive.
Fortunately for us, it works just as well on them.
The Thermal Shok Launcher is a rather good replacement for the Thermal Tazer. Surpassing it in power, it's also much safer to stun someone with a ranged weapon rather than poke them with a stick. As damage is quadrupled on Large(2x2) units, it works quite well as a Terror unit-buster. It also has an impressive accuracy in both modes, making snapshots from this weapon still fairly accurate. A soldier armed with a Thermal Shok Launcher in each hand can fire both in one turn, provided he does nothing else; this combo can often drop even the toughest aliens you'll encounter.
This weapon appears in Terror from the Deep. For the UFO: Enemy Unknown equivalent, refer to the Small Launcher.
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