Heavy Cannon

While the regulation pistols and rifles provide adequate firepower against most soft targets, they lack the strength to punch through the thick armour introduced by a number of early terrorist units, like the cyberdisc and chryssalid. Enter the cannons - the Heavy Cannon and the Auto Cannon - two highly versatile hand carried cannons with a selection of shells tipped with armour piercing, high explosive or incendiary warheads. Their versatile ammunition allows their user to switch strategies in the middle of the field by simply feeding a different ammunition clip into the cannon.

The heavy cannon is heavy as its namesake and lacks the speed of the smaller firearms. It makes up for this by being very powerful. The biggest detriment to the heavy cannon is its low capacity ammunition cartridge. It can only carry 6 shells at a time.

The Heavy Cannon also lacks an automatic firing mode, however it continues to remain more powerful and much more accurate than its weaker but ultimately more popular cousin, the Auto Cannon.

One excellent strategy with both Heavy and Auto Cannon is to wear Power Suits and arm these weapons with HE shells. As long as you don't get a direct hit from one of your own shells, you will feel absolutely no damage whatsoever when using these weapons in short range combat. This is an excellent combination in any indoor setting such as UFOs or even enemy installations.

See also: Auto Cannon

Weapon Vital Statistics

Heavy Cannon

• Firing Cost and Accuracy:
  • Auto: N/A
  • Snap: 33% TUs, 60%
  • Aimed: 80% TUs, 90%

• Size: 3 high x 2 wide
• Weight: 18

• Buy Price: $6,400
• Sell Price: $4,800
• Cannot be manufactured

Ammo Vital Statistics

HC-AP, HC-HE and HC-Incendiary shells

• Type: Armour Piercing, High Explosive, Incendiary
• Stopping Power: AP 56, HE 52, IN 60
• Size: 1 high x 2 wide
• Capacity: 6
• Weight: 6

• Buy Price: AP $300, HE $500, IN $400
• Sell Price: AP $225, HE $275, IN $300
• Cannot be manufactured

Usage Notes

The following lists how many times a soldier can fire the gun by shot type continuously in any given round and the remaining percentage of any left over TUs that cannot be spent as a shot.

• Aimed: 1 Shot, 20% Remaining TUs
• Snap: 3 Shots, 1% Remaining TUs
• Auto: n/a, n/a