Vehicle Weapons (Apocalypse)

Bullets, Beams, Bombs ...and big booms!

Armaments: Road And Air

A fighting vehicle should have a strong offense to quickly destroy any threat. The longer the time of an engagement, the more opportunity for a hostile to return fire. Select the best weapon for the chassis when matched with the best engine. Weight of the weapons will influence the final acceleration value.

Weapon: Rearm / Reload

Ammunition is loaded to full capacity when a weapon is first placed into a suitable slot and will be reloaded/rearmed automatically if possible when returning from a battle.

• If no ammuntion is available to rearm or there has been only a partially reload, a message (if enabled) will inform the player of "not enough ammo to rearm vehicle", for each vehicle affected.
• When installing weapons in the vehicle-equip screen, if the ammuntion for the weapon has 'run out', any weapon yet to be mounted will have an dark-orange-box outline.
• Forced reloads are possible by LMB clicking on any mounted weapon which needs more ammunition. (don't LMB-hold, just perform a quick LMB click)
• If suitable ammunition is stored at multiple X-Com bases, a vehicle can be given a destination to land/park at a nearby base and if using a forced reload, it can return to battle immediately (without having to traverse long distance to a home base for rearmament).
• If no other bases have spare ammo or fuel, allow the vehicle to return to their home base.
• Automatic reloads are timed to complete at five minute intervals for each vehicle irrelevant of ammunition capacity. Eg: ten vehicles will need fifty minutes to reload weapons.

Tedious List

• Vehicles shown within the Vehicle Equip Screen cannot be multiple-selected as with agents within their screen when using the CTRL-LMB method. Each vehicle can only be acessed individually.
• The list of vehicles shown cannot be changed unless selling the 'out-of-order' vehicle and getting another. This re-bought vehicle may appear at the bottom of the list or back in the exact same position. Renaming vehicles does not solve this design error.

Chart Definitions

Weight
Ammunition is weightless. A vehicle will not become lighter if has run out of ammo.
Accuracy
A percentage chance of an unguided weapon being aimed directly at the target (its current position) when fired. An successful impact will depend on the maneuvers of the target and speed of the projectile. No weapons are aimed as to lead the target.
Range
A projectile's active-time measured in metres (m).
Speed
A projectile will only be active until its maximum range has been reached. A fast projectile will expire sooner than a slow one if they have the same range value.
Tracking Turn Rate
Guided projectiles will turn at n° per second. The higher the rate, the sharper the turn.
eg: A tracking turn rate of 96 will allow a missile to turn in a circle smaller than a launch tube.
Firing Arc
Projectiles will exit the vehicle in certain locations. The ejection location is determined from the centerline of the vehicle in top view and simultaneously from the side view.
eg: 90° = a maximum firing spread of 45° left/right and up/down from the centerline of the vehicle.

Weapons: AIR

Image	Name	Size	Weight	Accuracy (%)	Damage	Range (m)a	Fire Rate (s)b	Speed	Guidedc	Tracking Turn Rate	Ammo	Base Price Weapon / Ammo	Firing Arcd
	Bolter 4000 Laser Gun	1x3	50	55	12	200	3.0	38	no	N/A	Recharges	1000 / 0	90
	Lancer 7000 Laser Gun	1x4	80	60	16	300	3.0	38	no	N/A	Recharges	1500 / 0	90
	Rendor Plasma Gun	1x2	70	64	20	250	3.0	38	no	N/A	140 Elerium-115	2500 / 20	90
	Lineage Plasma Cannon	1x3	95	66	25	400	3.0	38	no	N/A	110 Elerium-115	6000 / 20	90
	Plasma Multi-System	2x2	65	62	14	175	6.0	38	no	N/A	90 Elerium-115	5000 / 20	180
	Light Disruptor Beam	2x2	50	50	20	150	2.4	28	no	N/A	Recharges	5600 / 0	180
	Medium Disruptor Beam	2x3	90	60	40	300	2.12	30	no	N/A	Recharges	10500 / 0	180
	Heavy Disruptor Beam	4x4	130	70	80	600	1.8	32	no	N/A	Recharges	20500 / 0	180
	40mm Auto Cannon	1x2	60	70	10	175	6.0	20	no	N/A	300 Multi-Cannon Round	500 / 5	90
	Janitor Missile Array	1x3	70	76	22	250	1.0	16	yes	24	24 Janitor Missile	1200 / 110	135
	Justice Missile Launcher	1x3	80	74	50	1000	0.51	10	yes	12	1 Justice Missile	800 / 330	135
	Prophet Missile Array	1x3	70	76	26	350	0.86	18	yes	32	8 Prophet Missile	1500 / 200	270
	Retribution Missile Launcher	1x4	55	78	68	1150	0.4	10	yes	10	1 Retribution Missile	1100 / 420	135
	Disruptor Bomb Launcher	2x3	120	82	94	450	0.4	16	yes	34	32 Disruptor Bomb	7000 / 3500	270d
	Stasis Bomb Launcher	2x4	130	80	0e	250	0.4	24	yes	34	5 Stasis Bomb	4760 / 2650	270d
	Disruptor Multi-Bomb Launcher	2x4	180	84	98/65f	250	0.3	12	yes	24	12 Disruptor Multi-Bomb	9260 / 4230	270d
	Laser Defense Array	2x2	50	88	8	64	9.0	38	no	N/A	Recharges	1700 / 0	360
	Plasma Defense Array	2x2	45	92	12	84	9.0	38	no	N/A	Recharges	2300 0	360

Weapons: ROAD

Image	Name	Size	Weight	Accuracy (%)	Damage	Range (m)a	Fire Rate (s)b	Projectile Speed	Guidedc	Tracking Turn Rate	Ammo	Base Price Weapon / Ammo	Firing Arc
	40mm Auto Cannon Turret	2x2	20	70	14	150	6.0	20	no	N/A	500 40mm Cannon	300 / 6	360
	Airguard Anti-Air Cannon	2x2	25	72	16	180	2.0	15	no	N/A	600 52mm Cannon	400 / 8	360
	GLM Array	2x2	30	76	26	225	1.50	16	yes	12	12 Ground Launched Missile	600 / 100	360
	Plasma Turret Cannon	4x4	140	85	30	400	4.50	38	no	N/A	130 Elerium-115	1800 / 20	360
	GLM Air Defense	4x4	140	75	28	325	1.06	17	yes	14	16 Air Defense Missile	2100 / 180	360
	Rumble Cannon	4x4	140	75	34	250	5.14	20	no	N/A	Recharges	1000 / 0	90

a Divide value by 16 to get in-game cell distance.
b Visible projectile production is calculated as: Fire Rate = {(36 × frame rate per second) ÷ weapon's fire delay}
c A guilded projectile can be jammed or may lose tracking against a cloaked target.
d All UFOs fire missiles from the rear of the craft.
e Immobilises a target only and does no damage.
f Second value is damage of each bomblet once main projectile has split.

See Also

• Vehicles
• Vehicle Engines
• Vehicle Equipment
• Alien Ships