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Mech Weaponry

This is the list of what I've created. Feel free to think up anything else, but it needs my approval before its added.


Slug Thrower: This type of gun fires a solid slug as the name implies. In general, there are three types. Shredder, AP, and HE.
-Shredder rounds are designed to expand and fragment when they hit organic material. While generally not useful in Mech weaponry, have the side affect of splintering within the target Mech's armor, destroying hydraulics, wiring, and whatever else comes in between.
-Armor Piercing (AP) rounds, as implied by the name, are made to penetrate the thickest of armors. While they can punch cleanly through joints and full armor plates, they lack the punch to do any larger damage. They usually are used for sniping out specific points on the target Mech.
-High Explosive (HE) rounds, as implied, explode on contact to cause their damage. They can tear apart light armor and are good for anti-aircraft, but the heat and odd electrical output of most of the shells allow for them being used for scrambling the enemy's electronics.

They can be fired mid to mid-long range, and have a moderate rate of fire. Overall, they are the most balanced type of Mech gun.


Charged Bolt Cannon: CBC weapons use tech similar to Slug Throwers in that they fire a solid round of ammunition to fit a variety of purposes. In essence, they use various chemical mixtures of standard chemicals and chemicals infected with the N-33 strain to create "Elemental Bullets." Nearly all of the "prime" elements (water, earth, fire, wind, electricity) have been converted into Charged Bolts, allowing for a massively wide range of combined shots. They have mid-short to mid-long range, and are fired at a slightly slower rate than ST rounds.

They may NOT be used in the same gun as any type of ST ammunition.


Plasma Weaponry: Plasma weapons superheat particles of water into a super condensed, incredibly hot tool. Plasma weapons can fire in two general modes:
-Wad: It fires a compressed orb of plasma, launching it mid-short to mid range. The heat and energy of the shot can blast through most armor, and is known to burn cleanly through hillsides.
-Jet: This essentially is a flame thrower on a massive scale. The Plasma is allowed to rapidly expand as it is launched, creating a spray of the superheated energy. It fires at short range, used primarily as an anti-infantry or last ditch weapon. It has a tendency to create lingering walls of flame wherever it touches down, making a useful tool in creating distractions.

All plasma weaponry has a downside, however. When using a plasma weapon, you will roll (in your post) 1 D6 for the jet shot and 2D6 for Wad shots. For the jet, if you roll a 1, your plasma weapon overheats and damages itself. For the Wad shots, if you roll a 1 or 2, your gun overheats and damages itself. In both instances, the shot is still fired.

Plasma weapons have a moderate-slow rate of fire and middle range.

Laser Weaponry: Laser weapons have become very commonplace in current Mech design. They allow a very wide range of uses, and have the durability to last through multiple conflicts.
-Multilaser: Effectively a series of generators rotating around a fixed point with only one generator lining up with the focusing barrel at a time. It has a very high rate of fire and shoots up to mid-long range, but it is relatively weak.
-Lascannon: This laser weapon is comprised of a single, large beam generator mounted to a single heavy focusing barrel. Due to the power draw of the generator, it fires at a fairly low rate of fire but has Long range. It is also an incredibly powerful shot but is easy to avoid due to the long time required to charge and fire it.
-Lasblade: This weapon is mounted directly to the arm or body of a Mech, and it creates a short burst of laser energy capable of cutting through light to moderate armor. It has very short range, and it can be used multiple times in quick succession before requiring a cool down phase.
-Sniper Laser: As the name states, this laser is meant for sniping. It fires a very thin, high powered laser over a Very Long range, and it has enough strength to punch through all armor types. Its biggest drawbacks are the length of the focusing barrel, the slow rate of fire, and the necessity of being immobile to fire it.

All Laser weapons require a power module separate from the gun. The power module must be contained within or on the mech.


Particle Weaponry Particle weapons use large generators and power cells to create controlled nuclear reactions within the weapons. That reaction is converted into a blast of energy, creating very powerful weapons.

-Particle Cannon: This weapon uses the nuclear energy to release a massive blast of energy, firing at Mid to Mid-Long range. The very force of the shot is enough to rip all light and most moderately armored Mechs to pieces, and severely damage the rest. Particle Cannons have an incredibly slow rate of fire, and require a long cool-down period every three shots.

-Particle Whip: This weapons was created in a bit of an accident. While attempting to use magnetic fields to direct the effects of a Particle Cannon shot, the Particle energy condensed around a pulse of magnetic energy, forming into a crackling neon-green whip that seemed to dance from one target to the next. Particle Whips have to be fired at their first target within mid-short to mid range. Once the Particle Whip hits, it creates a bit of damage before leaping to the next object with a magnetic signature, be it another Mech, a metal building, or even a large supply of ore. Particle Whips have an slow rate of fire, and require a moderate cool-down period every three shots.

All Particle weapons, due to the nature of the controlled nuclear reaction, have a bit of inherent danger involved in them. When you fire one, roll 3D6. On a total of less than six, the weapon is severely damaged along with the Mech.


Missile Weaponry: Missiles have long been a staple of Mech combat. They all share a common principle, yet the types of missiles and their means of implementation vary a good deal.

The main types of missile guidances are as follows:
Dumb: The missile flies in a predetermined path with no form of external guidance.
Heat seeking: These missiles follow large sources of heat, tracing in until they make the target go cold.
Wire Guided: These missiles are guided by the mech pilot or an in-unit computer. While very guidable, they respond slowly which makes them fairly easy to dodge.

Missile Pod firing rules are as follows:
In a missile pod, only Dumb missiles may be fired en masse per pod (more than 10 at a time). Heat seeking may be fired 5 at a time per pod, and Wire Guided can only be fired 2 at a time per pod, due to the necessity for control.

Missile Launcher firing rules are as follows:
The launchers fire missiles one at a time, but they fire at a much higher velocity, making them more dangerous than pod missiles.

Missile Types:
-HEAT Missile: HEAT (High Energy Anti Transport) missiles explode on contact for massive amounts of damage against Mechs and Vehicles. They are either Dumb or Wire Guided.
-Krak Missile: Krak missiles are made to create a big explosion, but not as much as an armor killer. They expand rapidly on explosion, creating massive clouds of debris and rubble. They can be Dumb, Wire Guided, or Heat Seeking.
-Melta Missiles: These missiles utilize an offshoot of plasma technology that essentially turns the missile into a lance of plasma energy once fired. They work incredibly well for anti-mech/vehicle, and can annihilate even the most armored mechs easily. However, due to the odd technology involved, the Missiles are only Dumb launch compatable.


Grenades
Note: All of the following grenades can be implemented into Dumb guidance rockets, generally carried by people (also available to Mechs) Or used in Mortars. Enjoy.

Anti-Mech/Transport EMPs –
These are grenades/missiles which, upon detonation, release an extremely concentrated surge of electromagnetic energy, rendering all electrically reliant contraptions unable to function until repaired.

Anti-Personnel Incendiaries –
These are the grenades/missiles which show you the need for that satisfying “floosh” gained from searing flesh. Once detonated, an intense inferno envelopes the immediate area (usually gained from a volatile chemical reaction).

Anti-Personnel Shrapnel Explosives –
These are grenades/missiles which, once detonated, release high-velocity metal fragments that can easily tear through any soft, organic material (i.e. the supple flesh of the run-of-the-mill man/woman).

((More to come?))

Mech Classes

Stormchaser: Moderately armored Mechs with focus on capture of other Mechs/vehicles. Specialty in EMP launcher weapons.

Sandriders: Speed Freaks. Light-Moderate armored Mechs with a focus in Light Laser weaponry (Multilasers, Lasblades, etc.).

Raider: This is the most common type of Mech class, consisting of sturdy armor and capabilities to carry all weapon types.

Havok: Heavily armored and slow moving midrange Mechs that are traditionally outfitted with Particle weapons.

Gunboat: Light armor and very, very heavy weapons. Specialty in multiple missile pods.

Fareye: Moderate armor with specialty in Sniper Lasers and Long Barreled ST rifles.

Foxbat: Heavily armored close range specialist Mechs.

((Again, feel free to make up anything else and just make sure that you get my clearance.))

Gaia Name: Zerg_Rush
Character Name: Logan "Og" Denube
Age: 32
Height: 5'4"
Weight: 180 lbs
Appearance: Logan
Weapons: Multilaser (30 'shots' before recharge)
Bio-enhancements: None yet.
History: Born into an average family sometime after the virus was released, Logan's father became a mech pilot for some time after his birth. When Logan was 12 though, he had heard of dreadful news, that his father was killed during a raid on Corporal Water supplies. Disgusted at the fate that befell his father, he at first said he wouldn't become a mech pilot. He stayed this way until he was 19, when he found the very mech used by his old man, which was actually safe in a corporation facility. Infuriated moreso at the corp then his family, he stole it and ran off, intended to make sure the corporation falls. *Cheesy but it works :/*



Mech Commander: Zerg_Rush / Logan Denube
Mech Name: Draeval (Original Military Name: Lobos) << Just to bring back memories :3*
Mech Class: Fareye
Mech Appearance: Draeval
Mech Weapons: Has a Sniper Laser mounted just behind the top of the head, and a Melta Missile launcher near the center of its back, and a multilaser gun in the 'jaw'. The generators are near the middle of the Mech.
Signature Ability: One of the adjustments Logan made onto the mech was Four glass plates, two at the front leg shoulders and two at the front leg knees. At different points on the bottom of the head are four laser cannons. He can take the shot from his sniper laser and channel it through various pipes in the mech, shooting it out through those machines as they reflect off the glass. This allows him to hit the target at different points and increase the chance of hitting a needed part.
Mech History (Optional):

Gaia Name: Desdemona13
Character Name: Chrysanthemum Delphinium 'CD' or 'Chrys' MacLeannan
Age: 23
Height: 6'2 1/2"
Weight: 200 lbs
Appearance: CD
Her sunglasses are sometimes tucked up in her hair, holding it back if she doesn't have it in a pony tail or a braid or something similar holding it up out of her face. CD's eyes tend to shift color a lot, though the hue doesn't necessarily tell her mood like a mood ring will. She knows what the color change means, but isn't big on talking much about it. She wears a lot of tank tops and sleeveless shirts, usually in darker colors. These show off the tattoo she has on her right shoulder, and the long scar one her left arm that stretches from her shoulder blade to the second knuckle of her middle finger. Jeans or cargo pants are her bottoms of choice, and many have rips or tears and patches, but are all very clean. She wears boots all the time, usually very clunky masculine ones, and sometimes fingerless gloves on her hands and wrist guards.
Weapons: Usually one of her kitchen knives or a wrench -large wrench-, failing that usually just her fists. CD isn't big on using guns or anything similar, and only will if she's forced to.
Bio-enhancements: Twelve inches of her lower spine was replaced with cybernetic parts, the result of having something heavy dropped on her back when she was younger. The prosthetic spinal chord extends all the way up to the back of her head and connects directly to her brain. It's made her reflexes slightly faster then normal, but also left some irrepairable damage to her behavior and movements. Both of her inner ears have been replaced because CD was born clinically deaf. Her earrings are part of her external enhanced hearing and let her pick up frequencies to high and to low for normal human ears. They also allow for some hacking of encrypted messages, and let her eves drop on conversations. But she lets people think that they're just earrings.
History: A self taught cook and well trained medic, CD, despite her strengths, has issues with social situations due to an almost fatal accident when she was a teenager. Her back was broken by a heavy chain falling on it from her fathers heavy duty mechanics shop. Twelve inches were replaced, and she was able to walk again. But the surgery and bio-enhancement messed with her brain a little, leaving a distrust of most of humanity and a slight twitch that she learned to hide over time. She also was left with the habit of talking to herself and inanimate objects that can't answer back, even when there are other people around. Joining up with the Crimson Wolves for her own reasons, using the excuse that they needed a functioning medic and someone who could cook things that didn't come out of a package, CD keeps most of her personal history to herself, behind carefully constructed walls and shields meant to keep others out.

Pretty much done.

Crawler Pilot/Explosives/Fine Detail Electronics and Mechanics: Sergei Balder
Head Mechanic: Valco Ansgar
Chef/Medic: Chrys MacLeannan
((You need a crew job aside from just being a merc. Be creative.))