The Heavy Armory ยท Chapter 13
Vehicles, Ships, and Aircraft
Forty-one things to shoot at, and to shoot from. They use the vehicle statistics of the core rules. A Universe with its own vehicles uses those.
Armor is at vehicle scale: 1 point is 10 points of Resistance.
Big ships are built to last. From Scale 6 up, Hull and System Points are about double what smaller hulls would suggest. Several small ships attacking together can still hurt a large one: its Armor is modest, and each attacker after the first adds 1 Boon Die against a larger target, to a maximum of 3.
Weapons name entries in this book. "A side" means a battery firing on one broadside.
Land
| Vehicle | Scale | Speed | Handling | Armor | Def | Hull | Sys | Crew | From | Typical weapons |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cart or wagon | 2 | 1 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 1 | Ancient | None |
| War wagon | 3 | 1 | -2 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 8 | Ancient | Organ Gun, or a wall crossbow from The Ranged Armory |
| Siege tower | 5 | 1 | -4 | 1 | 0 | 24 | 8 | 40 | Ancient | A drawbridge. Archers on top have heavy cover |
| Motor car | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 1900 | None |
| Truck | 3 | 2 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 1910 | Tripod or Heavy Machine Gun on a ring |
| Armoured car | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 1914 | Quick-Firing Gun or Automatic Cannon |
| Early tank | 3 | 1 | -2 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 8 | 8 | 1916 | Two Quick-Firing Guns, Tripod Machine Guns |
| Half-track or personnel carrier | 3 | 2 | -1 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 9 | 2 | 1939 | Heavy Machine Gun |
| Light tank | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 10 | 3 | 1939 | Light Tank Gun, machine gun |
| Medium tank | 3 | 2 | -1 | 4 | 0 | 16 | 10 | 5 | 1941 | Medium Tank Gun, two machine guns |
| Heavy tank | 4 | 2 | -2 | 6 | 0 | 22 | 11 | 5 | 1942 | Heavy Tank Gun, two machine guns |
| Tank destroyer | 3 | 2 | -1 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 9 | 4 | 1942 | Heavy Tank Gun, fixed forward |
| Self-propelled howitzer | 4 | 2 | -2 | 2 | 0 | 18 | 10 | 5 | 1942 | Light Howitzer or Heavy Howitzer |
| Infantry fighting vehicle | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 16 | 11 | 3 | 1967 | Automatic Cannon, Vehicle Missile Launcher |
| Main battle tank | 4 | 3 | -1 | 7 | 1 | 22 | 12 | 4 | 1960 | Main Battle Tank Gun, Heavy Machine Gun, machine gun |
A tank's Armor is its front. Against its sides, use 1 less. Against its rear or top, use 2 less.
Sea
| Vehicle | Scale | Speed | Handling | Armor | Def | Hull | Sys | Crew | From | Typical weapons |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Longship or small galley | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 6 | 30 | Ancient | Its crew |
| War galley | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 18 | 10 | 150 | Ancient | Galley Ram, Corvus or Harpax, two bolt engines |
| Cog or carrack | 4 | 2 | -2 | 1 | 0 | 20 | 10 | 40 | Ancient | Bombard or light guns in the castles, from 1400 |
| Sloop | 3 | 3 | +1 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 8 | 30 | 1650 | Battery of 5 Light Guns a side |
| Sloop of war or brig | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 20 | 12 | 80 | 1650, from 1700 | Battery of 7 Light Guns a side |
| Galleon | 5 | 2 | -2 | 2 | 0 | 32 | 14 | 200 | 1400, from 1500 | Battery of 10 Medium Guns a side, Light Guns above |
| Sixth rate or small frigate | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 24 | 14 | 150 | 1650, from 1690 | Battery of 12 Medium Guns a side, two Long Nines |
| Frigate | 5 | 3 | -1 | 2 | 0 | 36 | 18 | 250 | 1650, from 1780 | Battery of 14 Heavy Guns a side, Carronades, two Long Nines |
| Ship of the line | 6 | 2 | -3 | 3 | 0 | 80 | 36 | 600 | 1650 | Batteries of 14 Great Guns, 14 Heavy Guns, and 9 Medium Guns a side |
| Bomb vessel | 4 | 2 | -2 | 1 | 0 | 22 | 10 | 60 | 1650, from 1680 | Two Mortars |
| Ironclad | 5 | 2 | -3 | 5 | 0 | 34 | 14 | 150 | 1860 | Two to eight Turret Guns |
| Torpedo boat | 3 | 5 | +1 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 8 | 12 | 1880 | Two Torpedoes, Quick-Firing Gun or Automatic Cannon |
| Destroyer | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 32 | 18 | 200 | 1900 | Four Dual-Purpose or Breechloading Naval Guns, eight Torpedoes, Depth Charges |
| Cruiser | 6 | 4 | -2 | 4 | 0 | 80 | 40 | 700 | 1900 | Nine Cruiser Guns, eight Dual-Purpose Guns, Light Anti-Aircraft Mounts |
| Battleship | 8 | 3 | -3 | 9 | 0 | 180 | 80 | 1500 | 1906 | Nine Battleship Guns, twenty Dual-Purpose Guns, many Light Anti-Aircraft Mounts |
| Submarine | 5 | 2 | -2 | 1 | 1 | 30 | 16 | 50 | 1914 | Six Torpedo tubes, a Breechloading Naval Gun on deck |
| Missile frigate | 5 | 4 | -1 | 1 | 1 | 34 | 22 | 180 | 1970 | Dual-Purpose Gun, eight Anti-Ship Missiles, Surface-to-Air Missiles, Close-In Weapon System |
A wooden ship burns. An iron or steel one does not.
A two-decked fifth rate of 1650 to 1750 uses the Galleon row. A merchant sloop sails with a crew of 10 and fights its guns short-handed.
A submarine that is submerged can be attacked only by a Depth Charge, an Anti-Submarine Mortar, or a torpedo. Finding it is a Hard Perception check with hydrophones or sonar, and Average if it has just fired.
Air
| Vehicle | Scale | Speed | Handling | Armor | Def | Hull | Sys | Crew | From | Typical weapons |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Biplane scout | 2 | 4 | +2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1915 | Aircraft Machine Guns |
| Early bomber | 4 | 3 | -2 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 8 | 4 | 1917 | Six Light Bombs, two flexible Aircraft Machine Guns |
| Piston fighter | 3 | 6 | +2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 1936 | Aircraft Cannon or two Aircraft Machine Guns; Unguided Rockets or a General-Purpose Bomb |
| Dive or torpedo bomber | 3 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 1936 | General-Purpose Bomb or Aerial Torpedo, Aircraft Machine Guns |
| Heavy bomber | 5 | 5 | -3 | 1 | 0 | 28 | 14 | 10 | 1938 | Eight General-Purpose Bombs or two Heavy Bombs; five Heavy Machine Gun positions |
| Jet fighter | 3 | 8 | +2 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1950 | Rotary Cannon, four Air-to-Air Missiles |
| Strike aircraft | 4 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 10 | 2 | 1965 | Rotary Cannon, four General-Purpose Bombs, two Air-to-Ground Missiles |
| Attack helicopter | 3 | 4 | +1 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 1967 | Automatic Cannon, Unguided Rockets, four Air-to-Ground Missiles |
| Transport helicopter | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 1960 | Two door-mounted machine guns |
An aircraft that is disabled comes down. Its crew may bail out with an Average Reflexes check, from 1918 on.
An aircraft's Speed is on the same scale as a ground vehicle's only when it is near the ground. In a chase between an aircraft and anything on the surface, the aircraft wins.