Empires Player Guide : Vehicle Payload Appendix

Machine Guns

Standard Machine gun
Cost: 10
Damage: 40
Clip Size: 50 rounds (3 Clips)
Slots: 1
Weight: 10
Added Heat: + 0.1
Description: A small machine gun that fires bullets with common properties.

Biological Machine Gun
Cost: 35
Damage: 5
Clip Size: Clip Size: 50 rounds (4 Clips)
Slots: 2
Weight: 70
Added Heat: + 0.5
Description: A small machine gun that fires bullets that contain infectious material to do continual damage to a target. Each hit deals 4 damage per second for 20 seconds. (Affects vehicles and infantry)

.50 Cal Medium Machine Gun
Cost: 30
Damage: 50
Clip Size: 75 rounds (5 Clips)
Slots: 2
Weight: 70
Added Heat: + 0.2
Description: A heavier .50 caliber firing medium machine gun.

.50 Cal Heavy Machine Gun
Cost: 40
Damage: 60
Clip Size: 75 rounds (6 clips)
Slots: 3
Weight: 90
Added Heat: + 0.2
Description: A heavier .50 caliber firing heavy machine gun.

Depleted Uranium Machine Gun
Cost: 30
Damage: 4
Clip Size: 80 rounds (4 clips)
Slots: 2
Weight: 70
Added Heat: + 0.5
Explosion Radius / Force: 50 / 30
Description: This machine gun fires armor penetrating rounds that can damage vehicle armor.

Depleted Uranium Heavy Machine Gun
Cost: 50
Damage: 5
Clip Size: 120 rounds (4 clips)
Slots: 3
Weight: 120
Added Heat: + 0.75
Explosion Radius / Force: 50 / 30
Description: This machine gun fires armor penetrating rounds that can damage vehicle armor. It is more damaging than the standard version.

Chain Gun
Cost: 20
Damage: 16
Clip Size: 200 rounds (4 clips)
Slots: 1
Weight: 70
Added Heat: + 0.3
Description: This machine gun fires ammo at a very fast rate.

Medium Chain Gun
Cost: 30
Damage: 32
Clip Size: 150 rounds (4 clips)
Slots: 2
Weight: 70
Added Heat: + 0.5
Description: This machine gun fires ammo at a very fast rate. Its damage is greater than the smaller version.

Plasma Machine Gun
Cost: 40
Damage: 1
Clip Size: 200 rounds (4 clips)
Slots: 2
Weight: 70
Added Heat: + 6
Explosion Radius / Force: 10 / 10
Description: This machine gun fires superheated ammo that is designed to overheat the target vehicle. Adds 10 heat to target on each hit.

High Explosive Machine Gun
Cost: 40
Damage: 12
Clip Size: 30 rounds (6 clips)
Slots: 2
Weight: 70
Added Heat: + 1
Explosion Radius / Force: 100 / 50
Description: This machine gun fires ammo which explodes upon impact. It is very effective against vehicles.

Tank Cannons

Standard Cannon
Cost: 20
Damage: 40
Clip Size: 30 shells
Slots: 1
Weight: 50
Added Heat: + 16
Explosion Radius / Force: 300 / 100
Description: A small caliber cannon that fires tank shells.

Ranged Cannon
Cost: 20
Damage: 60
Clip Size: 40 shells
Slots: 2
Weight: 70
Added Heat: + 14
Explosion Radius / Force: 300 / 100
Description: A small caliber cannon that fires tank shells. Its barrel is enhanced for farther distances.

High Explosive Cannon
Cost: 25
Damage: 75
Clip Size: 24 shells
Slots: 2
Weight: 70
Added Heat: + 16
Explosion Radius / Force: 400 / 200
Description: This cannon has its explosive compound upgraded for a stronger explosion upon impact.

Plasma Cannon
Cost: 25
Damage: 45
Clip Size: 30 shells
Slots: 2
Weight: 70
Added Heat: + 16
Explosion Radius / Force: 300 / 100
Description: This cannon fires a superheated shell able to transfer a large amount of heat into the target (8 heat per hit) and put it into an overheated shutdown.

Railgun
Cost: 35
Damage: 50
Clip Size: 40 shells
Slots: 3
Weight: 80
Added Heat: + 6
Explosion Radius / Force: 100 / 50
Description: This cannon uses magnetic coils to accelerate the shell. It produces less heat and can fire faster.

Artillery Cannons

Small Artillery Cannon
Cost: 30
Damage: 100
Clip Size: 10 shells (6 clips)
Slots: 1
Weight: 100
Added Heat: + 10
Explosion Radius / Force: 550 / 500
Description: An artillery cannon with high damage but low reload times. It has the shortest range but fastest reload.
Medium Artillery Cannon
Cost: 35
Damage: 120
Clip Size: 10 shells (8 clips)
Slots: 2
Weight: 100
Added Heat: + 10
Explosion Radius / Force: 700 / 600
Description: An artillery cannon with high damage but low reload times. Has a greater range than the small cannon and two extra ammo magazines.

High Explosive Artillery Cannon
Cost: 76
Damage: 150
Clip Size: 10 shells (8 clips)
Slots: 2
Weight: 100
Added Heat: + 15
Explosion Radius / Force: 900 / 700
Description: An artillery cannon with the greatest damage.

Ranged Artillery Cannon
Cost: 45
Damage: 100
Clip Size: 10 shells (8 clips)
Slots: 2
Weight: 100
Added Heat: + 20
Explosion Radius / Force: 1100 / 500
Description: An artillery cannon with high damage but low reload times. Has farthest range and largest splash damage of all artillery cannons.

Missile Launchers

Standard Missile Launcher
Cost: 20
Damage: 40
Clip Size: 4 missiles (5 clips)
Slots: 1
Weight: 30
Added Heat: + 4
Explosion Radius / Force: 100 / 50
Description: A dumb fire missile launcher with no homing capabilities.

Upgraded Missile Launcher
Cost: 30
Damage: 70
Clip Size: 6 missiles (5 clips)
Slots: 2
Weight: 50
Added Heat: + 6
Explosion Radius / Force: 100 / 50
Description: A dumb fire missile launcher with no homing capabilities but greater speed and damage than the standard version.

Biological Warhead
Cost: 40
Damage: 50
Clip Size: 3 missiles (3 clips)
Slots: 2
Weight: 120
Added Heat: + 6
Explosion Radius / Force: 300 / 50
Description: A dumb fire missile launcher which contains a biological agent in its warhead. Players and vehicles hit by the explosion will continuously suffer damage which lasts up to a full minute. Each hit deals 5 damage per second, inflicted for 60 seconds. (Affects vehicles and infantry)

Nuclear Tipped Missile Launcher
Cost: 150
Damage: 200
Clip Size: 6 missiles (1 clip)
Slots: 3
Weight: 200
Added Heat: + 70
Explosion Radius / Force: 2000 / 1000
Description: A dumb fire missile launcher with a nuclear warhead which inflicts excessive damage over a large area.

Salvo Missile Launcher
Cost: 30
Damage: 35
Clip Size: 4 missiles (8 clips)
Slots: 2
Weight: 50
Added Heat: + 3
Explosion Radius / Force: 100 / 20
Description: A missile launcher with no homing capabilities but can fire its payload of four missiles in quick succession before reloading.

Guided Missile Launcher
Cost: 30
Damage: 50
Clip Size: 4 missiles (4 clips)
Slots: 2
Weight: 50
Added Heat: + 10
Explosion Radius / Force: 110 / 40
Description: A missile launcher which fires missiles that follow the crosshairs after launch. It has a decent turning ability to track the crosshairs.

Upgraded Guided Missile Launcher
Cost: 35
Damage: 80
Clip Size: 4 missiles (4 clips)
Slots: 2
Weight: 50
Added Heat: + 15
Explosion Radius / Force: 130 / 60
Description: A missile launcher which fires missiles that follow the crosshairs after launch. It is upgraded for more damage and better tracking.

Homing Missile Launcher
Cost: 30
Damage: 60
Clip Size: 4 missiles (6 clips)
Slots: 2
Weight: 50
Added Heat: + 12
Explosion Radius / Force: 100 / 40
Description: A missile launcher which fires a single missile that home in on the locked on target. It has a good turning ability for tracking a target and a 50% chance of ignoring countermeasures.

Upgraded Homing Missile launcher
Cost: 35
Damage: 80
Clip Size: 4 missiles (6 clips)
Slots: 2
Weight: 50
Added Heat: + 16
Explosion Radius / Force: 100 / 60
Description: A missile launcher which fires a single missile that home in on the locked on target. It is upgraded for faster lock-on, better tracking, and more damage.

Salvo Homing Missile Launcher
Cost: 35
Damage: 40
Clip Size: 4 missiles (6 clips)
Slots: 2
Weight: 70
Added Heat: + 15
Explosion Radius / Force: 80 / 30
Description: A missile launcher that fires four missiles at once which home in on the locked on target. Due to the number of missiles released at once, each has a less effective tracking unit with an almost guaranteed chance of being fooled by countermeasures.

Grenade Launchers

Grenade Launcher
Cost: 10
Damage: 80
Clip Size: 10 grenades (2 clips)
Slots: 1
Weight: 50
Added Heat: + 8
Explosion Radius / Force: 200 / 100
Description: A grenade launcher suited for urban combat with its ability of clearing out tight spaces.

Upgraded Grenade Launcher
Cost: 20
Damage: 110
Clip Size: 10 grenades (2 clips)
Slots: 2
Weight: 50
Added Heat: + 8
Explosion Radius / Force: 400 / 150
Description: A grenade launcher suited for urban combat with its ability of clearing out tight spaces. It is upgraded for more damage and farther range.

Armor

Plain armor
Cost: 10
Health: 30
Slots: 1
Weight: 15
Description: Plain armor offers mild protection from damage.

Composite armor
Cost: 38
Health: 80
Slots: 1
Weight: 10
Description: Composite armor consists of layers of steel, ceramic, and plastic honeycomb, and it's designed to offer protection from almost all types of projectiles equally well.

Reactive armor
Cost: 34
Health: 70
Slots: 1
Weight: 20
Description: Electrically charged armor is internally aligned with charged capacitors. When an incoming projectile makes contact, the capacitor discharges its energy into the projectile, disrupting it or possibly even vaporizing it.

Reflective armor
Cost: 23
Health: 60
Slots: 1
Weight: 15
Description: Reflective armor is able to deflect almost all of a projectile's kinetic energy away from the vehicle so long as the projectile does not hit perfectly perpendicular to the armor plating.

Regenerative armor
Cost: 15
Health: 75
Slots: 1
Weight: 15
Description: Regenerative armor is engineered with living tissue designed to grow calcium carbonate as the protective medium. As it is newly formed, it is malleable enough to find its way into damaged areas where it solidifies and reinforces/replaces material that had been damaged/destroyed.

Absorbant armor

Cost: 15
Health: 50
Slots: 1
Weight: 15
Description: Absorbant armor is engineered with strong materials able to undergo excessive plastic deformation. This allows the armor to reduce damage received as a projectile's speed increases.

Engines

Standard engine
This is the standard engine with basic properties.
Cost (Jeep / APC / Tank): 10 / 10 / 35
Weight (Jeep / APC / Tank): 10 / 10 / 20
Max Weight: 2000
Max Speed Forward (Jeep / APC / Tank): 35 / 30 / 20
Max Speed Reverse (Jeep / APC / Tank): 15 / 15 / 15
Horsepower (Jeep / APC / Tank): 400 / 1050 / 2350
Heat (Idle / Max): 1 / 2

Gas Turbine engine
This engine excels in raw horsepower.
Cost (Jeep / APC / Tank): 20 / 50 / 70
Weight: 20
Max Weight: 5000
Max Speed Forward (Jeep / APC / Tank): 55 / 45 / 30
Max Speed Reverse (Jeep / APC / Tank): 25 / 25 / 20
Horsepower (Jeep / APC / Tank): 400 / 1050 / 2640
Heat (Idle / Max): 1 / 3

3-Phase Electric motor

Cost (Jeep / APC / Tank): 20 / 50 / 70
Weight: 20
Max Weight: 5000
Max Speed Forward (Jeep / APC / Tank): 75 / 65 / 40
Max Speed Reverse (Jeep / APC / Tank): 25 / 25 / 25
Horsepower (Jeep / APC / Tank): 400 / 1050 / 2650
Heat (Idle / Max): 1 / 2

Fission reactor
This engine has good horsepower and acceleration but has a high heat output.
Cost (Jeep / APC / Tank): 20 / 50 / 70
Weight: 20
Max Weight: 5000
Max Speed Forward (Jeep / APC / Tank): 70 / 60 / 35
Max Speed Reverse (Jeep / APC / Tank): 25 / 25 / 25
Horsepower (Jeep / APC / Tank): 400 / 1050 / 2575
Heat (Idle / Max): 1 / 4

Bio-Diesel engine
This bio diesel combustion engine is reliable and able to operate in the harshest conditions. This allows it to continue to operate even while taking excessive damage or being in an overheated state.
Cost (Jeep / APC / Tank): 20 / 50 / 70
Weight: 20
Max Weight: 5000
Max Speed Forward (Jeep / APC / Tank): 50 / 40 / 25
Max Speed Reverse (Jeep / APC / Tank): 25 / 25 / 15
Horsepower (Jeep / APC / Tank): 400 / 1050 / 2610
Heat (Idle / Max): 1 / 2

Advanced Coolant based engine
This standard engine uses an advanced heat transfer medium for excellent heat dissipation properties.
Cost (Jeep / APC / Tank): 20 / 50 / 70
Weight: 20
Max Weight: 5000
Max Speed Forward (Jeep / APC / Tank): 40 / 35 / 25
Max Speed Reverse (Jeep / APC / Tank): 25 / 25 / 15
Horsepower (Jeep / APC / Tank): 400 / 1050 / 2590
Heat (Idle / Max): 1 / 2