Sniper Cannon
From SOTS
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The contents of this page were introduced in A Murder of Crows. |
| Description: | (Random) A very high velocity variant of the gauss cannon that uses a nano-rifled barrel to create a very long range very accurate at long distances gauss weapon. The speed of the shot and slow barrel tracking makes the weapon less useful at close ranges though. |
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| Research Category: | Ballistic Weapons |
| Research Cost: | 15,000 Research Points |
| Required Technology: | Gauss Cannons |
| Races Allowed: | Hiver, Human, Liir, Morrigi, Tarka, Zuul |
| Effect: | Allows sniper cannons to be mounted on turrets. Low rate of fire, low damage (compared to other ballistic weapons) but very long range and high accuracy. They have a greatly reduced chance (-150%) of ricocheting off of ship armor. |
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| Version: | This information valid for Version 1.7.1 
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| No New Technologies Available |
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| Weapon Statistics | |||||||
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| Weapon Type |
Cost (per mount) |
Mount Size |
HP Bonus (per bank) |
Recharge Time (in seconds) |
Population Damage |
Infrastructure Damage |
Terraforming Damage |
| Ballistic | 70 | Small | 8 | 1,000 | 0.003 | 0 | |
| Range Band | Range | Targeting Inaccuracy |
Damage | Duration | |
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| Ship to Ship | Ship to Planet | ||||
| Point Blank | 405 | 6° | 35 | n/a | |
| Effective | 820 | .75° | 35 | n/a | |
| Maximum | 1455 | 2345 | .5° | 35 | n/a |
