A heavy laser is a light-based beam weapon about the size of a heavy machine gun. It must be mounted on a tripod or a swivel mount to be fired. It has longer range than a laser rifle, and a minimum SEU setting of 5. Otherwise it operates the same as the laser rifle.
Heavy lasers have an adjustable power setting ranging from 5 to 20, consuming an equal number of SEU per shot; lower settings are less damaging than higher settings, but all settings are technically "lethal", with no available "stun" setting.
A heavy laser can be fed via an armored cable from a power beltpack or backpack. Dedicated military heavy weapons teams usually have the team´s second member carry an econopack or a parabattery. In fixed emplacements, pintle-mounted heavy lasers may be fed from the redoubt´s generator.
- Cost: 6,000 credits
- Weight: 20 kilograms
- Damage: 1d10 per SEU
- Ammo Consumption: 5 to 20 SEU per shot
- Rate of Fire: 1 shot per turn
- Defense: Albedo
- Ranges
- Point Blank: N/A
- Short: 100 meters
- Medium: 500 meters
- Long: 1 kilometer
- Extreme: 2 kilometers
Heavy Laser, Vehicle-mounted[]
A vehicle mounted heavy laser is even more powerful than a standard heavy laser. As the name implies, it is typically mounted on a vehicle, though nothing prevents it from being mounted in a fixed fortification as well. It is capable of being dialed up to 30 SEU per shot, and has a longer range. Vehicle-mounted heavy lasers usually operate off of a power econopack or the vehicles or emplacement´s generator.
References[]
The standard heavy laser is described in the Alpha Dawn rulebook. The vehicle-mounted version of from the article "Tanks a Lot" in Dragon #91.
Gallery[]
Heavy lasgun (aka "devastator")
XM-312 Vehicle Heavy laser (successor of the PGC-HL5) tripod-mount
WarTech Firefall heavy laser, non-standard firing position