Laser Gatling Gun

Laser Gatling Gun
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Weapon Type:	Light
Cost:	3 Victory Points
Damage
Damage: Wood: 4-7 (14.7 DPS) Reinforced Wood: 3-5 (10.7 DPS) Iron: 1-2 (4 DPS) Cloth: 5-7 (16 DPS) Stone: 1-3 (5.3 DPS) Dragon: 5-7 (16 DPS)	Critical Chance: Wood: 1% Reinforced Wood: 0% Iron: 0% Cloth: 2% Stone: 100% Dragon: 50%
Fire
Strength: Wood: 1 Reinforced Wood: 1 Iron: 1 Cloth: 2 Stone: 1 Dragon: 0.5	Chance: Wood: 2% Reinforced Wood: 0% Iron: 0% Cloth: 15% Stone: 100% Dragon: 50%
Ballistics
Range: Effective: 45 metres Long: 75 metres Maximum: 120 metres Velocity: 70	Inaccuracy: Effective: 0.04992 Long: 0.12217 Maximum: 0.19181
Fire Rate
Reload Time: 3 seconds Burst Quantity: 8 shots Burst Interval: 0.15 seconds

The Laser Gatling Gun is a rapid-fire, light weapon that fires a burst of 8 bullets at a time.

Summary

Pros

• Very fast reload.
• Massive DPS on paper.
• Extremely effective at destroying sails.

Cons

• Low damage to strong materials like iron.
• Short range.
• Extremely likely to ricochet, resulting in lower DPS in practise.

Armed Ships

Imperial

	Assault Cutter
	Heavy Scout
	Fast Frigate
	Man-o-War
	StarHammer

Pirate

	Fast Attack
	Carrack
	Galleon

Procyon

	Gunboat
	Tender

Ironclad

Dreadnought

Civilian

Schooner

Miscellaneous

Development Weapon Barge

Armed Bases

Imperial

• Outpost Osterman
• Outpost Perseus (Border Dispute)
• Outpost Perseus (Convoy Raid)
• Outpost Regina
• Waystation Grant
• Waystation Montgomery

Pirate

• Camp Latchkey
• Camp Strongbox (Mousetrap)
• Unnamed Pirate Base (Mission 11)

Procyon

• Starkeep Cerberus

History

The Laser Gatling Gun fires many tiny LaserBalls close together. They are very effective at damaging sails or peppering light damage across many parts of an enemy ship in a very short time.

Trivia

• The Laser Gatling Gun's name is misspelt as 'Laser Gattling Gun' in game.
• When ignoring ricochet chance, this weapon has the highest damage per second in the game.

Armaments