Difference between revisions of "Frag grenades"

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Acquisition

Frag grenades can be crafted at a machining table for 25 + 80 and 12,000 ticks (3.33 mins) of work. They are also a common drop from raiders.

Description

Frag grenades have very short range, moderate aiming time, and a one-second delay before exploding in a 3x3 area, causes 50 damage to items and creatures, 200 damage to structures and terrain features, and 400 damage to walls. It's main benefits are the strong damage versus structures and large concentration of hostiles in tight areas. It offers a viable combat alternative to those with sight deficiency as it hits nine tiles at once, reducing target "miss" chances.

Usage without oversight is prone to vulnerable positioning, inefficiency against moving target and cause (some times) unwanted collateral damage.

Hostiles equipped with frag grenades are very dangerous, specially against your Mini-turrets and drafted (standing) colonists in cover, mostly because their casualties don't matter unlike player's colonists and will just charge forward without any care, but of course will retreat under fire. Players should pay attention to the "throwing" sound (a whooshing sound) and clear the area fast enough to avoid getting caught in its blast radius. A reasonably effective counter is to rush a grenade-equipped hostile with a melee weapon-wielding colonist. The hostile will prioritise the nearest target, since they are moving they will invariably miss, and then they will find themselves at a massive disadvantage in close combat. Another tactic that can be utilized is to find the frag grenade enemy, and focus fire on that pawn and only that pawn.

Usage

Frag grenades are unlimited and are thrown with the same animation as of shooting, they cannot be used over walls and must have a direct line of sight. A circular zone will generate to indicate range, then another 3x3 indicator with a circular center will become the aiming spot. The character cannot hold both the grenades and another weapon at the same time.

Grenades will always land within 1 tile of their targeted tile, including on the diagonal, unless the path of the grenade intersects with a wall or object. When throwing a grenade down an 1-tile wide alley, a pawn can consistently throw a grenade 4 tiles, not including the tile the pawn is standing on, without intersecting the two side walls. Beyond 4 tiles, there is a risk of hitting the wall and dropping short. This can be relevant to prevent friendly fire or damaging defenses during combat.

Frag grenades strictly benefit from the Trigger Happy trait, as the Aiming Time bonus applies while the accuracy penalty does not. Similarly, the Careful Shooter trait is strictly detrimental. The Shooting skill of the grenadier is largely irrelevant, making frag grenades a good option for utilizing low skill pawns.

Frag grenade range and AoE

Other uses

Firefighting

Frag grenades produce blast explosion but no fire, allowing instant extinguishing of fires.

Disposal

Frag grenades can also be used to clear dumping zones, though if you are clearing corpses it's better to light them on fire instead.

Version History

Beta 19/1.0 - Frag grenades are no longer a valid hunting weapon

Original Grenade sprite

Weapons

Melee | Neolithic: Breach axe • Club • Ikwa • Knife (Jade) • Spear

Medieval: Gladius • Longsword • Mace • Axe • Warhammer

Ultra: Eltex staff • Monosword (Persona) • Plasmasword (Persona) • Zeushammer (Persona)

Improvised: Beer • Elephant tusk • Thrumbo horn • Wood

Ranged | Neolithic: Greatbow • Pila • Recurve bow • Short bow • Flamebow

Medieval: Nerve spiker

Industrial: Assault rifle • Autopistol • Bolt-action rifle • Chain shotgun • Heavy SMG • Launcher (EMP, Incendiary, Smoke, Toxbomb ) • LMG • Machine pistol • Minigun • Pump shotgun • Revolver • Sniper rifle • Hellcat rifle • Incinerator

Spacer: Charge lance • Charge rifle

Consumables: Doomsday rocket launcher • Triple rocket launcher

Throwables: EMP grenades • Frag grenades • Molotov cocktails • Tox grenades

Mechanoid: Heavy charge blaster • Inferno cannon • Needle gun • Thump cannon • Beam graser • Charge blaster turret • Hellsphere cannon • Mini-flameblaster • Mini-shotgun • Slugthrower • Spiner • Toxic needle gun

Structures: Autocannon • Mini-turret gun • Mortar (Weapon) • Uranium slug cannon • Auto-mortar • Inferno cannon (Turret) • Light charge blaster • Mini-slugger • Tactical turret gun

Related | Body part weapons: Prosthetic arm • Bionic arm • Archotech arm • Power claw • Field hand • Drill arm • Venom talon • Venom fangs • Knee spike • Elbow blade • Hand talon • Flesh whip

Integrated weapons: Grenadier armor • Phoenix armor

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 Usage without oversight is prone to vulnerable positioning, inefficiency against moving target and cause (some times) unwanted collateral damage.
-Hostiles equipped with frag grenades are very dangerous, specially against your [[Improvised turret]]s and [[drafting|drafted]] (standing) colonists in cover, mostly because their casualties don't matter unlike player's colonists and will just charge forward without any care, but of course will retreat under fire. Players should pay attention to the "throwing" sound and clear the area fast enough to avoid getting caught in its blast radius. A reasonably effective counter is to rush a grenade-equipped hostile with a melee weapon-wielding colonist. The hostile will prioritise the nearest target, since they are moving they will invariably miss, and then they will find themselves at a massive disadvantage in close combat.
+Hostiles equipped with frag grenades are very dangerous, specially against your [[Mini_turret|Mini-turrets]] and [[drafting|drafted]] (standing) colonists in cover, mostly because their casualties don't matter unlike player's colonists and will just charge forward without any care, but of course will retreat under fire. Players should pay attention to the "throwing" sound (a whooshing sound) and clear the area fast enough to avoid getting caught in its blast radius. A reasonably effective counter is to rush a grenade-equipped hostile with a melee weapon-wielding colonist. The hostile will prioritise the nearest target, since they are moving they will invariably miss, and then they will find themselves at a massive disadvantage in close combat. Another tactic that can be utilized is to find the frag grenade enemy, and focus fire on that pawn and only that pawn.
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