If your Concord expansionist forces need a little boost in fire power, these three new drones will definitely provide you with some dakka!
All three new drones for the Concord are support drones that are packing some nice firepower. The C3M407 Close Support Drone, C3D2 Medium Support Drone with Fractal Cannon, and the C3D2 Medium Support Drone with Compression Cannon offer players a host of options to use against their enemies.
Have enemy units that are taking cover? Eliminate that cover with the Compression Cannon at close range or use the Fractal Cannon when more powerful punch is needed in an urban combat scenario. The Close Support Drone can field two plasma carbines or plasma light support guns. It also comes with a spotter drone and options to field 2 spotters, 2 Batter, or 2 Shield drones.
Concord C3D2 Medium Support Drone with Compression Cannon: $16
The compression cannon is a relatively exotic light support weapon mostly used in specialist roles by Concord forces where it is likely to be drone or vehicle mounted. Compression weapons use compression field technology to quantum reduce everything within a narrow field projected by the weapon – effectively scrunching matter to nothing.
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As with other compression weapons, the compression cannon doesn’t function at very short ranges and its effectiveness drops off very quickly over long range. The chief advantages of the weapon compared to plasma equivalents are its effectiveness against close targets – so long as they don’t come within the weapon’s limited compression range – and its ability to compress any cover the target is taking advantage of.
Concord C3D2 Medium Support Drone with Fractal Cannon: $16
The D2 medium support drone is a more heavily built vehicle than the D1 and eminently suitable as a weapons carrier. Its composite shell provides excellent all round protection and carries a highly effective kinetic shield. D2s are used both to support other troops and as the basis of drone formations alongside the bigger combat drones. The D2’s weapon mount is capable of bearing a number of different weapons but is usually armed with either plasma light support or plasma cannons.
The Fractal Cannon
Fractal weapons are primarily used for attacking static defences. They are relatively specialist weapons found in the arsenals of most Antarean forces but reserved for urban warfare where they are supremely useful. Fractal weapons utilise molecular resonance to break apart solid material. Although slow to develop full power, their ability to break apart buildings and machines is almost limitless. They are also known as fractal disintegrators. The fractal cannon is the smallest of these machines and the most readily mobile, but it is correspondingly less powerful that the larger ‘siege’ weapons.
Fractal Lock is the special rule for this cannon. If a frag borer hits its target it ‘locks on’. So long as the fractal cannon receives a fire order in each following turn, and so long as the target does not move, the weapon will automatically hit the target and no Acc test is necessary.
C3M407 (CS) Close Support drone: $41
Boasting clean lines and ample anti infantry weaponry this Drone is a must have for any commander preparing for a hostile take over. With the benefit of dual weapons giving it extra fire power and options for the additional drones to be taken as Spotter, Batter or Shield Drones, this will be a mobile bunker for your troops to launch their assault from behind.
These Concord drone kits are available now on Warlord Games’ on-line store.
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