ARMY
Claw Strike Drones
Tight-Beam Strike Craft
Executive Order strike drone, flown in wings of twelve. It fights at 160 m/s and fires tight-beam pulses from its power core out to 50 km in space or 5 km in ground engagements, at aircraft and ground alike. Each attack delivers up to 270 damage over 3 seconds of contact with the same target; lost tracking time reduces damage. Cloaking, countermeasures and flank insertion are available through Claw technologies.
01 · Speed
Cruise, dash and thrusters
It cruises at 160 m/s, and dashes to the battle's 450 m/s ceiling while its target is far.
02 · Combat
One drone, and the squad of 12
One drone at base rank, from the battle sheet; ranks strengthen hull, shield and damage.
03 · Weapon
Tight-beam pulse laser
Tight-beam pulse laser
Power-core emitter between the claws · one tight beam, in pulses
One power-core lens between the claws holds a tight beam on one target: 270 total damage (46 MJ) delivered gradually over 3 s of tracked contact. Attacks start at most once every 3 s and cannot overlap. Lost aim, range or line of sight loses damage; the remaining exposure cannot transfer to another target. Light-speed propagation causes no projectile travel delay. Air attenuates the delivered energy.
Fire cycle · one drone over 18 s
270 an attack every 3s: 90 a second. Six attacks land 1,620 from one drone, 19,440 from the squad of 12.
What lands · by distance through air
Sea-level air. In vacuum, nothing takes from it: it lands whole at any range.
Reach against the other units
04 · Available tech
What a commander can fit
Bought mid-battle with supply, for the squad of 12. Each one gives something and costs something.
Core upgrades · 4
Adds a +50% outer targeting band. Attacks, repairs, and boarding channels operate at 55% output beyond native range, and armed squads hold that safer line.
Converts the squad into a breacher: it closes to 45% range and deals +60% damage there, but deals 15% less outside the breach band.
No single hit can strip more than 30% of maximum hull after shields. Mobile units lose 12% thrust; static emplacements lose 18% maximum integrity. Strong into alpha strikes, weak into rapid fire.
Burns at +65% speed while marching or closing on its chosen standoff, then disengages in combat; turn authority is halved during the burn.
Claw Strike Drones signature tech · 8
Claw Strike Drones concentrates every power-core laser on one legal target.
Claw Strike Drones extends laser reach by 25% and cuts a 0.18 km lane through aligned enemies, with a 20% longer firing cycle and no allied damage.
Claw Strike Drones deals double shield damage but loses 10% damage against armor.
Claw Strike Drones remains concealed until firing or sensor detection, with 15% lower structural HP.
Claw Strike Drones jams guided ordnance within 6 km at strength 60, with 10% lower movement speed.
Claw Strike Drones carries a 180-strength shield across its forward 100° arc; flanks bypass it and movement speed falls by 10%.
Claw Strike Drones fields 30 drones with 15% lower individual structural HP and 10% lower pulse damage.
Claw Strike Drones may deploy from a flank strip, with 10% lower movement speed.