3C-High Explosive Rocket
| “ | Standard calibre rocket with a heavy explosive payload. | „ |
| — In-game description |
The 3C-High Explosive Rocket (also known as HE Rockets) is a large artillery rocket.
Description
Like other artillery ordnance it is indirect fire: it has a natural inaccuracy which increases with range, its trajectory is affected by the wind, and it can trigger the retaliation of Artillery Garrisons.
It explodes on impact.
By default its explosion deals 700 High Explosive damage in a 2.25m radius and decreasing amounts in a 5.5m radius.
It's effective against most structures but much less against very resistant ones, and awful against Trenches.
It is not very effective against armored vehicles and its innacuracy makes it hard to hit a mobile target. It can disable their subsystems (the tracks in most cases).
It can kill infantry and unarmored vehicles although that isn't cost efficient.
Despite being High Explosive, it wounds soldiers rather than immediately kill them.
It is a Large Item and thus each shell must be loaded one at a time, carried on a soldier's shoulder.
Its weight is reduced by 33.3% when wearing a Heavy Ammo Uniform.
Usage
Large Item Handling
- Pick up on the ground - press
- Drop on the ground - press
- Force drop on the ground - press
+ - Submit to structure/vehicle's stockpile or inventory - press or click
Submit Large Item
button in target's interface - Direct retrieve from a Material Pallet, Rooster - Tumblebox, or Storage Room - press
Users
It can be fired by the following infantry weapons, vehicles, and structures:
• DAE 3b-2 “Hades' Net” 
• O'Brien V.200 Squire 
• R-17 “Retiarius” Skirmisher 
Production
| Site | Input(s) | Output | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
 Ammunition Factory (Rocket Battery Workshop) | 2 x Construction Materials  4 x Heavy Explosive Powder  4 MW of power  | 1 x 3C-High Explosive Rocket  | 00:00:25 |
Tier 2 Facilities must be fully researched in the Weapons and Structure 
Tech Tree in order to be produced.
3C-High Explosive Rocket in personal orders can be retrieved as reservable crates from a logistics vehicle with 
> Retrieve as Crates (1 per crate).
Storage
It does not stack in inventories (1 per slot) except in ammo slots dedicated to it in certain vehicle or structure inventories (varying stack sizes).
It can be stored in stockpiles of Bases (32k max) but also in Material Pallets (60), Rooster - Tumblebox Trailer (20), Material Transfer Stations (1000), Small Flatbed Car (50) or Storage Rooms (100).
Crates of 3C-High Explosive Rocket can be directly submitted to any item stockpile that accepts that item to transfer their content. The crates can also be stored in the crate stockpiles of Storage Depot/Seaport/Aircraft Depot (1000 public, 100 per Reserve Stockpile), Shipping Containers (60), or Storage Ships (1000).
It can be transported by almost any vehicle with inventory slots, but is most commonly transported by Trucks, Small Flatbed Car, or shipping vehicles carrying Material Pallets. Delivering it in crate form is possible but extremely inefficient.
Trivia
- When 3C-High Explosive Rockets were introduced in Update 1.50 ('Inferno'), they were initially faction-neutral
- This was shortly changed after War 96 concluded, with them becoming Colonial-exclusive
- In Update 1.53, they once again became faction-neutral, as both sides were given equipment that used those rockets
- Their damage type was switched from Incendiary High Explosive to High Explosive in Update 1.61
Update History
| Update | Changes |
|---|---|
| Update 1.61 |
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| Update 1.53 |
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Gallery
A Material Transfer Station containing 3C-High Explosive Rockets
A Material Pallet loaded with 3C-High Explosive Rockets
A Storage Room containing 3C-High Explosive Rockets
Animation of the DAE 3b-2 “Hades' Net” firing 3C-High Explosive Rockets
• Coal 
• Components 
• Copper 
• Damaged Components 
• Iron 
• Rare Metal 
• Salvage 
• Sulfur 
• Wreckage 
• Assembly Materials II 
• Assembly Materials III 
• Assembly Materials IV 
• Assembly Materials V 
• Barbed Wire 
• Concrete Materials 
• Metal Beam 
• Pipe 
• Processed Construction Materials 
• Rare Alloys 
• Sandbag 
• Steel Construction Materials 
• Thermal Shielding 
• Unstable Substances 
