Damage Types

This is a list of all the damage types in the game and their effects. See Damage Resistance to check how each damage type is mitigated by various armor types.

Light Kinetic

Effects:

• No damage to structures (except Fire Pit and structure blueprints).
• Extremely reduced damage to armored vehicles.
• Cannot damage Vehicle Subsystems.

Used by:

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  .44

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  7.62mm

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  7.92mm

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  8mm

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  9mm

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  A3 Harpa Fragmentation Grenade 

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  Buckshot

Heavy Kinetic

Effects:

• Reduced damage to "Tier 1" Structures, no damage to other structures.
• Reduced damage to light armored vehicles and extremely reduced damage to heavy armored vehicles.
• Cannot damage Vehicle Subsystems.

Used by:

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  12.7mm

Anti-Tank Kinetic

Effects:

• No damage to structures
• Effective against armored vehicles
• Must penetrate armored vehicles' Armor to deal damage.
• Reduced chance to disable Vehicle Subsystems (3 times less likely compared to other anti-tank ammo).

Used by:

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  20mm

Shrapnel

Effects:

• Always makes infantry targets bleed
• No damage to structures
• Reduced damage to light armored vehicles and extremely reduced damage to heavy armored vehicles.
• Cannot disable Vehicle Subsystems.

Used by:

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  Bomastone Grenade 

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  Shrapnel Mortar Shell

Flare

Effects:

• Illuminates an area, revealing the soldiers in it
• Deals no damage

Used by:

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  Flare Mortar Shell

Poisonous Gas

Effects:

• Injures and/or bleeds soldiers regardless of cover (inside a structure or vehicle) if they don't wear a gas mask with filter
• Deals no damage to structures or vehicles

Used by:

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  Green Ash Grenade

Explosive

Effects:

• Effective against structures and vehicles.
• Reduced damage to fortified structures and Trenches.
• Can disable Vehicle Subsystems.

(Some weapons using that type must penetrate armored vehicles' Armor to deal damage)

Used by:

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  30mm

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  40mm

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  75mm

• 

  Mammon 91-b

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  RPG

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  Tremola Grenade GPb-1

High Explosive

Effects:

• Effective against structures.
• Reduced damage to fortified structures and extremely reduced to Trenches.
• Reduced damage to vehicles except medium and Large Ships
• Can disable Vehicle Subsystems.

Used by:

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  120mm

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  150mm

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  300mm

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  E680-S Rudder Lock

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  Model-7 “Evie”

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  Moray Torpedo

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  Mortar Shell

Demolition

Effects:

• Very effective against all structures and unarmored vehicles.
• Reduced damage to armored vehicles.
• Can disable Vehicle Subsystems.
• Can devastate structures.

Used by:

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  250mm

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  Alligator Charge 

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  Havoc Charge

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  Hydra's Whisper 

Armour Piercing

Effects:

• Reduced damage to structures.
• Very effective against all vehicles
• Must penetrate armored vehicles' Armor to deal damage.
• +50% chance to penetrate armored vehicles' Armor.
• Can disable Vehicle Subsystems.

Used by:

• 

  68mm

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  94.5mm

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  AP⧸RPG 

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  ARC⧸RPG

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  Ignifist 30 

Anti-Tank Explosive

Effects:

• No damage to structures
• Very effective against all vehicles.
• Can disable Vehicle Subsystems.

Used by:

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  Abisme AT-99

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  Anti-Tank Sticky Bomb

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  BF5 White Ash Flask Grenade 

Incendiary

Effects:

• Effective against unarmored vehicles.
• No damage to armored vehicles.
• No "direct" damage to structures.
• Can set structures on fire, dealing damage over time and preventing their repair.
• Cannot disable Vehicle Subsystems.

Used by:

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  “Molten Wind” v.II Ammo 

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  Flame Ammo

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  Willow's Bane Ammo 

Incendiary High Explosive

Effects:

• Effective against structures.
• Reduced damage to fortified structures and extremely reduced to Trenches and Dragon's Teeth.
• Reduced damage to vehicles.
• Reduced damage to Large Ships.
• Can set structures on fire, dealing damage over time and preventing their repair.
• Cannot disable Vehicle Subsystems.

Used by:

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  3C-High Explosive Rocket

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  4C-Fire Rocket