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Equipment (Long War)

2014-11-08T02:15:11Z

Boris: /* Ammunition and damage enhancing equipment */ Removed "+1" from all ammo counts on weapons page. Added note on Hi Cap Mags for SAWs since they get +2

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In Long War all soldiers have 2 item slots from the start of the game. Each carried item has weight, and reduces the soldier's mobility by 1 per weight (a soldier's base mobility figure is displayed with 2 weight carried, so carrying nothing gives +2 on the soldier screen). An item slot can be cleared with the "empty hand" button in the item slot. Items with increased charges from perks such as Packmaster do not have increased weight. 
Note that many items listed require [[Foundry (Long War)|Foundry]] projects to unlock, and others are replicated by class perks (e.g. Battle Scanner). The special perk-granted versions of these items have a yellow icon in the action bar (as opposed to blue) and in some cases can be used as the first action of a turn ''without'' ending the turn (''e.g.'' a Support may throw a Smoke Grenade and then perform another action).

== Soldier Equipment==

=== Protective Items===

The aliens shoot more often, hit hard and try to flank you. Sometimes even the best tactician needs some help and help you will get! Here for your convenience is a list of all the protective gear doctor Shen came up with in recent months. Most protective items do not stack with each other so make sure to read the description.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
!colspan="12" | Protective Items
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{ Mobility (Long War)}}'''Mob''' !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! rowspan="2" | Effect !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="6" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}} || Other
|-align=center
|[[Image: Ceramic Plates Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Ceramic Plates''' || -1 || All || Provides +1 Armor HP. Cannot be stacked with other plating items. || 0 || - || colspan="6" align="center" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Alloy Plating Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Alloy Plating''' || -1 || All || Provides +2 Armor HP. Cannot be stacked with other plating items. || 15 || Alien Materials || 50 || 5 || 0 || 0 || 7 || -
|-align=center
|[[Image: Chittin Plating Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Chitin Plating''' || -2 || All || Provides +3 Armor HP, reduces melee damage taken, and grants immunity to Seeker strangulation attack. Cannot be stacked with other plating items. || 35 || Chryssalid Autopsy || 100 || 20 || 0 || 0 || 10 || 10x Chryssalid Carcass
|-align=center
|[[Image: Reinforced Armor Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Reinforced Armor''' || -2 || All || Confers +1 Armor HP and +1 Damage Reduction, but -7 to Defense. Can stack with plating items. || 15 || Alien Materials || 90 || 10 || 0 || 0 || 7 || -
|-align=center
|[[Image: Chameleon Suit Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Chameleon Suit''' || -1 || Scout || Grants +5 Defense and improves Lightning Reflexes by further halving the chances of reaction fire hitting (95% for first shot, 85% for subsequent shots). || 35 || Seeker Autopsy || 80 || 0 || 5 || 12 || 7 || -
|-align=center
|[[Image: Respirator Implant Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Respirator Implant''' || -1 || All || Grants immunity to strangulation and partial immunity to acid. || 15 || Seeker Autopsy || 15 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 3 || -
|-align=center
|[[Image: Impact Vest Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Impact Vest''' || -1 || Assault || Grants the Shock-Absorbent Armor perk( 33% damage reduction against attacks within 4 tiles) and + 1 HP. || 50 || Mobile Power Armor || 100 || 10 || 5 || 5 || 10 || -
|-align=center
|[[Image: Mind Shield Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Mind Shield''' || -1 || Psionic || Provide +25 Will, Grants immunity to strangulation and panic, except Psi Panic || 55 || Sectoid Commander Autopsy || 200 || 20 || 30 || 5 || 20 || 5x Sectoid Commander Corpse
|-align=center
|[[Image: Psi Screen Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Psi Screen''' || -1 || Psionic || Confers +1 DR (vs. Psionic?), but draws -12 Will when equipped || 45 || Mechtoid Autopsy || 85 || 5 || 10 || 10 || 10 || 1x Mechtoid Core
|}

=== Thrown Devices===

There is nothing new in this category on first glance yet you will probably want to bring at least one Battle Scanner on missions since they not only reveal pods but also cloaked enemies. That makes them a lifesaver against Seeker swarms.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
!colspan="12" | Thrown Devices
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{ Mobility (Long War)}}'''Mob''' !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! rowspan="2" | Effect !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="6" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}} || Other
|-align=center
|[[Image: Battle Scanner Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Battle Scanner''' || -1 || All || Can be thrown to provide vision for two turns. Reveals cloaked targets|| 0 || - || colspan="6" align="center" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Mimic Beacon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Mimic Beacon''' || -1 || All || When thrown, the mimic beacon generates a unique audio signal that can cause unseen aliens to advance towards it. Has no effect on aliens that have already seen your agents. || 35 || Alien Communications Psi Warfare Systems (Foundry)|| 25 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 7 || 1xSectoid Corpse
|}

=== Grenades===
Grenades have a special place in Long War after changes made to rockets. They always hit their intended target and now you have at your disposition a lot more utility grenades. Also both explosive and utility grenades benefit from a plethora of different perks and two classes stand-out to make the most use of them - the Medic and the Engineer.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
!colspan="12" | Grenades
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{ Mobility (Long War)}}'''Mob''' !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! rowspan="2" | Effect !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="6" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}} || Other
|-align=center
|[[Image: AP Grenade Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''AP Grenade''' || -1 || All || Deals 2-6 damage to units not in cover relative to the center of the blast radius. || 0 || - || colspan="6" align="center" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: HE Grenade Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''HE Grenade''' || -1 || All || Deals 1-5 damage to units in blast radius and can destroy cover || 0 || - || colspan="6" align="center" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Alien Grenade Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Alien Grenade''' || -1 || All || Deals 3-7 damage to units in blast radius and can destroy cover Replaces HE Grenade via Foundry Project.|| 0 || Alien Grenades || colspan="6" align="center" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Flashbang Grenade Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Flashbang Grenade''' || -1 || All || Incurs -50% Aim, -40% Mobility and reduced range for many area-of-effect attacks on enemies in blast radius for one turn. Most synthetic/cybernetic and psionic enemies are immune.|| 0 || - || colspan="6" align="center" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Smoke Grenade Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Smoke Grenade''' || -1 || All || Confers +20 Defense to units in radius for two turns. || 0 || - || colspan="6" align="center" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Chem Grenade Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Chem Grenade''' || -1 || All || Creates an Acidic Cloud at the point of impact. Organic targets suffer reductions in mobility and take damage for performing actions other than hunkering down. All targets (also including robots) also suffer aim penalty and up to 3 DR nullified. Thin men and Chryssalids are immune. || 25 || Thin Man Autopsy || 80 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 5 || 3x Thin Man Corpse
|-align=center
|[[Image: Psi Grenade Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Psi Grenade''' || -1 || Psionic || Has the same effect as a flashbang grenade, but has a larger area of effect. Carried by Sectoid Commanders, but stuns drop it as an Alien Grenade. Confers a 2 Will penalty when equipped. || 25 || Xenopsionics || 50 || 1 || 1 || 1 || 7 || 1xSectoid Corpse
|-align=center
|[[Image: Ghost Grenade Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Ghost Grenade''' || -1 || Psionic || Grants stealth to units in an area for one turn. Incurs a -10 Will penalty when equipped. Can only equip one per soldier, perks that increase limited use items still apply. || 35 || Xenopsionics || 150 || 5 || 15 || 10 || 14 || 5xSeeker wreck
|}

=== Ammunition and damage enhancing equipment===
To combat aliens who have damage resistance, more HP, regeneration/self repair and numbers on their side you will require specialized ammo or harder-hitting weapons. Chances are you are going to need both. Do note that Ammo Piercing rounds stacks with Gauss weapons' damage reduction ability, so in essence you will inflict always a -2 to the enemy's damage reduction.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
!colspan="12" | Ammunition and damage enhancing equipment
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{ Mobility (Long War)}}'''Mob''' !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! rowspan="2" | Effect !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="6" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}} || Other
|-align=center
|[[Image: Rocket Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Rocket''' || -2 || Rocketeer || Grants one additional rocket. || 0 || - || colspan="6" align="center" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Shredder Rocket Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Shredder Rocket''' || -2 || Rocketeer || Grants one additional shredder rocket. || 0 || - || colspan="6" align="center" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Hi Cap Mags Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Hi Cap Mags''' || -1 || All || Grants +1 ammo capacity for primary weapon (+2 for SAWs). Stacks with bonus ammo from perks and other sources. || 0 || - || colspan="6" align="center" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Shredder Ammo.png|center|128x64px]]'''Shredder Ammo''' || -1 || Assault || Grants the Shredder Ammunition perk. || 30 || Experimental Warfare || 30 || 3|| 0 || 0 || 5 || -
|-align=center
|[[Image: Armor Piercing Ammo Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Armor Piercing Ammo''' || -1 || Gunner || Reduces enemy damage reduction (including that from cover) by 1.66 || 25 || Experimental Warfare || 25 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 5 || -
|-align=center
|[[Image: Breaching Ammo Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Breaching Ammo''' || -1 || Assault || Nullifies extra damage reduction penalties for shotgun-type weapons, including the sawed-off shotgun. || 35 || Experimental Warfare || 35 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 5 || -
|-align=center
|[[Image: Reaper Rounds Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Reaper Rounds''' || -1 || All || Increases critical hit chance of Ballistic and Gauss weapons by 20%, but halves the weapon's effective range. || 25 || Experimental Warfare || 20 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 7 || -
|-align=center
|[[Image: Alloy Jacketed Rounds Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Alloy-Jacketed Rounds''' || -1 || All || Increases Ballistic and Gauss weapon damage by 1. || 15 || Enhanced Ballistics || 20 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 5 || -
|-align=center
|[[Image: Enchanced Beam Optics Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Enhanced Beam Optics''' || -1 || All || Increases Beam and Pulse weapon damage by 1. || 55 || Enhanced Laser|| 35 || 4 || 0 || 1 || 10 || -
|-align=center
|[[Image: Plasma Stellerator Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Stellerator''' || -1 || All || Increases Plasma weapon damage by 1. || 75 || Enhanced Plasma || 125 || 10 || 10 || 2 || 14 || -
|}

===Optics and weapon attachments ===
Since aliens (and Exalt agents ) now have increasing stats with research and receive perks, it is harder and harder to land on good shot on them. For that reason a lot of new and exciting items are introduced to make your life easier on the battlefield. Do note that all optics stack with one another, so a combination of Laser Sight + Scope + Neural Gunlink will net you +25 Aim and Critical Chance.
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!colspan="12" | Optics and weapon attachments
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{ Mobility (Long War)}}'''Mob''' !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! rowspan="2" | Effect !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="6" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}} || Other
|-align=center
|[[Image: Laser Sight Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Sight''' || -1 || All || Confers +5 Aim and +5 Critical Hit Chance after SCOPE Upgrade. Stacks with SCOPE. || 0 || - || colspan="6" align="center" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: SCOPE Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''SCOPE''' || -1 || All || Increases aim by +10 for primary weapon and rocket launchers. . Receives +10% Crit chance with Foundry upgrade || 15 || Alien Weaponry || 80 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 7 || -
|-align=center
|[[Image: Targeting Module Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Targeting Module''' || -1 || All || Confers +7 Critical Hit Chance to a soldier's primary weapon. || 15 || Xenobiology || 20 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 7 || -
|-align=center
|[[Image: Smartgun Kit Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Smartgun Kit''' || -1 || Gunner || Grants the Advanced Fire Control perk, removing the aim penalty on reaction shots. || 30 || Experimental Warfare || 60 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 7 || -
|-align=center
|[[Image: Marksman Scope Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Marksman's Scope''' || -1 || Scout || Grants Squadsight to scouts (useful only when they equip Marksman's/Strike Rifles). || 20 || Experimental Warfare || 35 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 7 || -
|-align=center
|[[Image: Alloy Bipod Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Alloy Bipod''' || 0 || Gunner || Confers Platform Stability perk. || 25 || Experimental Warfare || 25 || 2 || 0 || 0 || 5 || -
|-align=center
|[[Image: Neural Gunlink Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Neural Gunlink''' || -1 || Psionic || Grants +10 Aim and +10 Crit Chance to primary weapon and rockets launchers, but -12 Will Penalty. Stacks with SCOPE and Laser Sight. || 40 || Xenopsionics || 75 || 3 || 8 || 8 || 7 || 1xSCOPE
|}

=== Miscellaneous Items===
Various items and curiosities that could make your life easier or harder, depending on how you use them.

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="12" | Items for XCom operatives
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{ Mobility (Long War)}}'''Mob''' !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! rowspan="2" | Effect !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="6" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}} || Other
|-
!colspan="12" | Miscellaneous Items
|-align=center
|[[Image: Alien Trophy Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Alien Trophy''' || -1 || All || Grants immunity to panic, except Psi Panic || 0 || - || colspan="6" align="center" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Medkit Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Medikit''' || -1 || All || Confers partial acid immunity, neutralizes acid, heals 3 HP (upgradable) || 0 || - || colspan="6" align="center" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Combat Stims Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Combat Stims''' || -1 || All || Strengthens user's will, grants 40% damage reduction, increased mobility and immunity to critical hits for the next 2 turns || 40 || Muton Berserker Autopsy || 180 || 0 || 0 || 2 || 10 || 1xBerserker corpse
|-align=center
|[[Image: Arc Thrower Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Arc Thrower''' || -2 || All || Stun device, carries one charge per mission. Standard: 55%/49%/43%/30%. Upgraded: 58%/58%/56%/55%/49%/43% || 20 || Xenoneurology ||100 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 10 || -
|-align=center
|[[Image: Fuel Cell Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Fuel Cell''' || -2 || All || Confers additional flight fuel for Archangel and Seraph armors. || 60 || Antigrav Systems || 50 || 4 || 15 || 0 || 7 || -
|-align=center
|[[Image: Walker Servos Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Walker Servos'''|| +2 || All || Grants +2 Mobility. ||45 || Advanced Servomotors || 100 || 5 || 5 || 5 || 10 || -
|}

=== EXALT HQ Loot===
Instead of plundering art, intel and valuables from the HQ in Long War Xcom will find some interesting and unique prototypes, built by Exalt.
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!colspan="12" | EXALT HQ Loot
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{ Mobility (Long War)}}'''Mob''' !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! rowspan="2" | Effect !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="6" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}} || Other
|-align=center
|[[Image: Illuminator Gunsight Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Illuminator Gunsight''' || -1 || All || Confers Executioner perk and +10% to both Aim and Critical Chance. || 0 || EXALT Base Assault Loot || colspan="6" align="center" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Cognitive Enchancer Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Cognitive Enhancer''' || -1 || All|| Confers +20% Experience. || 0 || EXALT Base Assault Loot || colspan="6" align="center" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Neuroregulator Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Neuroregulator''' || -1 || Psionic || Confers +20% Psi XP || 0 || EXALT Base Assault Loot || colspan="6" align="center" | N/A
|}

== MEC and SHIV Equipment ==

=== Perk Granting Equipment===
One of the main features of Long War mechanized units is their versatility. Not only you have 8 different MEC classes to play with, you also have the chance to fully kit both your MECs and SHIVs with items that can supplement or completely change their role on the battlefield.
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!colspan="13" | Perk Granting Equipment
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | MEC !! rowspan="2" | SHIV !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}}'''Mob''' !! rowspan="2" | Effect !!colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="6" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}} || Other
|-align=center
|[[Image: Alloy Belt Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Alloy Belt''' || {{Yes Icon}} || {{Yes Icon}} || -1 || Grants Extra Conditioning perk. || 20 || Alien Materials || 40 || 20 || 0 || 0 || 7 || -
|-align=center
|[[Image: HEAT Ammo Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''HEAT Ammo''' || {{No Icon}} || {{Yes Icon}} || -1 || Grants HEAT Ammo perk, providing additional damage against mechanized units. || 15 || Alien Materials || 30 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 5 || -
|-align=center
|[[Image: Smartshell Pod Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Smartshell Pod''' || {{No Icon}} || {{Yes Icon}} || -1 || Grants the Flush ability and provides +5 aim . || 20 || Experimental Warfare || 30 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 7 || -
|-align=center
|[[Image: Counterfire Pod Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Counterfire Pod''' || {{No Icon}} || {{Yes Icon}} || -1 || Grants Reactive Targeting Sensors perk, allowing the SHIV to return fire. || 40 || Mechtoid Autopsy || 120 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 10
|-align=center
|[[Image: Adaptive Tracking Pod Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Adaptive Tracking Pod''' || {{No Icon}} || {{Yes Icon}} || -1 || Grants the Advanced Fire Control perk. || 20 || Experimental Warfare || 55 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 7 || -
|-align=center
|[[Image: Damage Control Pod Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Damage Control Pod'' || {{No Icon}} || {{Yes Icon}} || -1 || Grants the Damage Control perk, reducing oncoming damage by 1 or 2 for several turns after first being struck. || 25 || SHIV Defenses || 65 || 5 || 2 || 0 || 10 || -
|-align=center
|[[Image: Holo Targeter Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Holo-Targeter''' || {{Yes Icon}} || {{Yes Icon}} || -1 || Grants Holo-Targeting perk and provides +5 aim. || 15 || Drone Autopsy || 40 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 7 || -
|-align=center
|[[Image: Weapon Supercooler Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Weapon Supercooler''' || {{No Icon}} || {{Yes Icon}} || -1 || Grants Light 'Em Up perk, allowing a second shot or action after firing the main weapon as the first action. || 55 || Sectopod Autopsy || 130 || 10 || 5 || 0 || 10 || -
|-align=center
|[[Image: Autosentry Turret Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Autosentry Turret''' || {{No Icon}} || {{Yes Icon}} || -1 || Confers the Sentinel perk, allowing the SHIV to fire twice while on overwatch. || 35 || Cyberdisc Autopsy || 75 || 5 || 0 || 0 || 10 || -
|-align=center
|[[Image: Core Armoring Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Core Armoring''' || {{No Icon}} || {{Yes Icon}} || -1 || Grants +2 HP and the Resilience perk, rendering the SHIV immune to Critical Hits. || 15 || SHIV Defenses || 35 || 5 || 0 || 0 || 7 || -
|-align=center
|[[Image: Tactical Sensors Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Tactical Sensors''' || {{Yes Icon}} || {{No Icon}} || -1 || Grants Tactical Sense perk, enhancing defense by 5 for every enemy the MEC can see. (Up to a maximum bonus of +20)|| 35 || Mechtoid Autopsy || 65 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 7 || 1xUFO Flight Computer
|}

=== Damage Enhancing Equipment ===
Looking for an extra punch? Look no further, equip one of these and invite the aliens to a dance.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
!colspan="13" | Damage Enhancing Equipment
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | MEC !! rowspan="2" | SHIV !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}}'''Mob''' !! rowspan="2" | Effect !!colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="6" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}} || Other
|-align=center
|[[Image: Depleted Elerium Rounds Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Depleted Elerium Rounds''' || {{Yes Icon}} || {{Yes Icon}} || -1 || Increases Autocannon, Sentry Gun, Minigun, and Railgun damage by 1. || 15 || Enhanced Ballistics || 50 || 5 || 1 || 0 || 7 || -
|-align=center
|[[Image: Laser Pumper Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Pumper''' || {{Yes Icon}} || {{Yes Icon}} || -1 || Increases Superheavy Laser, Superheavy Pulse, Laser Lance, and Pulse Lance damage by 1. || 55 || Enhanced Lasers|| 75 || 10 || 5 || 0 || 10 || -
|-align=center
|[[Image: Zevatron Booster Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Zevatron Booster''' || {{Yes Icon}} || {{Yes Icon}} || -1 || Increases Particle Cannon and Superheavy Plasma damage by 1. || 135 || Enchanced Plasma || 180 || 20 || 20 || 10 || 14 || -
|-align=center
|[[Image: The Thumper Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''The Thumper''' || {{Yes Icon}} || {{No Icon}} || -1 || Increases Kinetic Strike Damage by 3. || 70 || Antigrav Systems || 85 || 20 || 15 || 1 || 12 || -

|}
=== Miscellaneous Equipment===
Here you will find various items designed to give your mechanized units more pronounced attributes.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
!colspan="13" | Miscellaneous Equipment
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | MEC !! rowspan="2" | SHIV !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}}'''Mob''' !! rowspan="2" | Effect !!colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="6" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}} || Other
|-align=center
|[[Image: Autoloader Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Autoloader''' || {{Yes Icon}} || {{Yes Icon}} || -1 ||Confers 1 additional shot or burst to primary weapon. Stacks with Lock'N'Load. || 10 || - || 30 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 7 || -
|-align=center
|[[Image: Alloy Carbide Plating Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Alloy Carbide Plating''' || {{Yes Icon}} || {{Yes Icon}} || -1 || Increases both DR and HP of the equipped unit by +1. || 35 || Heavy Floater Autopsy || 90 || 10 || 0 || 5 || 10 || -
|-align=center
|[[Image: Weapon Gyros Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Weapon Gyros''' || {{Yes Icon}} || {{Yes Icon}} || -1 || Provides +5 aim and +5 crit. || 12 || Alien Weaponry || 30 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 7 || -
|-align=center
|[[Image: Battle Computer Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Battle Computer''' || {{Yes Icon}} || {{Yes Icon}} || -1 || Provides +10 aim, crit chance and defence. || 75 || Sectopod Autopsy || 300 || 25 || 5 || 25 || 12 || 1xUFO Flight Computer
|-align=center
|[[Image: Elerium Turbos Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Elerium Turbos''' || {{Yes Icon}} || {{Yes Icon}} || +2 || Increases SHIV/MEC mobility by 2 points. || 45 || Advanced Servomotors || 30 || 8 || 15 || 10 || 7 || -

|}

[[Category: Long War]]

Weapons (Long War)

2014-11-08T02:11:02Z

Boris: /* SHIV Turrets */

{{CheckOutdated (Long War)|b14}}
Long War makes several changes to weapons:
* There are five tiers of weapons: Conventional/Ballistic, Beam Laser, Gauss, Pulse Laser, Plasma.
* There are several additional types of primary and secondary weapon available in each tier.
* Many weapons can be Steadied as an action to improve aim for the next turn.
* Explosives no longer do fixed damage, and their damage reduces the further a target is from the center of the blast.
* Rocket launchers use a revamped accuracy system using the soldier's aim.
==Weapon tiers==
===Conventional/Ballistic===
These are the basic weapons you start with - and whilst they're okay to begin with, they're not going to be up to scratch in the long run. The sawed-off shotgun is unique to this tier. Ballistic weapons use the same models as EXALT ballistic weapons in vanilla.

===Beam Lasers===
Early beam lasers form the second tier of weapons, and all carry a small inherent accuracy bonus, which can make them good 'training' weapons for inexperienced troopers or as aiming aid for rocketeers in their aiming of explosives (much like you might otherwise issue them regular carbines). They also have a little more firepower than Ballistic weapons, but it still won't be enough in the long run. Although skipping laser weaponry in vanilla is a viable and at times easy-to-pull-off gambit, in long war expense of gauss weapons combined with the tighter economy makes this less appealing, and the aim bonus beam lasers confer makes them arguably better early game than gauss anyway. Beam Lasers use the same visuals as EXALT laser weapons in vanilla.

===Gauss===
Gauss weapons return to ballistic projectiles but elerium power sources make man-portable magnetic accelerators practical; combined with alloy-based projectiles, it's a recipe for pretty formidable personal weaponry. In general Gauss weapons have a larger clip size, which can make this tier of weapons preferable for soldiers that has ammo-intensive perks or abilities such as flush ,suppression, collateral damage, in the zone, close combat specialist, close encounters, light 'em up, and rapid fire. Uniquely, the sniper rifle of this tier--the Gauss long rifle--grants snipers the HEAT ammo perk, whom otherwise can't obtain said perk normally. This makes Gauss snipers a powerful counter to mechanical leaders/bosses whom can have over 50 health and a staggering amount of damage reduction; though in return, the Gauss long rifle has a rather inconvenient clip size of 1. Gauss weapons use the original XCOM weapon models.

Note: There are plans to give this tier of weaponry additional damage reduction penetration in '''future editions''' of the mod. (b14)

===Pulse Lasers===
Refining and enhancing laser technology allows for the development of pulse laser weaponry, another step up in terms of firepower. Pulse laser weapons have a bonus to their critical hit chance, which might make them more preferable to laser weapons in the hands of crit-focused assaults and snipers. They use the same visuals as XCOM-built laser weaponry.
===Plasma===
Plasma tier weapons are the most powerful in terms of raw damage, but also expensive and hard to obtain; building them requires captured alien weapons as production components... which means you'll have to stun and capture aliens for every weapon you want to build.
== Weapon types==
Long War adds many new types of primary and secondary weapon. Most of these weapon types have a corresponding weapon at each technology level. The primary weapon types are, in descending order of average damage: '''SHIV/MEC Primary Weapons''' > '''Light Machine Guns''' and '''Shotguns''' > '''Heavy Rifles''', '''Marksman/Sniper rifles''' and '''Squad Automatic Weapon''' > '''Assault Rifles''' > '''Carbines''' and '''Submachine Guns'''. In general, the more powerful a weapon is the more unwieldy it is as well, and that will reflect in aim and mobility penalties/bonuses. The MEC version of heavy machine guns have a unusually large deviation of +/-4. And finally Shotguns' damage is severely impeded by damage reduction.

=== '''Pistols''' ===
The default sidearm, very similar to vanilla pistols, except that they do not have unlimited ammo. Pistols have shorter effective range than assault rifles unless the soldier possesses the Gunslinger perk.
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
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| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
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|[[Image:Pistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pistol''' || 1-3 || 0% || 3-4 || 0 || 0 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} ||Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 0 ||None ||colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Laser Pistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]] '''Laser Pistol''' || 2-4 || 0% || 4-5 || +7 || 0 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}}|| Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer|| 15|| Beam weapons || 30 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 10
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Pistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]] '''Plasma Pistol''' || 3-5 || 0% || 5-7 || 0 || 0 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}}|| Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 90|| Compact Plasma Weapons || 175 || 25 || 20 || 1 || 12
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|}

==='''Machine Pistols'''===
A more damaging sidearm, but at the cost of added weight and decreased aim when drawn. Machine Pistols also tend to have very limited ammo. Useful for a Gunslinger soldier to finish off targets.
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
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| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
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|[[Image:Machine pistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Machine Pistol''' || 2-4 || 0% || 4-5 || -10 || -1 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 0|| None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Heater Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heater''' || 3-5 || 0% || 5-7 || -3 || -1 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 15|| Beam weapons || 30 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Gauss Autopistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Autopistol''' || 3-5 || 0% || 5-7 || -10 || -1 || 3 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 28 || Gauss Weapons || 40 || 4 || 1 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Blaster Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Blaster''' || 4-6 || 10% || 6-9 || -10 || -1 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 60 || Pulse Lasers || 80 || 12 || 8 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Mauler Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Mauler''' || 4-8 || 0% || 8-11 || -10 || -2 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 90 || Compact Plasma Weapons || 230|| 30 || 20 || 1 || 12
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|}

==='''SMG'''===
SMGs confer +3 mobility bonus and have the lowest damage and crit chance of all the primary weapons. Unlike Carbines, SMGs do not grant bonus accuracy. They're very useful for classes that need to reposition quickly to bring explosives and other area weapons against enemies, making them a good choice for Rocketeers and Engineers. Scouts, who might use the added mobility usually require something that packs a punch, like a Shotgun or any Rifle.
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:SMG Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Submachine Gun''' || 2-4 || 0% || 4-5 || 0 || +3 || 2 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 0|| None || colspan="5" | N/A
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|[[Image:Laser Shatterray Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Shatterray''' || 3-5 || 0% || 5-7 || +7 || +3 || 2 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 15 || Beam Weapons || 35 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Gauss Stuttergun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Stuttergun''' || 4-6 || 0% || 6-9 || 0 || +3 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || All || 28 || Gauss Weapons || 75 || 6 || 1 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Pulse Stengun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Stengun''' || 4-8 || 10% || 8-11 || 0 || +3 || 2 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 62 || Pulse Lasers || 120 || 15 || 10 || 0 ||12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Stormgun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Stormgun''' || 5-9 || 0% || 9-12 || 0 || +3 || 2 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 90 || Plasma Weapons || 200 || 30 || 20 || 1 || 12
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|}

==='''Carbines'''===
Carbines are light versions of assault rifles. They have reduced damage and crit chance, but confer +1 mobility and an accuracy bonus. They are ideal for inexperienced troops and those that need to move quickly, but experienced troops should switch to other weapons quickly as tougher aliens begin to appear.
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
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| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
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|[[Image:Assault Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Assault Carbine''' || 2-4 || 5% || 4-5 || +7 || +1 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
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|[[Image:Laser Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Carbine''' || 3-5 || 5% || 5-7 || +15 || +1 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 15 || Beam weapons || 40 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
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|[[Image:Gauss Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Carbine''' || 4-6 || 5% || 6-9 || +7 || +1 || 4 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || All || 30 || Gauss Weapons || 95 || 8 || 2 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Pulse Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Carbine''' || 4-8 || 15% || 8-11 || +7 || +1 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 63 || Pulse Lasers || 180 || 15 || 15 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Carbine''' || 5-9 || 5% || 9-12 || +7 || +1 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 90 || Plasma Weapons || 280 || 30 || 25 || 1 || 12
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|}

==='''Assault Rifles'''===
These are the baseline assault rifles, similar to their vanilla counterparts. They have a respectable balance of firepower and accuracy. 
The Arc Rifle is a special Rifle that grants Disabling Shot with the regular 2-turn cooldown, although it does not confer the snap shot perk. It has low damage and ammo capacity. Useful early on for raiding small UFO's with capable soldiers and plenty of arc thrower uses.

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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
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|[[Image:Assault Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Assault Rifle''' || 3-5 || 10% || 5-7 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Laser Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Rifle''' || 4-6 || 10% || 6-9 || +7 || 0 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 15 || Beam weapons || 50 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Gauss Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Rifle''' || 4-8 || 10% || 8-11 || 0 || 0 || 4 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || All || 30 || Gauss Weapons || 100 || 12 || 2 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image:Pulse Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Rifle''' || 5-9 || 20% || 9-12 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 60 || Pulse Lasers || 200 || 20 || 15 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Rifle''' || 6-10 || 10% || 10-14 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer|| 95 || Advanced Plasma Weapons || 380 || 40 || 30 || 2 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Arc Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Arc Rifle''' || 1-3 || 0% || 3-4 || 0 || 0 || 2 || 200 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Grants Disabling Shot, Cannot fire after any costly action || All except Gunners and Rocketeers || 25 || Xenoneurology New Combat Systems || 60 || 2 || 2 || 0 || 10
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|}

==='''Battle Rifle'''===
Battle Rifles are heavier versions of assault rifles. They do increased damage and have one additional burst relative to assault rifles, but carry a mobility penalty and a hefty aim penalty. They are best used by experienced soldiers who can aim well enough to offset the penalty (Infantry in particular, thanks to their high aim progression and ability to fire multiple times per turn cycle).
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:Battle Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Battle Rifle''' || 4-6 || 10% || 6-9 || -15 || -1 || 4 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Heavy Laser Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heavy Laser Rifle''' || 4-8|| 15% || 8-11 || -8 || -1 || 4 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 20 || Advanced Beam Lasers || 70 || 4 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Heavy Gauss Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heavy Gauss Rifle''' || 5-9 || 15% || 9-12 || -15 || -1 || 5 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 40 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 140 || 15 || 5 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image:Heavy Pulse Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heavy Pulse Rifle''' || 6-10 || 25% || 10-14 || -15 || -1 || 4 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 67 || Advanced Pulse Lasers || 220 || 25 || 20 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Heavy Plasma Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heavy Plasma Rifle''' || 7-11 || 15% || 11-16 || -15 || -1 || 4 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 105 || Heavy Plasma Weapons || 400 || 40 || 28 || 2 || 18
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|}

==='''Shotgun'''===
Long War shotgun-type weapons are similar to their vanilla counterparts. High damage, high crit chance, short range. Shotguns are extremely accurate up close, but suffer from very poor accuracy over longer ranges (even with Cinematic Mode enabled). As such, they work best with highly mobile classes or those that only ever expect to engage enemies up close, like Assault and Scout soldiers. 

The sawed-off shotgun, a point-blank range, high damage sidearm with -1 mobility. It has only one shot, and this cannot be increased by ammo capacity upgrades.
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Shotgun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Shotgun''' || 4-8 || 20% || 8-11 || 0 || 0 || 5 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage Reduction]] penalty || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Sawed-off Shotgun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Sawed-Off Shotgun''' || 4-8 || 5% || 8-11 || -15 || -1 || 1 || 3 || {{No Icon}} || Sidearm. Confers -1 mobility. Can only be used at point blank range. || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 1 || None || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 1
|-align=center
|[[Image: Scatter Laser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Scatter Laser''' || 5-9 || 20% || 9-12 || +7 || 0 || 3 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage reduction]] penalty
| Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 18 || Advanced Beam Weapons || 80 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Alloy Cannon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Alloy Cannon''' || 6-10 || 20% || 10-14 || 0 || 0 || 4 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage reduction]] penalty .33 DR reduction
| Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 32 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 150 || 18 || 5 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Scatter Blaster Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Scatter Blaster''' || 7-11 || 30% || 11-16 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage reduction]] penalty
| Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 62 || Advanced Pulse Weapons || 250 || 20 || 20 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Reflex Cannon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Reflex Cannon''' || 7-13 || 20% || 13-18 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage reduction]] penalty
| Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 102 || Sectopod Autopsy || 500 || 40 || 30 || 2 || 18
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|}

==='''Sniper Rifle'''===
Sniper Rifles are mostly identical to their vanilla counterparts and can only be used by Snipers. They have very long range (double the range of vanilla, making it functionally infinite), but can only be fired if the user has not taken a costly, including reloading, unless they have Snap Shot training. Long War sniper rifles have higher penalties when used at short range than vanilla sniper rifles. Sniper rifles can only overwatch fire up to visual range, so consider steadying the weapon instead to end a turn without targets (especially if you don't have snapshot training).
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Sniper Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Sniper Rifle''' || 4-6 || 25% || 6-9 || 0 || -1 || 5 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty || Sniper || 0 ||None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Laser Sniper Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Sniper Rifle''' || 4-8 || 25% || 8-11 || +7 || -1 || 3 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty || Sniper || 18 || Advanced Beam Weapons || 50 || 4 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gauss Long Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Long Rifle''' || 5-9 || 10% || 9-12 || 0 || -2 || 1 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty Grants HEAT Ammo perk. .33 DR reduction || Sniper || 35 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 250 || 15 || 5 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Pulse Sniper Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Sniper Rifle''' || 6-10 || 35% || 10-14 || 0 || -1 || 3 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty || Sniper || 65 || Advanced Pulse Lasers || 250 || 25|| 20 || 0|| 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Plasma Sniper Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Sniper Rifle''' || 7-11 || 25% || 11-16 || 0 || -1 || 3 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty || Sniper || 105 || Precision Plasma Weapons || 500 || 45 || 30 || 2 || 18
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|}

==='''Marksman Rifle'''===
Marksman rifles are smaller versions of sniper rifles that can also only be used by the Sniper and Scout classes. They have longer range than most weapons, but considerably shorter than sniper rifles nonetheless can be fired after moving. Like sniper rifles, marksman rifles have hefty accuracy penalties when used at short range. Marksman rifles have the same base damage as sniper rifles, but considerably lower crit chance. Marksman rifles can fire reaction shots up to their maximum range, and with Precision Shot they have unlimited range. 
Marksman Rifles are better suited to close-quarters maps where mobility is essential. 
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Marksman Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Marksman Rifle''' || 4-6 || 15% || 6-9 || 0 || 0 || 5 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty || Scout, Sniper || 0 ||None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Laser Strike Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Strike Rifle''' || 4-8 || 15% || 8-11 || +7 || 0 || 3 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty || Scout, Sniper || 18 || Advanced Beam Lasers || 50 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image: Alloy Strike Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Alloy Strike Rifle''' || 5-9 || 15% || 9-12 || 0 || 0 || 4 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty .33 DR reduction || Scout, Sniper || 35 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 120 || 15 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Blaster Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Blaster Rifle''' || 6-10 || 25% || 10-14 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty || Scout, Sniper || 67 || Advanced Pulse Lasers || 220 || 25 || 20 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Reflex Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Reflex Rifle''' || 7-11 || 15% || 11-16 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty || Scout, Sniper || 102 || Precision Plasma Weapons || 450 || 40 || 30 || 2 || 18
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|}

==='''Squad Automatic Weapon'''===
SAW-type weapons are the closest equivalent to vanilla LMGs in Long War. They can only be used by the Gunner class. SAWs have larger magazines and higher damage than assault rifles but confer a mobility penalty and can't be steadied. They allow faster movement than LMGs, but have less ammo and deal less damage. Suppressing a target with a SAW grants the Opportunist perk for any reaction fire triggered by enemy movement
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!colspan="18" | Squad Automatic Weapons
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: SAW Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''SAW''' || 4-6 || 0% || 6-9 || 0 || -1 || 6 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Gunner || 0 ||None || colspan="5" | N/A
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|[[Image: Autolaser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Autolaser''' || 4-8 || 0% || 8-11 || +7 || -1 || 6 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Gunner || 65 || Beam Weapons || 60 || 4 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gauss Autorifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Autorifle''' || 5-9 || 0% || 9-12 || 0 || -1 || 7 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || Gunner || 32 || Gauss Weapons || 110 || 15 || 2 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Pulse Autoblaster Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Autoblaster''' || 6-10 || 10% || 10-14 || 0 || -1 || 6 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Gunner || 65 || Pulse Lasers || 230 || 30 || 20 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Plasma Novagun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Novagun''' || 7-11 || 0% || 11-16 || 0 || -1 || 6 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Gunner || 98 || Advanced Plasma Weapons || 500 || 45 || 30 || 2 || 20
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|}

==='''Light Machine Gun'''===
LMG-type weapons are larger versions of SAWs and are also only usable by the Gunner class. LMGs carry a mobility penalty and can only fire if the user has not moved, but in return they have even larger magazines and even higher damage than SAWs. LMGs also have a slightly longer range than most weapons and confer the Squadsight perk on the user so they can make use of the extra range. When an LMG is used to suppress, the reaction shot taken if the target moves suffers no aim penalty and can crit. LMGs can only overwatch fire up to visual range. 
LMGs are ideal for heavy defensive situations where the Gunner can situate themselves securely and guard a given area using normal and reaction fire.
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!colspan="18" | Light Machine Guns
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: LMG Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''LMG''' || 4-8 || 5% || 8-11 || 0 || -2 || 8 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight || Gunner || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gatling Laser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gatling Laser''' || 5-9 || 5% || 9-12 || +7 || -2 || 8 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight || Gunner || 18 || Beam weapons || 60 || 5 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gauss Machine Gun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Machine Gun''' || 6-10 || 5% || 10-14 || 0 || -2 || 9 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight .33 DR reduction || Gunner || 40 || Gauss Weapons || 140 || 16 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gatling Pulser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gatling Pulser''' || 7-11 || 15% || 11-16 || 0 || -2 || 8 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight || Gunner || 64 || Pulse Lasers || 215 || 35 || 22 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Plasma Dragon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Dragon''' || 7-13 || 5% || 13-18 || 0 || -2 || 8 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight || Gunner || 105 || Heavy Plasma Weapons || 500 || 48 || 32 || 2 || 20
|-
|}

==='''Rocket Launchers'''===
Sometimes you just have to make a good first-time impression. Sometimes you just happen to not have the right key for a door. Sometimes you just want to give those aliens a running start on their way back - do not fret, Xcom have some portable rocket launchers for you! 

Rockets are fairly simple to use - pick youр ability, aim and fire. There is always some guaranteed scatter which is limited by the soldier's Aim and Abilities. While mostly used by Rocketeers, Engineers also have the ability at later stages of the game to carry a rocket launcher. Carrying one forfeits your sidearm. For more information regarding rockets read bellow.
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Rocket Launcher Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Rocket Launcher''' || 4-10 || 0% || - || 0 || -1 || 1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Rocketeer|| 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Recoilless Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Recoilless Rifle''' || 6-12 || 0% || - || 0 || -1 || 1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || .33 DR reduction|| Rocketeer|| 35 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 100 || 25 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Blaster Launcher Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Blaster Launcher''' || 8-16 || 0% || - || 0 || -2 || 1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Rocketeer|| 110 || Fusion Weapons || 600 || 60 || 65 || 2 || 20
|-
|}

==='''MEC Primary Weapons'''===
MEC weapons (unsurprisingly) can only be used by MECs. They are high damage and have extended range equal to marksman rifles and LMGs, but do not confer the squadsight perk, so only MEC classes that have squadsight can use the extra range. Even MECs with squadsight can only overwatch fire up to visual range.
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!colspan="18" | MEC Primary Weapons
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Minigun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Minigun''' || 5-9 || 10% || 9-12 || 0 || 0 || 2 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || - || MEC || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Laser Lance Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Lance''' || 7-11 || 10% || 11-16 || +7 || 0 || 3 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || - || MEC || 20 || Advanced Beam Lasers || 80 || 5 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Railgun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Railgun''' || 7-13 || 10% || 13-18 || 0 || 0 || 4 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || .33 DR reduction, no suppression || MEC || 35 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 120 || 25 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Pulse Lance Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Lance''' || 7-13 || 20% || 13-18 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || - || MEC || 65 || Advanced Pulse Lasers || 240 || 35 || 24 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Particle Cannon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Particle Cannon''' || 8-14 || 10% || 14-19 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || No suppression || MEC || 105 || Heavy Plasma Weapons || 450 || 45 || 40 || 10 || 14
|-
|}

==='''MEC Seconday Weapons'''===

With each upgrade of the MEC suit the number of utility items decreases while the number of secondary weapon systems increases. As such, they can play a vital role in area control, squad support or neutralizing targets. Be advised that unlike vanilla in Long War you have to build the systems yourself and they do cost a lot of meld.

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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Flamethrower Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Flamethrower''' || 4-10 || 0% || 8-11 || - || -1 || 2 || Cone || {{No Icon}} || Incendiary area attack causing panic || MEC || 20 || MEC Warfare Systems || 85 || 0 || 0 || 5 || 7
|-align=center
|[[Image: Kinetic Strike Module Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Kinetic Strike Module''' || 9-15 || 0% || 15-21 || - || -1 || ∞ || Melee || {{No Icon}} || Close combat weapon || MEC || 22 || Floater Autopsy || 200 || 15 || 2 || 8 || 10
|-align=center
|[[Image: Grenade Launcher Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Grenade Launcher''' || 3-7 || 0% || - || - || -1 || 2 || 17 || {{No Icon}} || Indirect-fire Grenade Launcher || MEC || 35 || Gauss Weapons || 150 || 12 || 0 || 6 || 10
|-align=center
|[[Image: Proximity Mine Launcher Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Prox. Mine Launcher''' || 6-12 || 0% || - || - || -1 || 3 || 17 || {{No Icon}} || Fires Proximity Mines || MEC || 40 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 150 || 12 || 0 || 10 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Restorative Mist Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Restorative Mist''' || - || 0% || - || - || -1 || 1 || 17 || {{No Icon}} || Heals allies in an area || MEC || 28 || Thin Man Autopsy || 120 || 0 || 0 || 10 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Electro Pulse Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Electro Pulse''' || 3-9 || 0% || - || - || -1 || ∞ || 17 || {{No Icon}} || Stuns robots. 3 turn cooldown || MEC || 85 || EMP Weapons || 180 || 15 || 15 || 15 || 14
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|}

==='''SHIV Turrets'''===
Similar to the SAW but considerably more powerful, these heavy and expensive guns are the only weapons that the SHIV can use. While they suffer from the low base aim of all SHIV units, they can shred through enemies at close range, restrict enemy movement options when in overwatch mode thanks to certain equipment, and can deal massive damage to mechanized forces when equipped with HEAT ammo.
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Autocannon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Autocannon''' || 5-9 || 10% || 9-12 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || SHIV || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Superheavy Laser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Superheavy Laser''' || 6-10 || 10% || 10-14 || +7 || 0 || 3 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || SHIV || 20 || Advanced Beam Lasers || 80|| 5 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Sentry Gun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Sentry Gun''' || 7-11 || 10% || 11-16 || 0 || 0 || 4 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || SHIV || 35 || Gauss Weapons || 120|| 15 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Superheavy Pulser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Superheavy Pulser''' || 7-13 || 20% || 13-18 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || SHIV || 65 || Pulse Lasers || 300|| 35 || 25 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Superheavy Plasma Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Superheavy Plasma''' || 8-14 || 10% || 14-19 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || SHIV || 100 || Vehicular Plasma Weapons|| 500|| 45 || 40 ||3 || 21
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|}

== Steadying ==
Many weapons have an extra action available: Steady Weapon. This is a standard action, which will end the turn when used, which grants +20 aim for the next shot. The bonus is discarded if the soldier moves or switches weapon. This essentially allows a soldier to fire a carefully aimed shot over two turns. The use of perks such as '''Light 'Em Up''' and '''Double Tap''' only apply the bonus to the first shot taken. Note that sniper rifles can be steadied after moving, even if the operator cannot fire them. Steady Weapon's Aim bonus also applies to fired rockets, reducing rocket scatter.

== Explosives ==
In Long War explosives no longer do fixed damage to all targets in their radius. The further a target is from the center of the blast, the less damage it will take. This also applies to cover and cover in general is a little tougher than in vanilla.

== Rockets ==
Long War uses a revamped system for rocket accuracy. Aim is used when firing rockets to determine the chance of them landing on target, rather than the fixed 90% chance in vanilla. Rather than the vanilla behavior of a missed rocket veering wildly off course, Long War rockets never "miss" but will veer off course a random amount based on the soldier's Aim, with higher Aim giving less scatter. Lower range means less scatter, and the soldier achieving 120 Aim yields no scatter at any range. Rockets can also be fired after moving, but with increased scatter and reduced range. Rockets can not change height through scatter.

The hit chance shown while aiming is not a literal % hit chance, nor is it the maximum scatter distance. "Scatter" instead indicates the standard deviation on the X and Y axis. You can expect 68% of your rockets to hit within the standard deviation, 95% to hit within 2 times the standard deviation, and 99.7% to hit within 3 times the standard deviation. Rockets can exceed even this degree of deviation, but the chance is negligible.

Unblocked (no "Shot is Blocked" warning) rockets that veer off course will travel through most destructible terrain to their destination, destroying it in the process. If they encounter an allied or enemy pawn, they will detonate immediately.

[[Category: Long War]]

Weapons (Long War)

2014-11-08T02:09:41Z

Boris: /* MEC Primary Weapons */ Removed "+1" from all ammo counts. Since SAWs are the only exception, I'm just adding note "+1 ammo (+2 for SAWs)" to Hi Cap Mags.

{{CheckOutdated (Long War)|b14}}
Long War makes several changes to weapons:
* There are five tiers of weapons: Conventional/Ballistic, Beam Laser, Gauss, Pulse Laser, Plasma.
* There are several additional types of primary and secondary weapon available in each tier.
* Many weapons can be Steadied as an action to improve aim for the next turn.
* Explosives no longer do fixed damage, and their damage reduces the further a target is from the center of the blast.
* Rocket launchers use a revamped accuracy system using the soldier's aim.
==Weapon tiers==
===Conventional/Ballistic===
These are the basic weapons you start with - and whilst they're okay to begin with, they're not going to be up to scratch in the long run. The sawed-off shotgun is unique to this tier. Ballistic weapons use the same models as EXALT ballistic weapons in vanilla.

===Beam Lasers===
Early beam lasers form the second tier of weapons, and all carry a small inherent accuracy bonus, which can make them good 'training' weapons for inexperienced troopers or as aiming aid for rocketeers in their aiming of explosives (much like you might otherwise issue them regular carbines). They also have a little more firepower than Ballistic weapons, but it still won't be enough in the long run. Although skipping laser weaponry in vanilla is a viable and at times easy-to-pull-off gambit, in long war expense of gauss weapons combined with the tighter economy makes this less appealing, and the aim bonus beam lasers confer makes them arguably better early game than gauss anyway. Beam Lasers use the same visuals as EXALT laser weapons in vanilla.

===Gauss===
Gauss weapons return to ballistic projectiles but elerium power sources make man-portable magnetic accelerators practical; combined with alloy-based projectiles, it's a recipe for pretty formidable personal weaponry. In general Gauss weapons have a larger clip size, which can make this tier of weapons preferable for soldiers that has ammo-intensive perks or abilities such as flush ,suppression, collateral damage, in the zone, close combat specialist, close encounters, light 'em up, and rapid fire. Uniquely, the sniper rifle of this tier--the Gauss long rifle--grants snipers the HEAT ammo perk, whom otherwise can't obtain said perk normally. This makes Gauss snipers a powerful counter to mechanical leaders/bosses whom can have over 50 health and a staggering amount of damage reduction; though in return, the Gauss long rifle has a rather inconvenient clip size of 1. Gauss weapons use the original XCOM weapon models.

Note: There are plans to give this tier of weaponry additional damage reduction penetration in '''future editions''' of the mod. (b14)

===Pulse Lasers===
Refining and enhancing laser technology allows for the development of pulse laser weaponry, another step up in terms of firepower. Pulse laser weapons have a bonus to their critical hit chance, which might make them more preferable to laser weapons in the hands of crit-focused assaults and snipers. They use the same visuals as XCOM-built laser weaponry.
===Plasma===
Plasma tier weapons are the most powerful in terms of raw damage, but also expensive and hard to obtain; building them requires captured alien weapons as production components... which means you'll have to stun and capture aliens for every weapon you want to build.
== Weapon types==
Long War adds many new types of primary and secondary weapon. Most of these weapon types have a corresponding weapon at each technology level. The primary weapon types are, in descending order of average damage: '''SHIV/MEC Primary Weapons''' > '''Light Machine Guns''' and '''Shotguns''' > '''Heavy Rifles''', '''Marksman/Sniper rifles''' and '''Squad Automatic Weapon''' > '''Assault Rifles''' > '''Carbines''' and '''Submachine Guns'''. In general, the more powerful a weapon is the more unwieldy it is as well, and that will reflect in aim and mobility penalties/bonuses. The MEC version of heavy machine guns have a unusually large deviation of +/-4. And finally Shotguns' damage is severely impeded by damage reduction.

=== '''Pistols''' ===
The default sidearm, very similar to vanilla pistols, except that they do not have unlimited ammo. Pistols have shorter effective range than assault rifles unless the soldier possesses the Gunslinger perk.
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:Pistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pistol''' || 1-3 || 0% || 3-4 || 0 || 0 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} ||Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 0 ||None ||colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Laser Pistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]] '''Laser Pistol''' || 2-4 || 0% || 4-5 || +7 || 0 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}}|| Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer|| 15|| Beam weapons || 30 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 10
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Pistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]] '''Plasma Pistol''' || 3-5 || 0% || 5-7 || 0 || 0 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}}|| Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 90|| Compact Plasma Weapons || 175 || 25 || 20 || 1 || 12
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|}

==='''Machine Pistols'''===
A more damaging sidearm, but at the cost of added weight and decreased aim when drawn. Machine Pistols also tend to have very limited ammo. Useful for a Gunslinger soldier to finish off targets.
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:Machine pistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Machine Pistol''' || 2-4 || 0% || 4-5 || -10 || -1 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 0|| None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Heater Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heater''' || 3-5 || 0% || 5-7 || -3 || -1 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 15|| Beam weapons || 30 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Gauss Autopistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Autopistol''' || 3-5 || 0% || 5-7 || -10 || -1 || 3 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 28 || Gauss Weapons || 40 || 4 || 1 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Blaster Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Blaster''' || 4-6 || 10% || 6-9 || -10 || -1 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 60 || Pulse Lasers || 80 || 12 || 8 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Mauler Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Mauler''' || 4-8 || 0% || 8-11 || -10 || -2 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 90 || Compact Plasma Weapons || 230|| 30 || 20 || 1 || 12
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|}

==='''SMG'''===
SMGs confer +3 mobility bonus and have the lowest damage and crit chance of all the primary weapons. Unlike Carbines, SMGs do not grant bonus accuracy. They're very useful for classes that need to reposition quickly to bring explosives and other area weapons against enemies, making them a good choice for Rocketeers and Engineers. Scouts, who might use the added mobility usually require something that packs a punch, like a Shotgun or any Rifle.
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:SMG Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Submachine Gun''' || 2-4 || 0% || 4-5 || 0 || +3 || 2 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 0|| None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Laser Shatterray Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Shatterray''' || 3-5 || 0% || 5-7 || +7 || +3 || 2 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 15 || Beam Weapons || 35 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Gauss Stuttergun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Stuttergun''' || 4-6 || 0% || 6-9 || 0 || +3 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || All || 28 || Gauss Weapons || 75 || 6 || 1 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Pulse Stengun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Stengun''' || 4-8 || 10% || 8-11 || 0 || +3 || 2 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 62 || Pulse Lasers || 120 || 15 || 10 || 0 ||12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Stormgun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Stormgun''' || 5-9 || 0% || 9-12 || 0 || +3 || 2 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 90 || Plasma Weapons || 200 || 30 || 20 || 1 || 12
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|}

==='''Carbines'''===
Carbines are light versions of assault rifles. They have reduced damage and crit chance, but confer +1 mobility and an accuracy bonus. They are ideal for inexperienced troops and those that need to move quickly, but experienced troops should switch to other weapons quickly as tougher aliens begin to appear.
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!colspan="18" | Carbines
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:Assault Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Assault Carbine''' || 2-4 || 5% || 4-5 || +7 || +1 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Laser Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Carbine''' || 3-5 || 5% || 5-7 || +15 || +1 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 15 || Beam weapons || 40 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Gauss Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Carbine''' || 4-6 || 5% || 6-9 || +7 || +1 || 4 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || All || 30 || Gauss Weapons || 95 || 8 || 2 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Pulse Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Carbine''' || 4-8 || 15% || 8-11 || +7 || +1 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 63 || Pulse Lasers || 180 || 15 || 15 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Carbine''' || 5-9 || 5% || 9-12 || +7 || +1 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 90 || Plasma Weapons || 280 || 30 || 25 || 1 || 12
|-
|}

==='''Assault Rifles'''===
These are the baseline assault rifles, similar to their vanilla counterparts. They have a respectable balance of firepower and accuracy. 
The Arc Rifle is a special Rifle that grants Disabling Shot with the regular 2-turn cooldown, although it does not confer the snap shot perk. It has low damage and ammo capacity. Useful early on for raiding small UFO's with capable soldiers and plenty of arc thrower uses.

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!colspan="18" | Assault Rifles
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:Assault Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Assault Rifle''' || 3-5 || 10% || 5-7 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Laser Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Rifle''' || 4-6 || 10% || 6-9 || +7 || 0 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 15 || Beam weapons || 50 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Gauss Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Rifle''' || 4-8 || 10% || 8-11 || 0 || 0 || 4 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || All || 30 || Gauss Weapons || 100 || 12 || 2 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image:Pulse Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Rifle''' || 5-9 || 20% || 9-12 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 60 || Pulse Lasers || 200 || 20 || 15 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Rifle''' || 6-10 || 10% || 10-14 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer|| 95 || Advanced Plasma Weapons || 380 || 40 || 30 || 2 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Arc Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Arc Rifle''' || 1-3 || 0% || 3-4 || 0 || 0 || 2 || 200 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Grants Disabling Shot, Cannot fire after any costly action || All except Gunners and Rocketeers || 25 || Xenoneurology New Combat Systems || 60 || 2 || 2 || 0 || 10
|-
|}

==='''Battle Rifle'''===
Battle Rifles are heavier versions of assault rifles. They do increased damage and have one additional burst relative to assault rifles, but carry a mobility penalty and a hefty aim penalty. They are best used by experienced soldiers who can aim well enough to offset the penalty (Infantry in particular, thanks to their high aim progression and ability to fire multiple times per turn cycle).
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! colspan="18" | Battle Rifles
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:Battle Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Battle Rifle''' || 4-6 || 10% || 6-9 || -15 || -1 || 4 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Heavy Laser Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heavy Laser Rifle''' || 4-8|| 15% || 8-11 || -8 || -1 || 4 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 20 || Advanced Beam Lasers || 70 || 4 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Heavy Gauss Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heavy Gauss Rifle''' || 5-9 || 15% || 9-12 || -15 || -1 || 5 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 40 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 140 || 15 || 5 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image:Heavy Pulse Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heavy Pulse Rifle''' || 6-10 || 25% || 10-14 || -15 || -1 || 4 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 67 || Advanced Pulse Lasers || 220 || 25 || 20 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Heavy Plasma Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heavy Plasma Rifle''' || 7-11 || 15% || 11-16 || -15 || -1 || 4 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 105 || Heavy Plasma Weapons || 400 || 40 || 28 || 2 || 18
|-
|}

==='''Shotgun'''===
Long War shotgun-type weapons are similar to their vanilla counterparts. High damage, high crit chance, short range. Shotguns are extremely accurate up close, but suffer from very poor accuracy over longer ranges (even with Cinematic Mode enabled). As such, they work best with highly mobile classes or those that only ever expect to engage enemies up close, like Assault and Scout soldiers. 

The sawed-off shotgun, a point-blank range, high damage sidearm with -1 mobility. It has only one shot, and this cannot be increased by ammo capacity upgrades.
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!colspan="18" | Shotguns
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Shotgun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Shotgun''' || 4-8 || 20% || 8-11 || 0 || 0 || 5 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage Reduction]] penalty || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Sawed-off Shotgun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Sawed-Off Shotgun''' || 4-8 || 5% || 8-11 || -15 || -1 || 1 || 3 || {{No Icon}} || Sidearm. Confers -1 mobility. Can only be used at point blank range. || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 1 || None || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 1
|-align=center
|[[Image: Scatter Laser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Scatter Laser''' || 5-9 || 20% || 9-12 || +7 || 0 || 3 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage reduction]] penalty
| Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 18 || Advanced Beam Weapons || 80 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Alloy Cannon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Alloy Cannon''' || 6-10 || 20% || 10-14 || 0 || 0 || 4 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage reduction]] penalty .33 DR reduction
| Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 32 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 150 || 18 || 5 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Scatter Blaster Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Scatter Blaster''' || 7-11 || 30% || 11-16 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage reduction]] penalty
| Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 62 || Advanced Pulse Weapons || 250 || 20 || 20 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Reflex Cannon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Reflex Cannon''' || 7-13 || 20% || 13-18 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage reduction]] penalty
| Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 102 || Sectopod Autopsy || 500 || 40 || 30 || 2 || 18
|-
|}

==='''Sniper Rifle'''===
Sniper Rifles are mostly identical to their vanilla counterparts and can only be used by Snipers. They have very long range (double the range of vanilla, making it functionally infinite), but can only be fired if the user has not taken a costly, including reloading, unless they have Snap Shot training. Long War sniper rifles have higher penalties when used at short range than vanilla sniper rifles. Sniper rifles can only overwatch fire up to visual range, so consider steadying the weapon instead to end a turn without targets (especially if you don't have snapshot training).
{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | Sniper Rifles
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Sniper Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Sniper Rifle''' || 4-6 || 25% || 6-9 || 0 || -1 || 5 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty || Sniper || 0 ||None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Laser Sniper Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Sniper Rifle''' || 4-8 || 25% || 8-11 || +7 || -1 || 3 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty || Sniper || 18 || Advanced Beam Weapons || 50 || 4 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gauss Long Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Long Rifle''' || 5-9 || 10% || 9-12 || 0 || -2 || 1 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty Grants HEAT Ammo perk. .33 DR reduction || Sniper || 35 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 250 || 15 || 5 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Pulse Sniper Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Sniper Rifle''' || 6-10 || 35% || 10-14 || 0 || -1 || 3 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty || Sniper || 65 || Advanced Pulse Lasers || 250 || 25|| 20 || 0|| 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Plasma Sniper Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Sniper Rifle''' || 7-11 || 25% || 11-16 || 0 || -1 || 3 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty || Sniper || 105 || Precision Plasma Weapons || 500 || 45 || 30 || 2 || 18
|-
|}

==='''Marksman Rifle'''===
Marksman rifles are smaller versions of sniper rifles that can also only be used by the Sniper and Scout classes. They have longer range than most weapons, but considerably shorter than sniper rifles nonetheless can be fired after moving. Like sniper rifles, marksman rifles have hefty accuracy penalties when used at short range. Marksman rifles have the same base damage as sniper rifles, but considerably lower crit chance. Marksman rifles can fire reaction shots up to their maximum range, and with Precision Shot they have unlimited range. 
Marksman Rifles are better suited to close-quarters maps where mobility is essential. 
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!colspan="18" | Marksman Rifles
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Marksman Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Marksman Rifle''' || 4-6 || 15% || 6-9 || 0 || 0 || 5 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty || Scout, Sniper || 0 ||None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Laser Strike Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Strike Rifle''' || 4-8 || 15% || 8-11 || +7 || 0 || 3 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty || Scout, Sniper || 18 || Advanced Beam Lasers || 50 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image: Alloy Strike Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Alloy Strike Rifle''' || 5-9 || 15% || 9-12 || 0 || 0 || 4 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty .33 DR reduction || Scout, Sniper || 35 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 120 || 15 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Blaster Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Blaster Rifle''' || 6-10 || 25% || 10-14 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty || Scout, Sniper || 67 || Advanced Pulse Lasers || 220 || 25 || 20 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Reflex Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Reflex Rifle''' || 7-11 || 15% || 11-16 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty || Scout, Sniper || 102 || Precision Plasma Weapons || 450 || 40 || 30 || 2 || 18
|-
|}

==='''Squad Automatic Weapon'''===
SAW-type weapons are the closest equivalent to vanilla LMGs in Long War. They can only be used by the Gunner class. SAWs have larger magazines and higher damage than assault rifles but confer a mobility penalty and can't be steadied. They allow faster movement than LMGs, but have less ammo and deal less damage. Suppressing a target with a SAW grants the Opportunist perk for any reaction fire triggered by enemy movement
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!colspan="18" | Squad Automatic Weapons
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: SAW Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''SAW''' || 4-6 || 0% || 6-9 || 0 || -1 || 6 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Gunner || 0 ||None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Autolaser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Autolaser''' || 4-8 || 0% || 8-11 || +7 || -1 || 6 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Gunner || 65 || Beam Weapons || 60 || 4 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gauss Autorifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Autorifle''' || 5-9 || 0% || 9-12 || 0 || -1 || 7 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || Gunner || 32 || Gauss Weapons || 110 || 15 || 2 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Pulse Autoblaster Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Autoblaster''' || 6-10 || 10% || 10-14 || 0 || -1 || 6 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Gunner || 65 || Pulse Lasers || 230 || 30 || 20 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Plasma Novagun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Novagun''' || 7-11 || 0% || 11-16 || 0 || -1 || 6 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Gunner || 98 || Advanced Plasma Weapons || 500 || 45 || 30 || 2 || 20
|-
|}

==='''Light Machine Gun'''===
LMG-type weapons are larger versions of SAWs and are also only usable by the Gunner class. LMGs carry a mobility penalty and can only fire if the user has not moved, but in return they have even larger magazines and even higher damage than SAWs. LMGs also have a slightly longer range than most weapons and confer the Squadsight perk on the user so they can make use of the extra range. When an LMG is used to suppress, the reaction shot taken if the target moves suffers no aim penalty and can crit. LMGs can only overwatch fire up to visual range. 
LMGs are ideal for heavy defensive situations where the Gunner can situate themselves securely and guard a given area using normal and reaction fire.
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!colspan="18" | Light Machine Guns
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: LMG Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''LMG''' || 4-8 || 5% || 8-11 || 0 || -2 || 8 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight || Gunner || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gatling Laser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gatling Laser''' || 5-9 || 5% || 9-12 || +7 || -2 || 8 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight || Gunner || 18 || Beam weapons || 60 || 5 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gauss Machine Gun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Machine Gun''' || 6-10 || 5% || 10-14 || 0 || -2 || 9 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight .33 DR reduction || Gunner || 40 || Gauss Weapons || 140 || 16 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gatling Pulser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gatling Pulser''' || 7-11 || 15% || 11-16 || 0 || -2 || 8 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight || Gunner || 64 || Pulse Lasers || 215 || 35 || 22 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Plasma Dragon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Dragon''' || 7-13 || 5% || 13-18 || 0 || -2 || 8 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight || Gunner || 105 || Heavy Plasma Weapons || 500 || 48 || 32 || 2 || 20
|-
|}

==='''Rocket Launchers'''===
Sometimes you just have to make a good first-time impression. Sometimes you just happen to not have the right key for a door. Sometimes you just want to give those aliens a running start on their way back - do not fret, Xcom have some portable rocket launchers for you! 

Rockets are fairly simple to use - pick youр ability, aim and fire. There is always some guaranteed scatter which is limited by the soldier's Aim and Abilities. While mostly used by Rocketeers, Engineers also have the ability at later stages of the game to carry a rocket launcher. Carrying one forfeits your sidearm. For more information regarding rockets read bellow.
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!colspan="18" | Rocket Launchers
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Rocket Launcher Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Rocket Launcher''' || 4-10 || 0% || - || 0 || -1 || 1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Rocketeer|| 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Recoilless Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Recoilless Rifle''' || 6-12 || 0% || - || 0 || -1 || 1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || .33 DR reduction|| Rocketeer|| 35 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 100 || 25 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Blaster Launcher Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Blaster Launcher''' || 8-16 || 0% || - || 0 || -2 || 1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Rocketeer|| 110 || Fusion Weapons || 600 || 60 || 65 || 2 || 20
|-
|}

==='''MEC Primary Weapons'''===
MEC weapons (unsurprisingly) can only be used by MECs. They are high damage and have extended range equal to marksman rifles and LMGs, but do not confer the squadsight perk, so only MEC classes that have squadsight can use the extra range. Even MECs with squadsight can only overwatch fire up to visual range.
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!colspan="18" | MEC Primary Weapons
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Minigun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Minigun''' || 5-9 || 10% || 9-12 || 0 || 0 || 2 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || - || MEC || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Laser Lance Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Lance''' || 7-11 || 10% || 11-16 || +7 || 0 || 3 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || - || MEC || 20 || Advanced Beam Lasers || 80 || 5 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Railgun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Railgun''' || 7-13 || 10% || 13-18 || 0 || 0 || 4 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || .33 DR reduction, no suppression || MEC || 35 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 120 || 25 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Pulse Lance Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Lance''' || 7-13 || 20% || 13-18 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || - || MEC || 65 || Advanced Pulse Lasers || 240 || 35 || 24 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Particle Cannon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Particle Cannon''' || 8-14 || 10% || 14-19 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || No suppression || MEC || 105 || Heavy Plasma Weapons || 450 || 45 || 40 || 10 || 14
|-
|}

==='''MEC Seconday Weapons'''===

With each upgrade of the MEC suit the number of utility items decreases while the number of secondary weapon systems increases. As such, they can play a vital role in area control, squad support or neutralizing targets. Be advised that unlike vanilla in Long War you have to build the systems yourself and they do cost a lot of meld.

{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | MEC Secondary Weapons
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Flamethrower Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Flamethrower''' || 4-10 || 0% || 8-11 || - || -1 || 2 || Cone || {{No Icon}} || Incendiary area attack causing panic || MEC || 20 || MEC Warfare Systems || 85 || 0 || 0 || 5 || 7
|-align=center
|[[Image: Kinetic Strike Module Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Kinetic Strike Module''' || 9-15 || 0% || 15-21 || - || -1 || ∞ || Melee || {{No Icon}} || Close combat weapon || MEC || 22 || Floater Autopsy || 200 || 15 || 2 || 8 || 10
|-align=center
|[[Image: Grenade Launcher Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Grenade Launcher''' || 3-7 || 0% || - || - || -1 || 2 || 17 || {{No Icon}} || Indirect-fire Grenade Launcher || MEC || 35 || Gauss Weapons || 150 || 12 || 0 || 6 || 10
|-align=center
|[[Image: Proximity Mine Launcher Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Prox. Mine Launcher''' || 6-12 || 0% || - || - || -1 || 3 || 17 || {{No Icon}} || Fires Proximity Mines || MEC || 40 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 150 || 12 || 0 || 10 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Restorative Mist Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Restorative Mist''' || - || 0% || - || - || -1 || 1 || 17 || {{No Icon}} || Heals allies in an area || MEC || 28 || Thin Man Autopsy || 120 || 0 || 0 || 10 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Electro Pulse Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Electro Pulse''' || 3-9 || 0% || - || - || -1 || ∞ || 17 || {{No Icon}} || Stuns robots. 3 turn cooldown || MEC || 85 || EMP Weapons || 180 || 15 || 15 || 15 || 14
|-
|}

==='''SHIV Turrets'''===
Similar to the SAW but considerably more powerful, these heavy and expensive guns are the only weapons that the SHIV can use. While they suffer from the low base aim of all SHIV units, they can shred through enemies at close range, restrict enemy movement options when in overwatch mode thanks to certain equipment, and can deal massive damage to mechanized forces when equipped with HEAT ammo.
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
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!colspan="18" | SHIV Turrets
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Autocannon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Autocannon''' || 5-9 || 10% || 9-12 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || SHIV || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Superheavy Laser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Superheavy Laser''' || 6-10 || 10% || 10-14 || +7 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || SHIV || 20 || Advanced Beam Lasers || 80|| 5 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Sentry Gun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Sentry Gun''' || 7-11 || 10% || 11-16 || 0 || 0 || 4+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || SHIV || 35 || Gauss Weapons || 120|| 15 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Superheavy Pulser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Superheavy Pulser''' || 7-13 || 20% || 13-18 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || SHIV || 65 || Pulse Lasers || 300|| 35 || 25 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Superheavy Plasma Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Superheavy Plasma''' || 8-14 || 10% || 14-19 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || SHIV || 100 || Vehicular Plasma Weapons|| 500|| 45 || 40 ||3 || 21
|-
|}

== Steadying ==
Many weapons have an extra action available: Steady Weapon. This is a standard action, which will end the turn when used, which grants +20 aim for the next shot. The bonus is discarded if the soldier moves or switches weapon. This essentially allows a soldier to fire a carefully aimed shot over two turns. The use of perks such as '''Light 'Em Up''' and '''Double Tap''' only apply the bonus to the first shot taken. Note that sniper rifles can be steadied after moving, even if the operator cannot fire them. Steady Weapon's Aim bonus also applies to fired rockets, reducing rocket scatter.

== Explosives ==
In Long War explosives no longer do fixed damage to all targets in their radius. The further a target is from the center of the blast, the less damage it will take. This also applies to cover and cover in general is a little tougher than in vanilla.

== Rockets ==
Long War uses a revamped system for rocket accuracy. Aim is used when firing rockets to determine the chance of them landing on target, rather than the fixed 90% chance in vanilla. Rather than the vanilla behavior of a missed rocket veering wildly off course, Long War rockets never "miss" but will veer off course a random amount based on the soldier's Aim, with higher Aim giving less scatter. Lower range means less scatter, and the soldier achieving 120 Aim yields no scatter at any range. Rockets can also be fired after moving, but with increased scatter and reduced range. Rockets can not change height through scatter.

The hit chance shown while aiming is not a literal % hit chance, nor is it the maximum scatter distance. "Scatter" instead indicates the standard deviation on the X and Y axis. You can expect 68% of your rockets to hit within the standard deviation, 95% to hit within 2 times the standard deviation, and 99.7% to hit within 3 times the standard deviation. Rockets can exceed even this degree of deviation, but the chance is negligible.

Unblocked (no "Shot is Blocked" warning) rockets that veer off course will travel through most destructible terrain to their destination, destroying it in the process. If they encounter an allied or enemy pawn, they will detonate immediately.

[[Category: Long War]]

Weapons (Long War)

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{{CheckOutdated (Long War)|b14}}
Long War makes several changes to weapons:
* There are five tiers of weapons: Conventional/Ballistic, Beam Laser, Gauss, Pulse Laser, Plasma.
* There are several additional types of primary and secondary weapon available in each tier.
* Many weapons can be Steadied as an action to improve aim for the next turn.
* Explosives no longer do fixed damage, and their damage reduces the further a target is from the center of the blast.
* Rocket launchers use a revamped accuracy system using the soldier's aim.
==Weapon tiers==
===Conventional/Ballistic===
These are the basic weapons you start with - and whilst they're okay to begin with, they're not going to be up to scratch in the long run. The sawed-off shotgun is unique to this tier. Ballistic weapons use the same models as EXALT ballistic weapons in vanilla.

===Beam Lasers===
Early beam lasers form the second tier of weapons, and all carry a small inherent accuracy bonus, which can make them good 'training' weapons for inexperienced troopers or as aiming aid for rocketeers in their aiming of explosives (much like you might otherwise issue them regular carbines). They also have a little more firepower than Ballistic weapons, but it still won't be enough in the long run. Although skipping laser weaponry in vanilla is a viable and at times easy-to-pull-off gambit, in long war expense of gauss weapons combined with the tighter economy makes this less appealing, and the aim bonus beam lasers confer makes them arguably better early game than gauss anyway. Beam Lasers use the same visuals as EXALT laser weapons in vanilla.

===Gauss===
Gauss weapons return to ballistic projectiles but elerium power sources make man-portable magnetic accelerators practical; combined with alloy-based projectiles, it's a recipe for pretty formidable personal weaponry. In general Gauss weapons have a larger clip size, which can make this tier of weapons preferable for soldiers that has ammo-intensive perks or abilities such as flush ,suppression, collateral damage, in the zone, close combat specialist, close encounters, light 'em up, and rapid fire. Uniquely, the sniper rifle of this tier--the Gauss long rifle--grants snipers the HEAT ammo perk, whom otherwise can't obtain said perk normally. This makes Gauss snipers a powerful counter to mechanical leaders/bosses whom can have over 50 health and a staggering amount of damage reduction; though in return, the Gauss long rifle has a rather inconvenient clip size of 1. Gauss weapons use the original XCOM weapon models.

Note: There are plans to give this tier of weaponry additional damage reduction penetration in '''future editions''' of the mod. (b14)

===Pulse Lasers===
Refining and enhancing laser technology allows for the development of pulse laser weaponry, another step up in terms of firepower. Pulse laser weapons have a bonus to their critical hit chance, which might make them more preferable to laser weapons in the hands of crit-focused assaults and snipers. They use the same visuals as XCOM-built laser weaponry.
===Plasma===
Plasma tier weapons are the most powerful in terms of raw damage, but also expensive and hard to obtain; building them requires captured alien weapons as production components... which means you'll have to stun and capture aliens for every weapon you want to build.
== Weapon types==
Long War adds many new types of primary and secondary weapon. Most of these weapon types have a corresponding weapon at each technology level. The primary weapon types are, in descending order of average damage: '''SHIV/MEC Primary Weapons''' > '''Light Machine Guns''' and '''Shotguns''' > '''Heavy Rifles''', '''Marksman/Sniper rifles''' and '''Squad Automatic Weapon''' > '''Assault Rifles''' > '''Carbines''' and '''Submachine Guns'''. In general, the more powerful a weapon is the more unwieldy it is as well, and that will reflect in aim and mobility penalties/bonuses. The MEC version of heavy machine guns have a unusually large deviation of +/-4. And finally Shotguns' damage is severely impeded by damage reduction.

=== '''Pistols''' ===
The default sidearm, very similar to vanilla pistols, except that they do not have unlimited ammo. Pistols have shorter effective range than assault rifles unless the soldier possesses the Gunslinger perk.
{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | Pistols
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:Pistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pistol''' || 1-3 || 0% || 3-4 || 0 || 0 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} ||Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 0 ||None ||colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Laser Pistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]] '''Laser Pistol''' || 2-4 || 0% || 4-5 || +7 || 0 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}}|| Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer|| 15|| Beam weapons || 30 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 10
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Pistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]] '''Plasma Pistol''' || 3-5 || 0% || 5-7 || 0 || 0 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}}|| Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 90|| Compact Plasma Weapons || 175 || 25 || 20 || 1 || 12
|-
|}

==='''Machine Pistols'''===
A more damaging sidearm, but at the cost of added weight and decreased aim when drawn. Machine Pistols also tend to have very limited ammo. Useful for a Gunslinger soldier to finish off targets.
{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | Machine Pistols
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:Machine pistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Machine Pistol''' || 2-4 || 0% || 4-5 || -10 || -1 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 0|| None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Heater Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heater''' || 3-5 || 0% || 5-7 || -3 || -1 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 15|| Beam weapons || 30 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Gauss Autopistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Autopistol''' || 3-5 || 0% || 5-7 || -10 || -1 || 3 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 28 || Gauss Weapons || 40 || 4 || 1 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Blaster Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Blaster''' || 4-6 || 10% || 6-9 || -10 || -1 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 60 || Pulse Lasers || 80 || 12 || 8 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Mauler Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Mauler''' || 4-8 || 0% || 8-11 || -10 || -2 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 90 || Compact Plasma Weapons || 230|| 30 || 20 || 1 || 12
|-
|}

==='''SMG'''===
SMGs confer +3 mobility bonus and have the lowest damage and crit chance of all the primary weapons. Unlike Carbines, SMGs do not grant bonus accuracy. They're very useful for classes that need to reposition quickly to bring explosives and other area weapons against enemies, making them a good choice for Rocketeers and Engineers. Scouts, who might use the added mobility usually require something that packs a punch, like a Shotgun or any Rifle.
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:SMG Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Submachine Gun''' || 2-4 || 0% || 4-5 || 0 || +3 || 2 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 0|| None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Laser Shatterray Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Shatterray''' || 3-5 || 0% || 5-7 || +7 || +3 || 2 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 15 || Beam Weapons || 35 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Gauss Stuttergun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Stuttergun''' || 4-6 || 0% || 6-9 || 0 || +3 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || All || 28 || Gauss Weapons || 75 || 6 || 1 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Pulse Stengun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Stengun''' || 4-8 || 10% || 8-11 || 0 || +3 || 2 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 62 || Pulse Lasers || 120 || 15 || 10 || 0 ||12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Stormgun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Stormgun''' || 5-9 || 0% || 9-12 || 0 || +3 || 2 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 90 || Plasma Weapons || 200 || 30 || 20 || 1 || 12
|-
|}

==='''Carbines'''===
Carbines are light versions of assault rifles. They have reduced damage and crit chance, but confer +1 mobility and an accuracy bonus. They are ideal for inexperienced troops and those that need to move quickly, but experienced troops should switch to other weapons quickly as tougher aliens begin to appear.
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
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!colspan="18" | Carbines
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:Assault Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Assault Carbine''' || 2-4 || 5% || 4-5 || +7 || +1 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Laser Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Carbine''' || 3-5 || 5% || 5-7 || +15 || +1 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 15 || Beam weapons || 40 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Gauss Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Carbine''' || 4-6 || 5% || 6-9 || +7 || +1 || 4 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || All || 30 || Gauss Weapons || 95 || 8 || 2 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Pulse Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Carbine''' || 4-8 || 15% || 8-11 || +7 || +1 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 63 || Pulse Lasers || 180 || 15 || 15 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Carbine''' || 5-9 || 5% || 9-12 || +7 || +1 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 90 || Plasma Weapons || 280 || 30 || 25 || 1 || 12
|-
|}

==='''Assault Rifles'''===
These are the baseline assault rifles, similar to their vanilla counterparts. They have a respectable balance of firepower and accuracy. 
The Arc Rifle is a special Rifle that grants Disabling Shot with the regular 2-turn cooldown, although it does not confer the snap shot perk. It has low damage and ammo capacity. Useful early on for raiding small UFO's with capable soldiers and plenty of arc thrower uses.

{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | Assault Rifles
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:Assault Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Assault Rifle''' || 3-5 || 10% || 5-7 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Laser Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Rifle''' || 4-6 || 10% || 6-9 || +7 || 0 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 15 || Beam weapons || 50 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Gauss Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Rifle''' || 4-8 || 10% || 8-11 || 0 || 0 || 4 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || All || 30 || Gauss Weapons || 100 || 12 || 2 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image:Pulse Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Rifle''' || 5-9 || 20% || 9-12 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 60 || Pulse Lasers || 200 || 20 || 15 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Rifle''' || 6-10 || 10% || 10-14 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer|| 95 || Advanced Plasma Weapons || 380 || 40 || 30 || 2 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Arc Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Arc Rifle''' || 1-3 || 0% || 3-4 || 0 || 0 || 2 || 200 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Grants Disabling Shot, Cannot fire after any costly action || All except Gunners and Rocketeers || 25 || Xenoneurology New Combat Systems || 60 || 2 || 2 || 0 || 10
|-
|}

==='''Battle Rifle'''===
Battle Rifles are heavier versions of assault rifles. They do increased damage and have one additional burst relative to assault rifles, but carry a mobility penalty and a hefty aim penalty. They are best used by experienced soldiers who can aim well enough to offset the penalty (Infantry in particular, thanks to their high aim progression and ability to fire multiple times per turn cycle).
{| class="wikitable"
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! colspan="18" | Battle Rifles
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:Battle Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Battle Rifle''' || 4-6 || 10% || 6-9 || -15 || -1 || 4 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Heavy Laser Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heavy Laser Rifle''' || 4-8|| 15% || 8-11 || -8 || -1 || 4 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 20 || Advanced Beam Lasers || 70 || 4 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Heavy Gauss Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heavy Gauss Rifle''' || 5-9 || 15% || 9-12 || -15 || -1 || 5 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 40 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 140 || 15 || 5 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image:Heavy Pulse Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heavy Pulse Rifle''' || 6-10 || 25% || 10-14 || -15 || -1 || 4 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 67 || Advanced Pulse Lasers || 220 || 25 || 20 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Heavy Plasma Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heavy Plasma Rifle''' || 7-11 || 15% || 11-16 || -15 || -1 || 4 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 105 || Heavy Plasma Weapons || 400 || 40 || 28 || 2 || 18
|-
|}

==='''Shotgun'''===
Long War shotgun-type weapons are similar to their vanilla counterparts. High damage, high crit chance, short range. Shotguns are extremely accurate up close, but suffer from very poor accuracy over longer ranges (even with Cinematic Mode enabled). As such, they work best with highly mobile classes or those that only ever expect to engage enemies up close, like Assault and Scout soldiers. 

The sawed-off shotgun, a point-blank range, high damage sidearm with -1 mobility. It has only one shot, and this cannot be increased by ammo capacity upgrades.
{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | Shotguns
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Shotgun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Shotgun''' || 4-8 || 20% || 8-11 || 0 || 0 || 5 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage Reduction]] penalty || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Sawed-off Shotgun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Sawed-Off Shotgun''' || 4-8 || 5% || 8-11 || -15 || -1 || 1 || 3 || {{No Icon}} || Sidearm. Confers -1 mobility. Can only be used at point blank range. || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 1 || None || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 1
|-align=center
|[[Image: Scatter Laser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Scatter Laser''' || 5-9 || 20% || 9-12 || +7 || 0 || 3 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage reduction]] penalty
| Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 18 || Advanced Beam Weapons || 80 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Alloy Cannon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Alloy Cannon''' || 6-10 || 20% || 10-14 || 0 || 0 || 4 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage reduction]] penalty .33 DR reduction
| Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 32 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 150 || 18 || 5 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Scatter Blaster Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Scatter Blaster''' || 7-11 || 30% || 11-16 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage reduction]] penalty
| Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 62 || Advanced Pulse Weapons || 250 || 20 || 20 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Reflex Cannon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Reflex Cannon''' || 7-13 || 20% || 13-18 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage reduction]] penalty
| Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 102 || Sectopod Autopsy || 500 || 40 || 30 || 2 || 18
|-
|}

==='''Sniper Rifle'''===
Sniper Rifles are mostly identical to their vanilla counterparts and can only be used by Snipers. They have very long range (double the range of vanilla, making it functionally infinite), but can only be fired if the user has not taken a costly, including reloading, unless they have Snap Shot training. Long War sniper rifles have higher penalties when used at short range than vanilla sniper rifles. Sniper rifles can only overwatch fire up to visual range, so consider steadying the weapon instead to end a turn without targets (especially if you don't have snapshot training).
{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | Sniper Rifles
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Sniper Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Sniper Rifle''' || 4-6 || 25% || 6-9 || 0 || -1 || 5 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty || Sniper || 0 ||None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Laser Sniper Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Sniper Rifle''' || 4-8 || 25% || 8-11 || +7 || -1 || 3 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty || Sniper || 18 || Advanced Beam Weapons || 50 || 4 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gauss Long Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Long Rifle''' || 5-9 || 10% || 9-12 || 0 || -2 || 1 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty Grants HEAT Ammo perk. .33 DR reduction || Sniper || 35 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 250 || 15 || 5 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Pulse Sniper Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Sniper Rifle''' || 6-10 || 35% || 10-14 || 0 || -1 || 3 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty || Sniper || 65 || Advanced Pulse Lasers || 250 || 25|| 20 || 0|| 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Plasma Sniper Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Sniper Rifle''' || 7-11 || 25% || 11-16 || 0 || -1 || 3 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty || Sniper || 105 || Precision Plasma Weapons || 500 || 45 || 30 || 2 || 18
|-
|}

==='''Marksman Rifle'''===
Marksman rifles are smaller versions of sniper rifles that can also only be used by the Sniper and Scout classes. They have longer range than most weapons, but considerably shorter than sniper rifles nonetheless can be fired after moving. Like sniper rifles, marksman rifles have hefty accuracy penalties when used at short range. Marksman rifles have the same base damage as sniper rifles, but considerably lower crit chance. Marksman rifles can fire reaction shots up to their maximum range, and with Precision Shot they have unlimited range. 
Marksman Rifles are better suited to close-quarters maps where mobility is essential. 
{| class="wikitable"
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|-
!colspan="18" | Marksman Rifles
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Marksman Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Marksman Rifle''' || 4-6 || 15% || 6-9 || 0 || 0 || 5 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty || Scout, Sniper || 0 ||None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Laser Strike Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Strike Rifle''' || 4-8 || 15% || 8-11 || +7 || 0 || 3 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty || Scout, Sniper || 18 || Advanced Beam Lasers || 50 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image: Alloy Strike Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Alloy Strike Rifle''' || 5-9 || 15% || 9-12 || 0 || 0 || 4 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty .33 DR reduction || Scout, Sniper || 35 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 120 || 15 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Blaster Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Blaster Rifle''' || 6-10 || 25% || 10-14 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty || Scout, Sniper || 67 || Advanced Pulse Lasers || 220 || 25 || 20 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Reflex Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Reflex Rifle''' || 7-11 || 15% || 11-16 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty || Scout, Sniper || 102 || Precision Plasma Weapons || 450 || 40 || 30 || 2 || 18
|-
|}

==='''Squad Automatic Weapon'''===
SAW-type weapons are the closest equivalent to vanilla LMGs in Long War. They can only be used by the Gunner class. SAWs have larger magazines and higher damage than assault rifles but confer a mobility penalty and can't be steadied. They allow faster movement than LMGs, but have less ammo and deal less damage. Suppressing a target with a SAW grants the Opportunist perk for any reaction fire triggered by enemy movement
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
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!colspan="18" | Squad Automatic Weapons
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: SAW Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''SAW''' || 4-6 || 0% || 6-9 || 0 || -1 || 6 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Gunner || 0 ||None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Autolaser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Autolaser''' || 4-8 || 0% || 8-11 || +7 || -1 || 6 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Gunner || 65 || Beam Weapons || 60 || 4 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gauss Autorifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Autorifle''' || 5-9 || 0% || 9-12 || 0 || -1 || 7 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || Gunner || 32 || Gauss Weapons || 110 || 15 || 2 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Pulse Autoblaster Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Autoblaster''' || 6-10 || 10% || 10-14 || 0 || -1 || 6 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Gunner || 65 || Pulse Lasers || 230 || 30 || 20 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Plasma Novagun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Novagun''' || 7-11 || 0% || 11-16 || 0 || -1 || 6 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Gunner || 98 || Advanced Plasma Weapons || 500 || 45 || 30 || 2 || 20
|-
|}

==='''Light Machine Gun'''===
LMG-type weapons are larger versions of SAWs and are also only usable by the Gunner class. LMGs carry a mobility penalty and can only fire if the user has not moved, but in return they have even larger magazines and even higher damage than SAWs. LMGs also have a slightly longer range than most weapons and confer the Squadsight perk on the user so they can make use of the extra range. When an LMG is used to suppress, the reaction shot taken if the target moves suffers no aim penalty and can crit. LMGs can only overwatch fire up to visual range. 
LMGs are ideal for heavy defensive situations where the Gunner can situate themselves securely and guard a given area using normal and reaction fire.
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
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!colspan="18" | Light Machine Guns
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: LMG Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''LMG''' || 4-8 || 5% || 8-11 || 0 || -2 || 8 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight || Gunner || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gatling Laser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gatling Laser''' || 5-9 || 5% || 9-12 || +7 || -2 || 8 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight || Gunner || 18 || Beam weapons || 60 || 5 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gauss Machine Gun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Machine Gun''' || 6-10 || 5% || 10-14 || 0 || -2 || 9 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight .33 DR reduction || Gunner || 40 || Gauss Weapons || 140 || 16 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gatling Pulser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gatling Pulser''' || 7-11 || 15% || 11-16 || 0 || -2 || 8 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight || Gunner || 64 || Pulse Lasers || 215 || 35 || 22 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Plasma Dragon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Dragon''' || 7-13 || 5% || 13-18 || 0 || -2 || 8 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight || Gunner || 105 || Heavy Plasma Weapons || 500 || 48 || 32 || 2 || 20
|-
|}

==='''Rocket Launchers'''===
Sometimes you just have to make a good first-time impression. Sometimes you just happen to not have the right key for a door. Sometimes you just want to give those aliens a running start on their way back - do not fret, Xcom have some portable rocket launchers for you! 

Rockets are fairly simple to use - pick youр ability, aim and fire. There is always some guaranteed scatter which is limited by the soldier's Aim and Abilities. While mostly used by Rocketeers, Engineers also have the ability at later stages of the game to carry a rocket launcher. Carrying one forfeits your sidearm. For more information regarding rockets read bellow.
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
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!colspan="18" | Rocket Launchers
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Rocket Launcher Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Rocket Launcher''' || 4-10 || 0% || - || 0 || -1 || 1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Rocketeer|| 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Recoilless Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Recoilless Rifle''' || 6-12 || 0% || - || 0 || -1 || 1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || .33 DR reduction|| Rocketeer|| 35 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 100 || 25 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Blaster Launcher Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Blaster Launcher''' || 8-16 || 0% || - || 0 || -2 || 1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Rocketeer|| 110 || Fusion Weapons || 600 || 60 || 65 || 2 || 20
|-
|}

==='''MEC Primary Weapons'''===
MEC weapons (unsurprisingly) can only be used by MECs. They are high damage and have extended range equal to marksman rifles and LMGs, but do not confer the squadsight perk, so only MEC classes that have squadsight can use the extra range. Even MECs with squadsight can only overwatch fire up to visual range.
{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | MEC Primary Weapons
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Minigun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Minigun''' || 5-9 || 10% || 9-12 || 0 || 0 || 2+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || - || MEC || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Laser Lance Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Lance''' || 7-11 || 10% || 11-16 || +7 || 0 || 3+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || - || MEC || 20 || Advanced Beam Lasers || 80 || 5 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Railgun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Railgun''' || 7-13 || 10% || 13-18 || 0 || 0 || 4+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || .33 DR reduction, no suppression || MEC || 35 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 120 || 25 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Pulse Lance Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Lance''' || 7-13 || 20% || 13-18 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || - || MEC || 65 || Advanced Pulse Lasers || 240 || 35 || 24 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Particle Cannon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Particle Cannon''' || 8-14 || 10% || 14-19 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || No suppression || MEC || 105 || Heavy Plasma Weapons || 450 || 45 || 40 || 10 || 14
|-
|}

==='''MEC Seconday Weapons'''===

With each upgrade of the MEC suit the number of utility items decreases while the number of secondary weapon systems increases. As such, they can play a vital role in area control, squad support or neutralizing targets. Be advised that unlike vanilla in Long War you have to build the systems yourself and they do cost a lot of meld.

{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | MEC Secondary Weapons
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Flamethrower Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Flamethrower''' || 4-10 || 0% || 8-11 || - || -1 || 2 || Cone || {{No Icon}} || Incendiary area attack causing panic || MEC || 20 || MEC Warfare Systems || 85 || 0 || 0 || 5 || 7
|-align=center
|[[Image: Kinetic Strike Module Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Kinetic Strike Module''' || 9-15 || 0% || 15-21 || - || -1 || ∞ || Melee || {{No Icon}} || Close combat weapon || MEC || 22 || Floater Autopsy || 200 || 15 || 2 || 8 || 10
|-align=center
|[[Image: Grenade Launcher Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Grenade Launcher''' || 3-7 || 0% || - || - || -1 || 2 || 17 || {{No Icon}} || Indirect-fire Grenade Launcher || MEC || 35 || Gauss Weapons || 150 || 12 || 0 || 6 || 10
|-align=center
|[[Image: Proximity Mine Launcher Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Prox. Mine Launcher''' || 6-12 || 0% || - || - || -1 || 3 || 17 || {{No Icon}} || Fires Proximity Mines || MEC || 40 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 150 || 12 || 0 || 10 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Restorative Mist Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Restorative Mist''' || - || 0% || - || - || -1 || 1 || 17 || {{No Icon}} || Heals allies in an area || MEC || 28 || Thin Man Autopsy || 120 || 0 || 0 || 10 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Electro Pulse Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Electro Pulse''' || 3-9 || 0% || - || - || -1 || ∞ || 17 || {{No Icon}} || Stuns robots. 3 turn cooldown || MEC || 85 || EMP Weapons || 180 || 15 || 15 || 15 || 14
|-
|}

==='''SHIV Turrets'''===
Similar to the SAW but considerably more powerful, these heavy and expensive guns are the only weapons that the SHIV can use. While they suffer from the low base aim of all SHIV units, they can shred through enemies at close range, restrict enemy movement options when in overwatch mode thanks to certain equipment, and can deal massive damage to mechanized forces when equipped with HEAT ammo.
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
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!colspan="18" | SHIV Turrets
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Autocannon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Autocannon''' || 5-9 || 10% || 9-12 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || SHIV || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Superheavy Laser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Superheavy Laser''' || 6-10 || 10% || 10-14 || +7 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || SHIV || 20 || Advanced Beam Lasers || 80|| 5 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Sentry Gun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Sentry Gun''' || 7-11 || 10% || 11-16 || 0 || 0 || 4+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || SHIV || 35 || Gauss Weapons || 120|| 15 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Superheavy Pulser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Superheavy Pulser''' || 7-13 || 20% || 13-18 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || SHIV || 65 || Pulse Lasers || 300|| 35 || 25 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Superheavy Plasma Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Superheavy Plasma''' || 8-14 || 10% || 14-19 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || SHIV || 100 || Vehicular Plasma Weapons|| 500|| 45 || 40 ||3 || 21
|-
|}

== Steadying ==
Many weapons have an extra action available: Steady Weapon. This is a standard action, which will end the turn when used, which grants +20 aim for the next shot. The bonus is discarded if the soldier moves or switches weapon. This essentially allows a soldier to fire a carefully aimed shot over two turns. The use of perks such as '''Light 'Em Up''' and '''Double Tap''' only apply the bonus to the first shot taken. Note that sniper rifles can be steadied after moving, even if the operator cannot fire them. Steady Weapon's Aim bonus also applies to fired rockets, reducing rocket scatter.

== Explosives ==
In Long War explosives no longer do fixed damage to all targets in their radius. The further a target is from the center of the blast, the less damage it will take. This also applies to cover and cover in general is a little tougher than in vanilla.

== Rockets ==
Long War uses a revamped system for rocket accuracy. Aim is used when firing rockets to determine the chance of them landing on target, rather than the fixed 90% chance in vanilla. Rather than the vanilla behavior of a missed rocket veering wildly off course, Long War rockets never "miss" but will veer off course a random amount based on the soldier's Aim, with higher Aim giving less scatter. Lower range means less scatter, and the soldier achieving 120 Aim yields no scatter at any range. Rockets can also be fired after moving, but with increased scatter and reduced range. Rockets can not change height through scatter.

The hit chance shown while aiming is not a literal % hit chance, nor is it the maximum scatter distance. "Scatter" instead indicates the standard deviation on the X and Y axis. You can expect 68% of your rockets to hit within the standard deviation, 95% to hit within 2 times the standard deviation, and 99.7% to hit within 3 times the standard deviation. Rockets can exceed even this degree of deviation, but the chance is negligible.

Unblocked (no "Shot is Blocked" warning) rockets that veer off course will travel through most destructible terrain to their destination, destroying it in the process. If they encounter an allied or enemy pawn, they will detonate immediately.

[[Category: Long War]]

Weapons (Long War)

2014-11-08T02:08:07Z

Boris: /* Light Machine Gun */ Removed "+1" from all ammo counts. Since SAWs are the only exception, I'm just adding note "+1 ammo (+2 for SAWs)" to Hi Cap Mags.

{{CheckOutdated (Long War)|b14}}
Long War makes several changes to weapons:
* There are five tiers of weapons: Conventional/Ballistic, Beam Laser, Gauss, Pulse Laser, Plasma.
* There are several additional types of primary and secondary weapon available in each tier.
* Many weapons can be Steadied as an action to improve aim for the next turn.
* Explosives no longer do fixed damage, and their damage reduces the further a target is from the center of the blast.
* Rocket launchers use a revamped accuracy system using the soldier's aim.
==Weapon tiers==
===Conventional/Ballistic===
These are the basic weapons you start with - and whilst they're okay to begin with, they're not going to be up to scratch in the long run. The sawed-off shotgun is unique to this tier. Ballistic weapons use the same models as EXALT ballistic weapons in vanilla.

===Beam Lasers===
Early beam lasers form the second tier of weapons, and all carry a small inherent accuracy bonus, which can make them good 'training' weapons for inexperienced troopers or as aiming aid for rocketeers in their aiming of explosives (much like you might otherwise issue them regular carbines). They also have a little more firepower than Ballistic weapons, but it still won't be enough in the long run. Although skipping laser weaponry in vanilla is a viable and at times easy-to-pull-off gambit, in long war expense of gauss weapons combined with the tighter economy makes this less appealing, and the aim bonus beam lasers confer makes them arguably better early game than gauss anyway. Beam Lasers use the same visuals as EXALT laser weapons in vanilla.

===Gauss===
Gauss weapons return to ballistic projectiles but elerium power sources make man-portable magnetic accelerators practical; combined with alloy-based projectiles, it's a recipe for pretty formidable personal weaponry. In general Gauss weapons have a larger clip size, which can make this tier of weapons preferable for soldiers that has ammo-intensive perks or abilities such as flush ,suppression, collateral damage, in the zone, close combat specialist, close encounters, light 'em up, and rapid fire. Uniquely, the sniper rifle of this tier--the Gauss long rifle--grants snipers the HEAT ammo perk, whom otherwise can't obtain said perk normally. This makes Gauss snipers a powerful counter to mechanical leaders/bosses whom can have over 50 health and a staggering amount of damage reduction; though in return, the Gauss long rifle has a rather inconvenient clip size of 1. Gauss weapons use the original XCOM weapon models.

Note: There are plans to give this tier of weaponry additional damage reduction penetration in '''future editions''' of the mod. (b14)

===Pulse Lasers===
Refining and enhancing laser technology allows for the development of pulse laser weaponry, another step up in terms of firepower. Pulse laser weapons have a bonus to their critical hit chance, which might make them more preferable to laser weapons in the hands of crit-focused assaults and snipers. They use the same visuals as XCOM-built laser weaponry.
===Plasma===
Plasma tier weapons are the most powerful in terms of raw damage, but also expensive and hard to obtain; building them requires captured alien weapons as production components... which means you'll have to stun and capture aliens for every weapon you want to build.
== Weapon types==
Long War adds many new types of primary and secondary weapon. Most of these weapon types have a corresponding weapon at each technology level. The primary weapon types are, in descending order of average damage: '''SHIV/MEC Primary Weapons''' > '''Light Machine Guns''' and '''Shotguns''' > '''Heavy Rifles''', '''Marksman/Sniper rifles''' and '''Squad Automatic Weapon''' > '''Assault Rifles''' > '''Carbines''' and '''Submachine Guns'''. In general, the more powerful a weapon is the more unwieldy it is as well, and that will reflect in aim and mobility penalties/bonuses. The MEC version of heavy machine guns have a unusually large deviation of +/-4. And finally Shotguns' damage is severely impeded by damage reduction.

=== '''Pistols''' ===
The default sidearm, very similar to vanilla pistols, except that they do not have unlimited ammo. Pistols have shorter effective range than assault rifles unless the soldier possesses the Gunslinger perk.
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
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| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
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|[[Image:Pistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pistol''' || 1-3 || 0% || 3-4 || 0 || 0 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} ||Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 0 ||None ||colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Laser Pistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]] '''Laser Pistol''' || 2-4 || 0% || 4-5 || +7 || 0 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}}|| Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer|| 15|| Beam weapons || 30 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 10
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Pistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]] '''Plasma Pistol''' || 3-5 || 0% || 5-7 || 0 || 0 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}}|| Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 90|| Compact Plasma Weapons || 175 || 25 || 20 || 1 || 12
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|}

==='''Machine Pistols'''===
A more damaging sidearm, but at the cost of added weight and decreased aim when drawn. Machine Pistols also tend to have very limited ammo. Useful for a Gunslinger soldier to finish off targets.
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
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| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
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|[[Image:Machine pistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Machine Pistol''' || 2-4 || 0% || 4-5 || -10 || -1 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 0|| None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Heater Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heater''' || 3-5 || 0% || 5-7 || -3 || -1 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 15|| Beam weapons || 30 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Gauss Autopistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Autopistol''' || 3-5 || 0% || 5-7 || -10 || -1 || 3 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 28 || Gauss Weapons || 40 || 4 || 1 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Blaster Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Blaster''' || 4-6 || 10% || 6-9 || -10 || -1 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 60 || Pulse Lasers || 80 || 12 || 8 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Mauler Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Mauler''' || 4-8 || 0% || 8-11 || -10 || -2 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 90 || Compact Plasma Weapons || 230|| 30 || 20 || 1 || 12
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|}

==='''SMG'''===
SMGs confer +3 mobility bonus and have the lowest damage and crit chance of all the primary weapons. Unlike Carbines, SMGs do not grant bonus accuracy. They're very useful for classes that need to reposition quickly to bring explosives and other area weapons against enemies, making them a good choice for Rocketeers and Engineers. Scouts, who might use the added mobility usually require something that packs a punch, like a Shotgun or any Rifle.
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:SMG Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Submachine Gun''' || 2-4 || 0% || 4-5 || 0 || +3 || 2 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 0|| None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Laser Shatterray Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Shatterray''' || 3-5 || 0% || 5-7 || +7 || +3 || 2 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 15 || Beam Weapons || 35 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Gauss Stuttergun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Stuttergun''' || 4-6 || 0% || 6-9 || 0 || +3 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || All || 28 || Gauss Weapons || 75 || 6 || 1 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Pulse Stengun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Stengun''' || 4-8 || 10% || 8-11 || 0 || +3 || 2 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 62 || Pulse Lasers || 120 || 15 || 10 || 0 ||12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Stormgun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Stormgun''' || 5-9 || 0% || 9-12 || 0 || +3 || 2 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 90 || Plasma Weapons || 200 || 30 || 20 || 1 || 12
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|}

==='''Carbines'''===
Carbines are light versions of assault rifles. They have reduced damage and crit chance, but confer +1 mobility and an accuracy bonus. They are ideal for inexperienced troops and those that need to move quickly, but experienced troops should switch to other weapons quickly as tougher aliens begin to appear.
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
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| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
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|[[Image:Assault Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Assault Carbine''' || 2-4 || 5% || 4-5 || +7 || +1 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
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|[[Image:Laser Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Carbine''' || 3-5 || 5% || 5-7 || +15 || +1 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 15 || Beam weapons || 40 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
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|[[Image:Gauss Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Carbine''' || 4-6 || 5% || 6-9 || +7 || +1 || 4 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || All || 30 || Gauss Weapons || 95 || 8 || 2 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Pulse Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Carbine''' || 4-8 || 15% || 8-11 || +7 || +1 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 63 || Pulse Lasers || 180 || 15 || 15 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Carbine''' || 5-9 || 5% || 9-12 || +7 || +1 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 90 || Plasma Weapons || 280 || 30 || 25 || 1 || 12
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|}

==='''Assault Rifles'''===
These are the baseline assault rifles, similar to their vanilla counterparts. They have a respectable balance of firepower and accuracy. 
The Arc Rifle is a special Rifle that grants Disabling Shot with the regular 2-turn cooldown, although it does not confer the snap shot perk. It has low damage and ammo capacity. Useful early on for raiding small UFO's with capable soldiers and plenty of arc thrower uses.

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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
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|[[Image:Assault Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Assault Rifle''' || 3-5 || 10% || 5-7 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Laser Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Rifle''' || 4-6 || 10% || 6-9 || +7 || 0 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 15 || Beam weapons || 50 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Gauss Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Rifle''' || 4-8 || 10% || 8-11 || 0 || 0 || 4 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || All || 30 || Gauss Weapons || 100 || 12 || 2 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image:Pulse Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Rifle''' || 5-9 || 20% || 9-12 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 60 || Pulse Lasers || 200 || 20 || 15 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Rifle''' || 6-10 || 10% || 10-14 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer|| 95 || Advanced Plasma Weapons || 380 || 40 || 30 || 2 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Arc Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Arc Rifle''' || 1-3 || 0% || 3-4 || 0 || 0 || 2 || 200 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Grants Disabling Shot, Cannot fire after any costly action || All except Gunners and Rocketeers || 25 || Xenoneurology New Combat Systems || 60 || 2 || 2 || 0 || 10
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|}

==='''Battle Rifle'''===
Battle Rifles are heavier versions of assault rifles. They do increased damage and have one additional burst relative to assault rifles, but carry a mobility penalty and a hefty aim penalty. They are best used by experienced soldiers who can aim well enough to offset the penalty (Infantry in particular, thanks to their high aim progression and ability to fire multiple times per turn cycle).
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:Battle Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Battle Rifle''' || 4-6 || 10% || 6-9 || -15 || -1 || 4 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Heavy Laser Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heavy Laser Rifle''' || 4-8|| 15% || 8-11 || -8 || -1 || 4 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 20 || Advanced Beam Lasers || 70 || 4 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Heavy Gauss Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heavy Gauss Rifle''' || 5-9 || 15% || 9-12 || -15 || -1 || 5 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 40 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 140 || 15 || 5 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image:Heavy Pulse Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heavy Pulse Rifle''' || 6-10 || 25% || 10-14 || -15 || -1 || 4 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 67 || Advanced Pulse Lasers || 220 || 25 || 20 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Heavy Plasma Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heavy Plasma Rifle''' || 7-11 || 15% || 11-16 || -15 || -1 || 4 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 105 || Heavy Plasma Weapons || 400 || 40 || 28 || 2 || 18
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|}

==='''Shotgun'''===
Long War shotgun-type weapons are similar to their vanilla counterparts. High damage, high crit chance, short range. Shotguns are extremely accurate up close, but suffer from very poor accuracy over longer ranges (even with Cinematic Mode enabled). As such, they work best with highly mobile classes or those that only ever expect to engage enemies up close, like Assault and Scout soldiers. 

The sawed-off shotgun, a point-blank range, high damage sidearm with -1 mobility. It has only one shot, and this cannot be increased by ammo capacity upgrades.
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Shotgun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Shotgun''' || 4-8 || 20% || 8-11 || 0 || 0 || 5 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage Reduction]] penalty || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Sawed-off Shotgun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Sawed-Off Shotgun''' || 4-8 || 5% || 8-11 || -15 || -1 || 1 || 3 || {{No Icon}} || Sidearm. Confers -1 mobility. Can only be used at point blank range. || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 1 || None || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 1
|-align=center
|[[Image: Scatter Laser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Scatter Laser''' || 5-9 || 20% || 9-12 || +7 || 0 || 3 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage reduction]] penalty
| Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 18 || Advanced Beam Weapons || 80 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Alloy Cannon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Alloy Cannon''' || 6-10 || 20% || 10-14 || 0 || 0 || 4 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage reduction]] penalty .33 DR reduction
| Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 32 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 150 || 18 || 5 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Scatter Blaster Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Scatter Blaster''' || 7-11 || 30% || 11-16 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage reduction]] penalty
| Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 62 || Advanced Pulse Weapons || 250 || 20 || 20 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Reflex Cannon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Reflex Cannon''' || 7-13 || 20% || 13-18 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage reduction]] penalty
| Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 102 || Sectopod Autopsy || 500 || 40 || 30 || 2 || 18
|-
|}

==='''Sniper Rifle'''===
Sniper Rifles are mostly identical to their vanilla counterparts and can only be used by Snipers. They have very long range (double the range of vanilla, making it functionally infinite), but can only be fired if the user has not taken a costly, including reloading, unless they have Snap Shot training. Long War sniper rifles have higher penalties when used at short range than vanilla sniper rifles. Sniper rifles can only overwatch fire up to visual range, so consider steadying the weapon instead to end a turn without targets (especially if you don't have snapshot training).
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Sniper Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Sniper Rifle''' || 4-6 || 25% || 6-9 || 0 || -1 || 5 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty || Sniper || 0 ||None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Laser Sniper Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Sniper Rifle''' || 4-8 || 25% || 8-11 || +7 || -1 || 3 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty || Sniper || 18 || Advanced Beam Weapons || 50 || 4 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gauss Long Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Long Rifle''' || 5-9 || 10% || 9-12 || 0 || -2 || 1 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty Grants HEAT Ammo perk. .33 DR reduction || Sniper || 35 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 250 || 15 || 5 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Pulse Sniper Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Sniper Rifle''' || 6-10 || 35% || 10-14 || 0 || -1 || 3 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty || Sniper || 65 || Advanced Pulse Lasers || 250 || 25|| 20 || 0|| 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Plasma Sniper Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Sniper Rifle''' || 7-11 || 25% || 11-16 || 0 || -1 || 3 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty || Sniper || 105 || Precision Plasma Weapons || 500 || 45 || 30 || 2 || 18
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|}

==='''Marksman Rifle'''===
Marksman rifles are smaller versions of sniper rifles that can also only be used by the Sniper and Scout classes. They have longer range than most weapons, but considerably shorter than sniper rifles nonetheless can be fired after moving. Like sniper rifles, marksman rifles have hefty accuracy penalties when used at short range. Marksman rifles have the same base damage as sniper rifles, but considerably lower crit chance. Marksman rifles can fire reaction shots up to their maximum range, and with Precision Shot they have unlimited range. 
Marksman Rifles are better suited to close-quarters maps where mobility is essential. 
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Marksman Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Marksman Rifle''' || 4-6 || 15% || 6-9 || 0 || 0 || 5 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty || Scout, Sniper || 0 ||None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Laser Strike Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Strike Rifle''' || 4-8 || 15% || 8-11 || +7 || 0 || 3 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty || Scout, Sniper || 18 || Advanced Beam Lasers || 50 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image: Alloy Strike Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Alloy Strike Rifle''' || 5-9 || 15% || 9-12 || 0 || 0 || 4 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty .33 DR reduction || Scout, Sniper || 35 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 120 || 15 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Blaster Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Blaster Rifle''' || 6-10 || 25% || 10-14 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty || Scout, Sniper || 67 || Advanced Pulse Lasers || 220 || 25 || 20 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Reflex Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Reflex Rifle''' || 7-11 || 15% || 11-16 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty || Scout, Sniper || 102 || Precision Plasma Weapons || 450 || 40 || 30 || 2 || 18
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|}

==='''Squad Automatic Weapon'''===
SAW-type weapons are the closest equivalent to vanilla LMGs in Long War. They can only be used by the Gunner class. SAWs have larger magazines and higher damage than assault rifles but confer a mobility penalty and can't be steadied. They allow faster movement than LMGs, but have less ammo and deal less damage. Suppressing a target with a SAW grants the Opportunist perk for any reaction fire triggered by enemy movement
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: SAW Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''SAW''' || 4-6 || 0% || 6-9 || 0 || -1 || 6 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Gunner || 0 ||None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Autolaser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Autolaser''' || 4-8 || 0% || 8-11 || +7 || -1 || 6 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Gunner || 65 || Beam Weapons || 60 || 4 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gauss Autorifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Autorifle''' || 5-9 || 0% || 9-12 || 0 || -1 || 7 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || Gunner || 32 || Gauss Weapons || 110 || 15 || 2 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Pulse Autoblaster Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Autoblaster''' || 6-10 || 10% || 10-14 || 0 || -1 || 6 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Gunner || 65 || Pulse Lasers || 230 || 30 || 20 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Plasma Novagun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Novagun''' || 7-11 || 0% || 11-16 || 0 || -1 || 6 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Gunner || 98 || Advanced Plasma Weapons || 500 || 45 || 30 || 2 || 20
|-
|}

==='''Light Machine Gun'''===
LMG-type weapons are larger versions of SAWs and are also only usable by the Gunner class. LMGs carry a mobility penalty and can only fire if the user has not moved, but in return they have even larger magazines and even higher damage than SAWs. LMGs also have a slightly longer range than most weapons and confer the Squadsight perk on the user so they can make use of the extra range. When an LMG is used to suppress, the reaction shot taken if the target moves suffers no aim penalty and can crit. LMGs can only overwatch fire up to visual range. 
LMGs are ideal for heavy defensive situations where the Gunner can situate themselves securely and guard a given area using normal and reaction fire.
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: LMG Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''LMG''' || 4-8 || 5% || 8-11 || 0 || -2 || 8+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight || Gunner || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gatling Laser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gatling Laser''' || 5-9 || 5% || 9-12 || +7 || -2 || 8 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight || Gunner || 18 || Beam weapons || 60 || 5 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gauss Machine Gun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Machine Gun''' || 6-10 || 5% || 10-14 || 0 || -2 || 9 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight .33 DR reduction || Gunner || 40 || Gauss Weapons || 140 || 16 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gatling Pulser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gatling Pulser''' || 7-11 || 15% || 11-16 || 0 || -2 || 8 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight || Gunner || 64 || Pulse Lasers || 215 || 35 || 22 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Plasma Dragon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Dragon''' || 7-13 || 5% || 13-18 || 0 || -2 || 8 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight || Gunner || 105 || Heavy Plasma Weapons || 500 || 48 || 32 || 2 || 20
|-
|}

==='''Rocket Launchers'''===
Sometimes you just have to make a good first-time impression. Sometimes you just happen to not have the right key for a door. Sometimes you just want to give those aliens a running start on their way back - do not fret, Xcom have some portable rocket launchers for you! 

Rockets are fairly simple to use - pick youр ability, aim and fire. There is always some guaranteed scatter which is limited by the soldier's Aim and Abilities. While mostly used by Rocketeers, Engineers also have the ability at later stages of the game to carry a rocket launcher. Carrying one forfeits your sidearm. For more information regarding rockets read bellow.
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!colspan="18" | Rocket Launchers
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Rocket Launcher Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Rocket Launcher''' || 4-10 || 0% || - || 0 || -1 || 1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Rocketeer|| 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Recoilless Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Recoilless Rifle''' || 6-12 || 0% || - || 0 || -1 || 1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || .33 DR reduction|| Rocketeer|| 35 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 100 || 25 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Blaster Launcher Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Blaster Launcher''' || 8-16 || 0% || - || 0 || -2 || 1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Rocketeer|| 110 || Fusion Weapons || 600 || 60 || 65 || 2 || 20
|-
|}

==='''MEC Primary Weapons'''===
MEC weapons (unsurprisingly) can only be used by MECs. They are high damage and have extended range equal to marksman rifles and LMGs, but do not confer the squadsight perk, so only MEC classes that have squadsight can use the extra range. Even MECs with squadsight can only overwatch fire up to visual range.
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!colspan="18" | MEC Primary Weapons
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Minigun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Minigun''' || 5-9 || 10% || 9-12 || 0 || 0 || 2+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || - || MEC || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Laser Lance Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Lance''' || 7-11 || 10% || 11-16 || +7 || 0 || 3+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || - || MEC || 20 || Advanced Beam Lasers || 80 || 5 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Railgun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Railgun''' || 7-13 || 10% || 13-18 || 0 || 0 || 4+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || .33 DR reduction, no suppression || MEC || 35 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 120 || 25 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Pulse Lance Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Lance''' || 7-13 || 20% || 13-18 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || - || MEC || 65 || Advanced Pulse Lasers || 240 || 35 || 24 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Particle Cannon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Particle Cannon''' || 8-14 || 10% || 14-19 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || No suppression || MEC || 105 || Heavy Plasma Weapons || 450 || 45 || 40 || 10 || 14
|-
|}

==='''MEC Seconday Weapons'''===

With each upgrade of the MEC suit the number of utility items decreases while the number of secondary weapon systems increases. As such, they can play a vital role in area control, squad support or neutralizing targets. Be advised that unlike vanilla in Long War you have to build the systems yourself and they do cost a lot of meld.

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!colspan="18" | MEC Secondary Weapons
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Flamethrower Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Flamethrower''' || 4-10 || 0% || 8-11 || - || -1 || 2 || Cone || {{No Icon}} || Incendiary area attack causing panic || MEC || 20 || MEC Warfare Systems || 85 || 0 || 0 || 5 || 7
|-align=center
|[[Image: Kinetic Strike Module Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Kinetic Strike Module''' || 9-15 || 0% || 15-21 || - || -1 || ∞ || Melee || {{No Icon}} || Close combat weapon || MEC || 22 || Floater Autopsy || 200 || 15 || 2 || 8 || 10
|-align=center
|[[Image: Grenade Launcher Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Grenade Launcher''' || 3-7 || 0% || - || - || -1 || 2 || 17 || {{No Icon}} || Indirect-fire Grenade Launcher || MEC || 35 || Gauss Weapons || 150 || 12 || 0 || 6 || 10
|-align=center
|[[Image: Proximity Mine Launcher Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Prox. Mine Launcher''' || 6-12 || 0% || - || - || -1 || 3 || 17 || {{No Icon}} || Fires Proximity Mines || MEC || 40 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 150 || 12 || 0 || 10 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Restorative Mist Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Restorative Mist''' || - || 0% || - || - || -1 || 1 || 17 || {{No Icon}} || Heals allies in an area || MEC || 28 || Thin Man Autopsy || 120 || 0 || 0 || 10 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Electro Pulse Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Electro Pulse''' || 3-9 || 0% || - || - || -1 || ∞ || 17 || {{No Icon}} || Stuns robots. 3 turn cooldown || MEC || 85 || EMP Weapons || 180 || 15 || 15 || 15 || 14
|-
|}

==='''SHIV Turrets'''===
Similar to the SAW but considerably more powerful, these heavy and expensive guns are the only weapons that the SHIV can use. While they suffer from the low base aim of all SHIV units, they can shred through enemies at close range, restrict enemy movement options when in overwatch mode thanks to certain equipment, and can deal massive damage to mechanized forces when equipped with HEAT ammo.
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Autocannon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Autocannon''' || 5-9 || 10% || 9-12 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || SHIV || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Superheavy Laser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Superheavy Laser''' || 6-10 || 10% || 10-14 || +7 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || SHIV || 20 || Advanced Beam Lasers || 80|| 5 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Sentry Gun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Sentry Gun''' || 7-11 || 10% || 11-16 || 0 || 0 || 4+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || SHIV || 35 || Gauss Weapons || 120|| 15 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Superheavy Pulser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Superheavy Pulser''' || 7-13 || 20% || 13-18 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || SHIV || 65 || Pulse Lasers || 300|| 35 || 25 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Superheavy Plasma Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Superheavy Plasma''' || 8-14 || 10% || 14-19 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || SHIV || 100 || Vehicular Plasma Weapons|| 500|| 45 || 40 ||3 || 21
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|}

== Steadying ==
Many weapons have an extra action available: Steady Weapon. This is a standard action, which will end the turn when used, which grants +20 aim for the next shot. The bonus is discarded if the soldier moves or switches weapon. This essentially allows a soldier to fire a carefully aimed shot over two turns. The use of perks such as '''Light 'Em Up''' and '''Double Tap''' only apply the bonus to the first shot taken. Note that sniper rifles can be steadied after moving, even if the operator cannot fire them. Steady Weapon's Aim bonus also applies to fired rockets, reducing rocket scatter.

== Explosives ==
In Long War explosives no longer do fixed damage to all targets in their radius. The further a target is from the center of the blast, the less damage it will take. This also applies to cover and cover in general is a little tougher than in vanilla.

== Rockets ==
Long War uses a revamped system for rocket accuracy. Aim is used when firing rockets to determine the chance of them landing on target, rather than the fixed 90% chance in vanilla. Rather than the vanilla behavior of a missed rocket veering wildly off course, Long War rockets never "miss" but will veer off course a random amount based on the soldier's Aim, with higher Aim giving less scatter. Lower range means less scatter, and the soldier achieving 120 Aim yields no scatter at any range. Rockets can also be fired after moving, but with increased scatter and reduced range. Rockets can not change height through scatter.

The hit chance shown while aiming is not a literal % hit chance, nor is it the maximum scatter distance. "Scatter" instead indicates the standard deviation on the X and Y axis. You can expect 68% of your rockets to hit within the standard deviation, 95% to hit within 2 times the standard deviation, and 99.7% to hit within 3 times the standard deviation. Rockets can exceed even this degree of deviation, but the chance is negligible.

Unblocked (no "Shot is Blocked" warning) rockets that veer off course will travel through most destructible terrain to their destination, destroying it in the process. If they encounter an allied or enemy pawn, they will detonate immediately.

[[Category: Long War]]

Weapons (Long War)

2014-11-08T02:07:16Z

Boris: /* Squad Automatic Weapon */ Removed "+1" from all ammo counts. Since SAWs are the only exception, I'm just adding note "+1 ammo (+2 for SAWs)" to Hi Cap Mags.

{{CheckOutdated (Long War)|b14}}
Long War makes several changes to weapons:
* There are five tiers of weapons: Conventional/Ballistic, Beam Laser, Gauss, Pulse Laser, Plasma.
* There are several additional types of primary and secondary weapon available in each tier.
* Many weapons can be Steadied as an action to improve aim for the next turn.
* Explosives no longer do fixed damage, and their damage reduces the further a target is from the center of the blast.
* Rocket launchers use a revamped accuracy system using the soldier's aim.
==Weapon tiers==
===Conventional/Ballistic===
These are the basic weapons you start with - and whilst they're okay to begin with, they're not going to be up to scratch in the long run. The sawed-off shotgun is unique to this tier. Ballistic weapons use the same models as EXALT ballistic weapons in vanilla.

===Beam Lasers===
Early beam lasers form the second tier of weapons, and all carry a small inherent accuracy bonus, which can make them good 'training' weapons for inexperienced troopers or as aiming aid for rocketeers in their aiming of explosives (much like you might otherwise issue them regular carbines). They also have a little more firepower than Ballistic weapons, but it still won't be enough in the long run. Although skipping laser weaponry in vanilla is a viable and at times easy-to-pull-off gambit, in long war expense of gauss weapons combined with the tighter economy makes this less appealing, and the aim bonus beam lasers confer makes them arguably better early game than gauss anyway. Beam Lasers use the same visuals as EXALT laser weapons in vanilla.

===Gauss===
Gauss weapons return to ballistic projectiles but elerium power sources make man-portable magnetic accelerators practical; combined with alloy-based projectiles, it's a recipe for pretty formidable personal weaponry. In general Gauss weapons have a larger clip size, which can make this tier of weapons preferable for soldiers that has ammo-intensive perks or abilities such as flush ,suppression, collateral damage, in the zone, close combat specialist, close encounters, light 'em up, and rapid fire. Uniquely, the sniper rifle of this tier--the Gauss long rifle--grants snipers the HEAT ammo perk, whom otherwise can't obtain said perk normally. This makes Gauss snipers a powerful counter to mechanical leaders/bosses whom can have over 50 health and a staggering amount of damage reduction; though in return, the Gauss long rifle has a rather inconvenient clip size of 1. Gauss weapons use the original XCOM weapon models.

Note: There are plans to give this tier of weaponry additional damage reduction penetration in '''future editions''' of the mod. (b14)

===Pulse Lasers===
Refining and enhancing laser technology allows for the development of pulse laser weaponry, another step up in terms of firepower. Pulse laser weapons have a bonus to their critical hit chance, which might make them more preferable to laser weapons in the hands of crit-focused assaults and snipers. They use the same visuals as XCOM-built laser weaponry.
===Plasma===
Plasma tier weapons are the most powerful in terms of raw damage, but also expensive and hard to obtain; building them requires captured alien weapons as production components... which means you'll have to stun and capture aliens for every weapon you want to build.
== Weapon types==
Long War adds many new types of primary and secondary weapon. Most of these weapon types have a corresponding weapon at each technology level. The primary weapon types are, in descending order of average damage: '''SHIV/MEC Primary Weapons''' > '''Light Machine Guns''' and '''Shotguns''' > '''Heavy Rifles''', '''Marksman/Sniper rifles''' and '''Squad Automatic Weapon''' > '''Assault Rifles''' > '''Carbines''' and '''Submachine Guns'''. In general, the more powerful a weapon is the more unwieldy it is as well, and that will reflect in aim and mobility penalties/bonuses. The MEC version of heavy machine guns have a unusually large deviation of +/-4. And finally Shotguns' damage is severely impeded by damage reduction.

=== '''Pistols''' ===
The default sidearm, very similar to vanilla pistols, except that they do not have unlimited ammo. Pistols have shorter effective range than assault rifles unless the soldier possesses the Gunslinger perk.
{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | Pistols
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:Pistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pistol''' || 1-3 || 0% || 3-4 || 0 || 0 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} ||Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 0 ||None ||colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Laser Pistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]] '''Laser Pistol''' || 2-4 || 0% || 4-5 || +7 || 0 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}}|| Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer|| 15|| Beam weapons || 30 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 10
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Pistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]] '''Plasma Pistol''' || 3-5 || 0% || 5-7 || 0 || 0 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}}|| Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 90|| Compact Plasma Weapons || 175 || 25 || 20 || 1 || 12
|-
|}

==='''Machine Pistols'''===
A more damaging sidearm, but at the cost of added weight and decreased aim when drawn. Machine Pistols also tend to have very limited ammo. Useful for a Gunslinger soldier to finish off targets.
{| class="wikitable"
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:Machine pistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Machine Pistol''' || 2-4 || 0% || 4-5 || -10 || -1 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 0|| None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Heater Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heater''' || 3-5 || 0% || 5-7 || -3 || -1 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 15|| Beam weapons || 30 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Gauss Autopistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Autopistol''' || 3-5 || 0% || 5-7 || -10 || -1 || 3 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 28 || Gauss Weapons || 40 || 4 || 1 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Blaster Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Blaster''' || 4-6 || 10% || 6-9 || -10 || -1 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 60 || Pulse Lasers || 80 || 12 || 8 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Mauler Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Mauler''' || 4-8 || 0% || 8-11 || -10 || -2 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 90 || Compact Plasma Weapons || 230|| 30 || 20 || 1 || 12
|-
|}

==='''SMG'''===
SMGs confer +3 mobility bonus and have the lowest damage and crit chance of all the primary weapons. Unlike Carbines, SMGs do not grant bonus accuracy. They're very useful for classes that need to reposition quickly to bring explosives and other area weapons against enemies, making them a good choice for Rocketeers and Engineers. Scouts, who might use the added mobility usually require something that packs a punch, like a Shotgun or any Rifle.
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:SMG Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Submachine Gun''' || 2-4 || 0% || 4-5 || 0 || +3 || 2 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 0|| None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Laser Shatterray Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Shatterray''' || 3-5 || 0% || 5-7 || +7 || +3 || 2 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 15 || Beam Weapons || 35 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Gauss Stuttergun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Stuttergun''' || 4-6 || 0% || 6-9 || 0 || +3 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || All || 28 || Gauss Weapons || 75 || 6 || 1 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Pulse Stengun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Stengun''' || 4-8 || 10% || 8-11 || 0 || +3 || 2 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 62 || Pulse Lasers || 120 || 15 || 10 || 0 ||12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Stormgun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Stormgun''' || 5-9 || 0% || 9-12 || 0 || +3 || 2 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 90 || Plasma Weapons || 200 || 30 || 20 || 1 || 12
|-
|}

==='''Carbines'''===
Carbines are light versions of assault rifles. They have reduced damage and crit chance, but confer +1 mobility and an accuracy bonus. They are ideal for inexperienced troops and those that need to move quickly, but experienced troops should switch to other weapons quickly as tougher aliens begin to appear.
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:Assault Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Assault Carbine''' || 2-4 || 5% || 4-5 || +7 || +1 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Laser Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Carbine''' || 3-5 || 5% || 5-7 || +15 || +1 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 15 || Beam weapons || 40 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Gauss Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Carbine''' || 4-6 || 5% || 6-9 || +7 || +1 || 4 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || All || 30 || Gauss Weapons || 95 || 8 || 2 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Pulse Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Carbine''' || 4-8 || 15% || 8-11 || +7 || +1 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 63 || Pulse Lasers || 180 || 15 || 15 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Carbine''' || 5-9 || 5% || 9-12 || +7 || +1 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 90 || Plasma Weapons || 280 || 30 || 25 || 1 || 12
|-
|}

==='''Assault Rifles'''===
These are the baseline assault rifles, similar to their vanilla counterparts. They have a respectable balance of firepower and accuracy. 
The Arc Rifle is a special Rifle that grants Disabling Shot with the regular 2-turn cooldown, although it does not confer the snap shot perk. It has low damage and ammo capacity. Useful early on for raiding small UFO's with capable soldiers and plenty of arc thrower uses.

{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | Assault Rifles
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:Assault Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Assault Rifle''' || 3-5 || 10% || 5-7 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Laser Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Rifle''' || 4-6 || 10% || 6-9 || +7 || 0 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 15 || Beam weapons || 50 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Gauss Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Rifle''' || 4-8 || 10% || 8-11 || 0 || 0 || 4 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || All || 30 || Gauss Weapons || 100 || 12 || 2 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image:Pulse Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Rifle''' || 5-9 || 20% || 9-12 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 60 || Pulse Lasers || 200 || 20 || 15 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Rifle''' || 6-10 || 10% || 10-14 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer|| 95 || Advanced Plasma Weapons || 380 || 40 || 30 || 2 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Arc Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Arc Rifle''' || 1-3 || 0% || 3-4 || 0 || 0 || 2 || 200 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Grants Disabling Shot, Cannot fire after any costly action || All except Gunners and Rocketeers || 25 || Xenoneurology New Combat Systems || 60 || 2 || 2 || 0 || 10
|-
|}

==='''Battle Rifle'''===
Battle Rifles are heavier versions of assault rifles. They do increased damage and have one additional burst relative to assault rifles, but carry a mobility penalty and a hefty aim penalty. They are best used by experienced soldiers who can aim well enough to offset the penalty (Infantry in particular, thanks to their high aim progression and ability to fire multiple times per turn cycle).
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|-
! colspan="18" | Battle Rifles
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:Battle Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Battle Rifle''' || 4-6 || 10% || 6-9 || -15 || -1 || 4 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Heavy Laser Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heavy Laser Rifle''' || 4-8|| 15% || 8-11 || -8 || -1 || 4 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 20 || Advanced Beam Lasers || 70 || 4 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Heavy Gauss Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heavy Gauss Rifle''' || 5-9 || 15% || 9-12 || -15 || -1 || 5 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 40 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 140 || 15 || 5 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image:Heavy Pulse Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heavy Pulse Rifle''' || 6-10 || 25% || 10-14 || -15 || -1 || 4 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 67 || Advanced Pulse Lasers || 220 || 25 || 20 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Heavy Plasma Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heavy Plasma Rifle''' || 7-11 || 15% || 11-16 || -15 || -1 || 4 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 105 || Heavy Plasma Weapons || 400 || 40 || 28 || 2 || 18
|-
|}

==='''Shotgun'''===
Long War shotgun-type weapons are similar to their vanilla counterparts. High damage, high crit chance, short range. Shotguns are extremely accurate up close, but suffer from very poor accuracy over longer ranges (even with Cinematic Mode enabled). As such, they work best with highly mobile classes or those that only ever expect to engage enemies up close, like Assault and Scout soldiers. 

The sawed-off shotgun, a point-blank range, high damage sidearm with -1 mobility. It has only one shot, and this cannot be increased by ammo capacity upgrades.
{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | Shotguns
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Shotgun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Shotgun''' || 4-8 || 20% || 8-11 || 0 || 0 || 5 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage Reduction]] penalty || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Sawed-off Shotgun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Sawed-Off Shotgun''' || 4-8 || 5% || 8-11 || -15 || -1 || 1 || 3 || {{No Icon}} || Sidearm. Confers -1 mobility. Can only be used at point blank range. || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 1 || None || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 1
|-align=center
|[[Image: Scatter Laser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Scatter Laser''' || 5-9 || 20% || 9-12 || +7 || 0 || 3 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage reduction]] penalty
| Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 18 || Advanced Beam Weapons || 80 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Alloy Cannon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Alloy Cannon''' || 6-10 || 20% || 10-14 || 0 || 0 || 4 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage reduction]] penalty .33 DR reduction
| Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 32 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 150 || 18 || 5 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Scatter Blaster Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Scatter Blaster''' || 7-11 || 30% || 11-16 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage reduction]] penalty
| Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 62 || Advanced Pulse Weapons || 250 || 20 || 20 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Reflex Cannon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Reflex Cannon''' || 7-13 || 20% || 13-18 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage reduction]] penalty
| Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 102 || Sectopod Autopsy || 500 || 40 || 30 || 2 || 18
|-
|}

==='''Sniper Rifle'''===
Sniper Rifles are mostly identical to their vanilla counterparts and can only be used by Snipers. They have very long range (double the range of vanilla, making it functionally infinite), but can only be fired if the user has not taken a costly, including reloading, unless they have Snap Shot training. Long War sniper rifles have higher penalties when used at short range than vanilla sniper rifles. Sniper rifles can only overwatch fire up to visual range, so consider steadying the weapon instead to end a turn without targets (especially if you don't have snapshot training).
{| class="wikitable"
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|-
!colspan="18" | Sniper Rifles
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Sniper Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Sniper Rifle''' || 4-6 || 25% || 6-9 || 0 || -1 || 5 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty || Sniper || 0 ||None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Laser Sniper Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Sniper Rifle''' || 4-8 || 25% || 8-11 || +7 || -1 || 3 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty || Sniper || 18 || Advanced Beam Weapons || 50 || 4 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gauss Long Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Long Rifle''' || 5-9 || 10% || 9-12 || 0 || -2 || 1 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty Grants HEAT Ammo perk. .33 DR reduction || Sniper || 35 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 250 || 15 || 5 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Pulse Sniper Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Sniper Rifle''' || 6-10 || 35% || 10-14 || 0 || -1 || 3 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty || Sniper || 65 || Advanced Pulse Lasers || 250 || 25|| 20 || 0|| 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Plasma Sniper Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Sniper Rifle''' || 7-11 || 25% || 11-16 || 0 || -1 || 3 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty || Sniper || 105 || Precision Plasma Weapons || 500 || 45 || 30 || 2 || 18
|-
|}

==='''Marksman Rifle'''===
Marksman rifles are smaller versions of sniper rifles that can also only be used by the Sniper and Scout classes. They have longer range than most weapons, but considerably shorter than sniper rifles nonetheless can be fired after moving. Like sniper rifles, marksman rifles have hefty accuracy penalties when used at short range. Marksman rifles have the same base damage as sniper rifles, but considerably lower crit chance. Marksman rifles can fire reaction shots up to their maximum range, and with Precision Shot they have unlimited range. 
Marksman Rifles are better suited to close-quarters maps where mobility is essential. 
{| class="wikitable"
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|-
!colspan="18" | Marksman Rifles
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Marksman Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Marksman Rifle''' || 4-6 || 15% || 6-9 || 0 || 0 || 5 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty || Scout, Sniper || 0 ||None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Laser Strike Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Strike Rifle''' || 4-8 || 15% || 8-11 || +7 || 0 || 3 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty || Scout, Sniper || 18 || Advanced Beam Lasers || 50 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image: Alloy Strike Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Alloy Strike Rifle''' || 5-9 || 15% || 9-12 || 0 || 0 || 4 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty .33 DR reduction || Scout, Sniper || 35 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 120 || 15 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Blaster Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Blaster Rifle''' || 6-10 || 25% || 10-14 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty || Scout, Sniper || 67 || Advanced Pulse Lasers || 220 || 25 || 20 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Reflex Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Reflex Rifle''' || 7-11 || 15% || 11-16 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty || Scout, Sniper || 102 || Precision Plasma Weapons || 450 || 40 || 30 || 2 || 18
|-
|}

==='''Squad Automatic Weapon'''===
SAW-type weapons are the closest equivalent to vanilla LMGs in Long War. They can only be used by the Gunner class. SAWs have larger magazines and higher damage than assault rifles but confer a mobility penalty and can't be steadied. They allow faster movement than LMGs, but have less ammo and deal less damage. Suppressing a target with a SAW grants the Opportunist perk for any reaction fire triggered by enemy movement
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!colspan="18" | Squad Automatic Weapons
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: SAW Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''SAW''' || 4-6 || 0% || 6-9 || 0 || -1 || 6 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Gunner || 0 ||None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Autolaser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Autolaser''' || 4-8 || 0% || 8-11 || +7 || -1 || 6 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Gunner || 65 || Beam Weapons || 60 || 4 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gauss Autorifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Autorifle''' || 5-9 || 0% || 9-12 || 0 || -1 || 7 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || Gunner || 32 || Gauss Weapons || 110 || 15 || 2 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Pulse Autoblaster Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Autoblaster''' || 6-10 || 10% || 10-14 || 0 || -1 || 6 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Gunner || 65 || Pulse Lasers || 230 || 30 || 20 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Plasma Novagun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Novagun''' || 7-11 || 0% || 11-16 || 0 || -1 || 6 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Gunner || 98 || Advanced Plasma Weapons || 500 || 45 || 30 || 2 || 20
|-
|}

==='''Light Machine Gun'''===
LMG-type weapons are larger versions of SAWs and are also only usable by the Gunner class. LMGs carry a mobility penalty and can only fire if the user has not moved, but in return they have even larger magazines and even higher damage than SAWs. LMGs also have a slightly longer range than most weapons and confer the Squadsight perk on the user so they can make use of the extra range. When an LMG is used to suppress, the reaction shot taken if the target moves suffers no aim penalty and can crit. LMGs can only overwatch fire up to visual range. 
LMGs are ideal for heavy defensive situations where the Gunner can situate themselves securely and guard a given area using normal and reaction fire.
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!colspan="18" | Light Machine Guns
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: LMG Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''LMG''' || 4-8 || 5% || 8-11 || 0 || -2 || 8+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight || Gunner || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gatling Laser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gatling Laser''' || 5-9 || 5% || 9-12 || +7 || -2 || 8+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight || Gunner || 18 || Beam weapons || 60 || 5 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gauss Machine Gun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Machine Gun''' || 6-10 || 5% || 10-14 || 0 || -2 || 9+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight .33 DR reduction || Gunner || 40 || Gauss Weapons || 140 || 16 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gatling Pulser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gatling Pulser''' || 7-11 || 15% || 11-16 || 0 || -2 || 8+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight || Gunner || 64 || Pulse Lasers || 215 || 35 || 22 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Plasma Dragon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Dragon''' || 7-13 || 5% || 13-18 || 0 || -2 || 8+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight || Gunner || 105 || Heavy Plasma Weapons || 500 || 48 || 32 || 2 || 20
|-
|}

==='''Rocket Launchers'''===
Sometimes you just have to make a good first-time impression. Sometimes you just happen to not have the right key for a door. Sometimes you just want to give those aliens a running start on their way back - do not fret, Xcom have some portable rocket launchers for you! 

Rockets are fairly simple to use - pick youр ability, aim and fire. There is always some guaranteed scatter which is limited by the soldier's Aim and Abilities. While mostly used by Rocketeers, Engineers also have the ability at later stages of the game to carry a rocket launcher. Carrying one forfeits your sidearm. For more information regarding rockets read bellow.
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!colspan="18" | Rocket Launchers
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Rocket Launcher Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Rocket Launcher''' || 4-10 || 0% || - || 0 || -1 || 1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Rocketeer|| 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Recoilless Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Recoilless Rifle''' || 6-12 || 0% || - || 0 || -1 || 1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || .33 DR reduction|| Rocketeer|| 35 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 100 || 25 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Blaster Launcher Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Blaster Launcher''' || 8-16 || 0% || - || 0 || -2 || 1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Rocketeer|| 110 || Fusion Weapons || 600 || 60 || 65 || 2 || 20
|-
|}

==='''MEC Primary Weapons'''===
MEC weapons (unsurprisingly) can only be used by MECs. They are high damage and have extended range equal to marksman rifles and LMGs, but do not confer the squadsight perk, so only MEC classes that have squadsight can use the extra range. Even MECs with squadsight can only overwatch fire up to visual range.
{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | MEC Primary Weapons
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Minigun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Minigun''' || 5-9 || 10% || 9-12 || 0 || 0 || 2+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || - || MEC || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Laser Lance Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Lance''' || 7-11 || 10% || 11-16 || +7 || 0 || 3+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || - || MEC || 20 || Advanced Beam Lasers || 80 || 5 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Railgun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Railgun''' || 7-13 || 10% || 13-18 || 0 || 0 || 4+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || .33 DR reduction, no suppression || MEC || 35 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 120 || 25 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Pulse Lance Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Lance''' || 7-13 || 20% || 13-18 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || - || MEC || 65 || Advanced Pulse Lasers || 240 || 35 || 24 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Particle Cannon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Particle Cannon''' || 8-14 || 10% || 14-19 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || No suppression || MEC || 105 || Heavy Plasma Weapons || 450 || 45 || 40 || 10 || 14
|-
|}

==='''MEC Seconday Weapons'''===

With each upgrade of the MEC suit the number of utility items decreases while the number of secondary weapon systems increases. As such, they can play a vital role in area control, squad support or neutralizing targets. Be advised that unlike vanilla in Long War you have to build the systems yourself and they do cost a lot of meld.

{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | MEC Secondary Weapons
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Flamethrower Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Flamethrower''' || 4-10 || 0% || 8-11 || - || -1 || 2 || Cone || {{No Icon}} || Incendiary area attack causing panic || MEC || 20 || MEC Warfare Systems || 85 || 0 || 0 || 5 || 7
|-align=center
|[[Image: Kinetic Strike Module Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Kinetic Strike Module''' || 9-15 || 0% || 15-21 || - || -1 || ∞ || Melee || {{No Icon}} || Close combat weapon || MEC || 22 || Floater Autopsy || 200 || 15 || 2 || 8 || 10
|-align=center
|[[Image: Grenade Launcher Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Grenade Launcher''' || 3-7 || 0% || - || - || -1 || 2 || 17 || {{No Icon}} || Indirect-fire Grenade Launcher || MEC || 35 || Gauss Weapons || 150 || 12 || 0 || 6 || 10
|-align=center
|[[Image: Proximity Mine Launcher Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Prox. Mine Launcher''' || 6-12 || 0% || - || - || -1 || 3 || 17 || {{No Icon}} || Fires Proximity Mines || MEC || 40 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 150 || 12 || 0 || 10 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Restorative Mist Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Restorative Mist''' || - || 0% || - || - || -1 || 1 || 17 || {{No Icon}} || Heals allies in an area || MEC || 28 || Thin Man Autopsy || 120 || 0 || 0 || 10 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Electro Pulse Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Electro Pulse''' || 3-9 || 0% || - || - || -1 || ∞ || 17 || {{No Icon}} || Stuns robots. 3 turn cooldown || MEC || 85 || EMP Weapons || 180 || 15 || 15 || 15 || 14
|-
|}

==='''SHIV Turrets'''===
Similar to the SAW but considerably more powerful, these heavy and expensive guns are the only weapons that the SHIV can use. While they suffer from the low base aim of all SHIV units, they can shred through enemies at close range, restrict enemy movement options when in overwatch mode thanks to certain equipment, and can deal massive damage to mechanized forces when equipped with HEAT ammo.
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
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!colspan="18" | SHIV Turrets
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Autocannon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Autocannon''' || 5-9 || 10% || 9-12 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || SHIV || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Superheavy Laser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Superheavy Laser''' || 6-10 || 10% || 10-14 || +7 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || SHIV || 20 || Advanced Beam Lasers || 80|| 5 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Sentry Gun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Sentry Gun''' || 7-11 || 10% || 11-16 || 0 || 0 || 4+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || SHIV || 35 || Gauss Weapons || 120|| 15 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Superheavy Pulser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Superheavy Pulser''' || 7-13 || 20% || 13-18 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || SHIV || 65 || Pulse Lasers || 300|| 35 || 25 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Superheavy Plasma Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Superheavy Plasma''' || 8-14 || 10% || 14-19 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || SHIV || 100 || Vehicular Plasma Weapons|| 500|| 45 || 40 ||3 || 21
|-
|}

== Steadying ==
Many weapons have an extra action available: Steady Weapon. This is a standard action, which will end the turn when used, which grants +20 aim for the next shot. The bonus is discarded if the soldier moves or switches weapon. This essentially allows a soldier to fire a carefully aimed shot over two turns. The use of perks such as '''Light 'Em Up''' and '''Double Tap''' only apply the bonus to the first shot taken. Note that sniper rifles can be steadied after moving, even if the operator cannot fire them. Steady Weapon's Aim bonus also applies to fired rockets, reducing rocket scatter.

== Explosives ==
In Long War explosives no longer do fixed damage to all targets in their radius. The further a target is from the center of the blast, the less damage it will take. This also applies to cover and cover in general is a little tougher than in vanilla.

== Rockets ==
Long War uses a revamped system for rocket accuracy. Aim is used when firing rockets to determine the chance of them landing on target, rather than the fixed 90% chance in vanilla. Rather than the vanilla behavior of a missed rocket veering wildly off course, Long War rockets never "miss" but will veer off course a random amount based on the soldier's Aim, with higher Aim giving less scatter. Lower range means less scatter, and the soldier achieving 120 Aim yields no scatter at any range. Rockets can also be fired after moving, but with increased scatter and reduced range. Rockets can not change height through scatter.

The hit chance shown while aiming is not a literal % hit chance, nor is it the maximum scatter distance. "Scatter" instead indicates the standard deviation on the X and Y axis. You can expect 68% of your rockets to hit within the standard deviation, 95% to hit within 2 times the standard deviation, and 99.7% to hit within 3 times the standard deviation. Rockets can exceed even this degree of deviation, but the chance is negligible.

Unblocked (no "Shot is Blocked" warning) rockets that veer off course will travel through most destructible terrain to their destination, destroying it in the process. If they encounter an allied or enemy pawn, they will detonate immediately.

[[Category: Long War]]

Weapons (Long War)

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{{CheckOutdated (Long War)|b14}}
Long War makes several changes to weapons:
* There are five tiers of weapons: Conventional/Ballistic, Beam Laser, Gauss, Pulse Laser, Plasma.
* There are several additional types of primary and secondary weapon available in each tier.
* Many weapons can be Steadied as an action to improve aim for the next turn.
* Explosives no longer do fixed damage, and their damage reduces the further a target is from the center of the blast.
* Rocket launchers use a revamped accuracy system using the soldier's aim.
==Weapon tiers==
===Conventional/Ballistic===
These are the basic weapons you start with - and whilst they're okay to begin with, they're not going to be up to scratch in the long run. The sawed-off shotgun is unique to this tier. Ballistic weapons use the same models as EXALT ballistic weapons in vanilla.

===Beam Lasers===
Early beam lasers form the second tier of weapons, and all carry a small inherent accuracy bonus, which can make them good 'training' weapons for inexperienced troopers or as aiming aid for rocketeers in their aiming of explosives (much like you might otherwise issue them regular carbines). They also have a little more firepower than Ballistic weapons, but it still won't be enough in the long run. Although skipping laser weaponry in vanilla is a viable and at times easy-to-pull-off gambit, in long war expense of gauss weapons combined with the tighter economy makes this less appealing, and the aim bonus beam lasers confer makes them arguably better early game than gauss anyway. Beam Lasers use the same visuals as EXALT laser weapons in vanilla.

===Gauss===
Gauss weapons return to ballistic projectiles but elerium power sources make man-portable magnetic accelerators practical; combined with alloy-based projectiles, it's a recipe for pretty formidable personal weaponry. In general Gauss weapons have a larger clip size, which can make this tier of weapons preferable for soldiers that has ammo-intensive perks or abilities such as flush ,suppression, collateral damage, in the zone, close combat specialist, close encounters, light 'em up, and rapid fire. Uniquely, the sniper rifle of this tier--the Gauss long rifle--grants snipers the HEAT ammo perk, whom otherwise can't obtain said perk normally. This makes Gauss snipers a powerful counter to mechanical leaders/bosses whom can have over 50 health and a staggering amount of damage reduction; though in return, the Gauss long rifle has a rather inconvenient clip size of 1. Gauss weapons use the original XCOM weapon models.

Note: There are plans to give this tier of weaponry additional damage reduction penetration in '''future editions''' of the mod. (b14)

===Pulse Lasers===
Refining and enhancing laser technology allows for the development of pulse laser weaponry, another step up in terms of firepower. Pulse laser weapons have a bonus to their critical hit chance, which might make them more preferable to laser weapons in the hands of crit-focused assaults and snipers. They use the same visuals as XCOM-built laser weaponry.
===Plasma===
Plasma tier weapons are the most powerful in terms of raw damage, but also expensive and hard to obtain; building them requires captured alien weapons as production components... which means you'll have to stun and capture aliens for every weapon you want to build.
== Weapon types==
Long War adds many new types of primary and secondary weapon. Most of these weapon types have a corresponding weapon at each technology level. The primary weapon types are, in descending order of average damage: '''SHIV/MEC Primary Weapons''' > '''Light Machine Guns''' and '''Shotguns''' > '''Heavy Rifles''', '''Marksman/Sniper rifles''' and '''Squad Automatic Weapon''' > '''Assault Rifles''' > '''Carbines''' and '''Submachine Guns'''. In general, the more powerful a weapon is the more unwieldy it is as well, and that will reflect in aim and mobility penalties/bonuses. The MEC version of heavy machine guns have a unusually large deviation of +/-4. And finally Shotguns' damage is severely impeded by damage reduction.

=== '''Pistols''' ===
The default sidearm, very similar to vanilla pistols, except that they do not have unlimited ammo. Pistols have shorter effective range than assault rifles unless the soldier possesses the Gunslinger perk.
{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | Pistols
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:Pistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pistol''' || 1-3 || 0% || 3-4 || 0 || 0 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} ||Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 0 ||None ||colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Laser Pistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]] '''Laser Pistol''' || 2-4 || 0% || 4-5 || +7 || 0 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}}|| Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer|| 15|| Beam weapons || 30 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 10
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Pistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]] '''Plasma Pistol''' || 3-5 || 0% || 5-7 || 0 || 0 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}}|| Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 90|| Compact Plasma Weapons || 175 || 25 || 20 || 1 || 12
|-
|}

==='''Machine Pistols'''===
A more damaging sidearm, but at the cost of added weight and decreased aim when drawn. Machine Pistols also tend to have very limited ammo. Useful for a Gunslinger soldier to finish off targets.
{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | Machine Pistols
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:Machine pistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Machine Pistol''' || 2-4 || 0% || 4-5 || -10 || -1 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 0|| None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Heater Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heater''' || 3-5 || 0% || 5-7 || -3 || -1 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 15|| Beam weapons || 30 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Gauss Autopistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Autopistol''' || 3-5 || 0% || 5-7 || -10 || -1 || 3 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 28 || Gauss Weapons || 40 || 4 || 1 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Blaster Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Blaster''' || 4-6 || 10% || 6-9 || -10 || -1 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 60 || Pulse Lasers || 80 || 12 || 8 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Mauler Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Mauler''' || 4-8 || 0% || 8-11 || -10 || -2 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 90 || Compact Plasma Weapons || 230|| 30 || 20 || 1 || 12
|-
|}

==='''SMG'''===
SMGs confer +3 mobility bonus and have the lowest damage and crit chance of all the primary weapons. Unlike Carbines, SMGs do not grant bonus accuracy. They're very useful for classes that need to reposition quickly to bring explosives and other area weapons against enemies, making them a good choice for Rocketeers and Engineers. Scouts, who might use the added mobility usually require something that packs a punch, like a Shotgun or any Rifle.
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
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!colspan="18" | SMGs
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:SMG Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Submachine Gun''' || 2-4 || 0% || 4-5 || 0 || +3 || 2 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 0|| None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Laser Shatterray Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Shatterray''' || 3-5 || 0% || 5-7 || +7 || +3 || 2 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 15 || Beam Weapons || 35 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Gauss Stuttergun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Stuttergun''' || 4-6 || 0% || 6-9 || 0 || +3 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || All || 28 || Gauss Weapons || 75 || 6 || 1 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Pulse Stengun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Stengun''' || 4-8 || 10% || 8-11 || 0 || +3 || 2 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 62 || Pulse Lasers || 120 || 15 || 10 || 0 ||12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Stormgun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Stormgun''' || 5-9 || 0% || 9-12 || 0 || +3 || 2 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 90 || Plasma Weapons || 200 || 30 || 20 || 1 || 12
|-
|}

==='''Carbines'''===
Carbines are light versions of assault rifles. They have reduced damage and crit chance, but confer +1 mobility and an accuracy bonus. They are ideal for inexperienced troops and those that need to move quickly, but experienced troops should switch to other weapons quickly as tougher aliens begin to appear.
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
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!colspan="18" | Carbines
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:Assault Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Assault Carbine''' || 2-4 || 5% || 4-5 || +7 || +1 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Laser Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Carbine''' || 3-5 || 5% || 5-7 || +15 || +1 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 15 || Beam weapons || 40 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Gauss Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Carbine''' || 4-6 || 5% || 6-9 || +7 || +1 || 4 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || All || 30 || Gauss Weapons || 95 || 8 || 2 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Pulse Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Carbine''' || 4-8 || 15% || 8-11 || +7 || +1 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 63 || Pulse Lasers || 180 || 15 || 15 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Carbine''' || 5-9 || 5% || 9-12 || +7 || +1 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 90 || Plasma Weapons || 280 || 30 || 25 || 1 || 12
|-
|}

==='''Assault Rifles'''===
These are the baseline assault rifles, similar to their vanilla counterparts. They have a respectable balance of firepower and accuracy. 
The Arc Rifle is a special Rifle that grants Disabling Shot with the regular 2-turn cooldown, although it does not confer the snap shot perk. It has low damage and ammo capacity. Useful early on for raiding small UFO's with capable soldiers and plenty of arc thrower uses.

{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | Assault Rifles
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:Assault Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Assault Rifle''' || 3-5 || 10% || 5-7 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Laser Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Rifle''' || 4-6 || 10% || 6-9 || +7 || 0 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 15 || Beam weapons || 50 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Gauss Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Rifle''' || 4-8 || 10% || 8-11 || 0 || 0 || 4 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || All || 30 || Gauss Weapons || 100 || 12 || 2 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image:Pulse Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Rifle''' || 5-9 || 20% || 9-12 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 60 || Pulse Lasers || 200 || 20 || 15 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Rifle''' || 6-10 || 10% || 10-14 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer|| 95 || Advanced Plasma Weapons || 380 || 40 || 30 || 2 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Arc Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Arc Rifle''' || 1-3 || 0% || 3-4 || 0 || 0 || 2 || 200 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Grants Disabling Shot, Cannot fire after any costly action || All except Gunners and Rocketeers || 25 || Xenoneurology New Combat Systems || 60 || 2 || 2 || 0 || 10
|-
|}

==='''Battle Rifle'''===
Battle Rifles are heavier versions of assault rifles. They do increased damage and have one additional burst relative to assault rifles, but carry a mobility penalty and a hefty aim penalty. They are best used by experienced soldiers who can aim well enough to offset the penalty (Infantry in particular, thanks to their high aim progression and ability to fire multiple times per turn cycle).
{| class="wikitable"
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! colspan="18" | Battle Rifles
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:Battle Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Battle Rifle''' || 4-6 || 10% || 6-9 || -15 || -1 || 4 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Heavy Laser Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heavy Laser Rifle''' || 4-8|| 15% || 8-11 || -8 || -1 || 4 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 20 || Advanced Beam Lasers || 70 || 4 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Heavy Gauss Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heavy Gauss Rifle''' || 5-9 || 15% || 9-12 || -15 || -1 || 5 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 40 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 140 || 15 || 5 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image:Heavy Pulse Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heavy Pulse Rifle''' || 6-10 || 25% || 10-14 || -15 || -1 || 4 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 67 || Advanced Pulse Lasers || 220 || 25 || 20 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Heavy Plasma Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heavy Plasma Rifle''' || 7-11 || 15% || 11-16 || -15 || -1 || 4 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 105 || Heavy Plasma Weapons || 400 || 40 || 28 || 2 || 18
|-
|}

==='''Shotgun'''===
Long War shotgun-type weapons are similar to their vanilla counterparts. High damage, high crit chance, short range. Shotguns are extremely accurate up close, but suffer from very poor accuracy over longer ranges (even with Cinematic Mode enabled). As such, they work best with highly mobile classes or those that only ever expect to engage enemies up close, like Assault and Scout soldiers. 

The sawed-off shotgun, a point-blank range, high damage sidearm with -1 mobility. It has only one shot, and this cannot be increased by ammo capacity upgrades.
{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | Shotguns
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Shotgun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Shotgun''' || 4-8 || 20% || 8-11 || 0 || 0 || 5 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage Reduction]] penalty || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Sawed-off Shotgun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Sawed-Off Shotgun''' || 4-8 || 5% || 8-11 || -15 || -1 || 1 || 3 || {{No Icon}} || Sidearm. Confers -1 mobility. Can only be used at point blank range. || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 1 || None || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 1
|-align=center
|[[Image: Scatter Laser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Scatter Laser''' || 5-9 || 20% || 9-12 || +7 || 0 || 3 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage reduction]] penalty
| Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 18 || Advanced Beam Weapons || 80 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Alloy Cannon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Alloy Cannon''' || 6-10 || 20% || 10-14 || 0 || 0 || 4 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage reduction]] penalty .33 DR reduction
| Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 32 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 150 || 18 || 5 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Scatter Blaster Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Scatter Blaster''' || 7-11 || 30% || 11-16 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage reduction]] penalty
| Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 62 || Advanced Pulse Weapons || 250 || 20 || 20 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Reflex Cannon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Reflex Cannon''' || 7-13 || 20% || 13-18 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage reduction]] penalty
| Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 102 || Sectopod Autopsy || 500 || 40 || 30 || 2 || 18
|-
|}

==='''Sniper Rifle'''===
Sniper Rifles are mostly identical to their vanilla counterparts and can only be used by Snipers. They have very long range (double the range of vanilla, making it functionally infinite), but can only be fired if the user has not taken a costly, including reloading, unless they have Snap Shot training. Long War sniper rifles have higher penalties when used at short range than vanilla sniper rifles. Sniper rifles can only overwatch fire up to visual range, so consider steadying the weapon instead to end a turn without targets (especially if you don't have snapshot training).
{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | Sniper Rifles
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Sniper Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Sniper Rifle''' || 4-6 || 25% || 6-9 || 0 || -1 || 5 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty || Sniper || 0 ||None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Laser Sniper Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Sniper Rifle''' || 4-8 || 25% || 8-11 || +7 || -1 || 3 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty || Sniper || 18 || Advanced Beam Weapons || 50 || 4 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gauss Long Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Long Rifle''' || 5-9 || 10% || 9-12 || 0 || -2 || 1 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty Grants HEAT Ammo perk. .33 DR reduction || Sniper || 35 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 250 || 15 || 5 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Pulse Sniper Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Sniper Rifle''' || 6-10 || 35% || 10-14 || 0 || -1 || 3 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty || Sniper || 65 || Advanced Pulse Lasers || 250 || 25|| 20 || 0|| 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Plasma Sniper Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Sniper Rifle''' || 7-11 || 25% || 11-16 || 0 || -1 || 3 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty || Sniper || 105 || Precision Plasma Weapons || 500 || 45 || 30 || 2 || 18
|-
|}

==='''Marksman Rifle'''===
Marksman rifles are smaller versions of sniper rifles that can also only be used by the Sniper and Scout classes. They have longer range than most weapons, but considerably shorter than sniper rifles nonetheless can be fired after moving. Like sniper rifles, marksman rifles have hefty accuracy penalties when used at short range. Marksman rifles have the same base damage as sniper rifles, but considerably lower crit chance. Marksman rifles can fire reaction shots up to their maximum range, and with Precision Shot they have unlimited range. 
Marksman Rifles are better suited to close-quarters maps where mobility is essential. 
{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | Marksman Rifles
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Marksman Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Marksman Rifle''' || 4-6 || 15% || 6-9 || 0 || 0 || 5 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty || Scout, Sniper || 0 ||None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Laser Strike Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Strike Rifle''' || 4-8 || 15% || 8-11 || +7 || 0 || 3 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty || Scout, Sniper || 18 || Advanced Beam Lasers || 50 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image: Alloy Strike Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Alloy Strike Rifle''' || 5-9 || 15% || 9-12 || 0 || 0 || 4 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty .33 DR reduction || Scout, Sniper || 35 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 120 || 15 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Blaster Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Blaster Rifle''' || 6-10 || 25% || 10-14 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty || Scout, Sniper || 67 || Advanced Pulse Lasers || 220 || 25 || 20 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Reflex Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Reflex Rifle''' || 7-11 || 15% || 11-16 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty || Scout, Sniper || 102 || Precision Plasma Weapons || 450 || 40 || 30 || 2 || 18
|-
|}

==='''Squad Automatic Weapon'''===
SAW-type weapons are the closest equivalent to vanilla LMGs in Long War. They can only be used by the Gunner class. SAWs have larger magazines and higher damage than assault rifles but confer a mobility penalty and can't be steadied. They allow faster movement than LMGs, but have less ammo and deal less damage. Suppressing a target with a SAW grants the Opportunist perk for any reaction fire triggered by enemy movement
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
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!colspan="18" | Squad Automatic Weapons
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: SAW Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''SAW''' || 4-6 || 0% || 6-9 || 0 || -1 || 6+2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Gunner || 0 ||None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Autolaser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Autolaser''' || 4-8 || 0% || 8-11 || +7 || -1 || 6+2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Gunner || 65 || Beam Weapons || 60 || 4 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gauss Autorifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Autorifle''' || 5-9 || 0% || 9-12 || 0 || -1 || 7+2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || Gunner || 32 || Gauss Weapons || 110 || 15 || 2 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Pulse Autoblaster Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Autoblaster''' || 6-10 || 10% || 10-14 || 0 || -1 || 6+2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Gunner || 65 || Pulse Lasers || 230 || 30 || 20 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Plasma Novagun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Novagun''' || 7-11 || 0% || 11-16 || 0 || -1 || 6+2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Gunner || 98 || Advanced Plasma Weapons || 500 || 45 || 30 || 2 || 20
|-
|}

==='''Light Machine Gun'''===
LMG-type weapons are larger versions of SAWs and are also only usable by the Gunner class. LMGs carry a mobility penalty and can only fire if the user has not moved, but in return they have even larger magazines and even higher damage than SAWs. LMGs also have a slightly longer range than most weapons and confer the Squadsight perk on the user so they can make use of the extra range. When an LMG is used to suppress, the reaction shot taken if the target moves suffers no aim penalty and can crit. LMGs can only overwatch fire up to visual range. 
LMGs are ideal for heavy defensive situations where the Gunner can situate themselves securely and guard a given area using normal and reaction fire.
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
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!colspan="18" | Light Machine Guns
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: LMG Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''LMG''' || 4-8 || 5% || 8-11 || 0 || -2 || 8+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight || Gunner || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gatling Laser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gatling Laser''' || 5-9 || 5% || 9-12 || +7 || -2 || 8+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight || Gunner || 18 || Beam weapons || 60 || 5 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gauss Machine Gun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Machine Gun''' || 6-10 || 5% || 10-14 || 0 || -2 || 9+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight .33 DR reduction || Gunner || 40 || Gauss Weapons || 140 || 16 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gatling Pulser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gatling Pulser''' || 7-11 || 15% || 11-16 || 0 || -2 || 8+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight || Gunner || 64 || Pulse Lasers || 215 || 35 || 22 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Plasma Dragon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Dragon''' || 7-13 || 5% || 13-18 || 0 || -2 || 8+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight || Gunner || 105 || Heavy Plasma Weapons || 500 || 48 || 32 || 2 || 20
|-
|}

==='''Rocket Launchers'''===
Sometimes you just have to make a good first-time impression. Sometimes you just happen to not have the right key for a door. Sometimes you just want to give those aliens a running start on their way back - do not fret, Xcom have some portable rocket launchers for you! 

Rockets are fairly simple to use - pick youр ability, aim and fire. There is always some guaranteed scatter which is limited by the soldier's Aim and Abilities. While mostly used by Rocketeers, Engineers also have the ability at later stages of the game to carry a rocket launcher. Carrying one forfeits your sidearm. For more information regarding rockets read bellow.
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
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!colspan="18" | Rocket Launchers
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Rocket Launcher Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Rocket Launcher''' || 4-10 || 0% || - || 0 || -1 || 1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Rocketeer|| 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Recoilless Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Recoilless Rifle''' || 6-12 || 0% || - || 0 || -1 || 1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || .33 DR reduction|| Rocketeer|| 35 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 100 || 25 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Blaster Launcher Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Blaster Launcher''' || 8-16 || 0% || - || 0 || -2 || 1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Rocketeer|| 110 || Fusion Weapons || 600 || 60 || 65 || 2 || 20
|-
|}

==='''MEC Primary Weapons'''===
MEC weapons (unsurprisingly) can only be used by MECs. They are high damage and have extended range equal to marksman rifles and LMGs, but do not confer the squadsight perk, so only MEC classes that have squadsight can use the extra range. Even MECs with squadsight can only overwatch fire up to visual range.
{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | MEC Primary Weapons
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Minigun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Minigun''' || 5-9 || 10% || 9-12 || 0 || 0 || 2+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || - || MEC || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Laser Lance Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Lance''' || 7-11 || 10% || 11-16 || +7 || 0 || 3+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || - || MEC || 20 || Advanced Beam Lasers || 80 || 5 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Railgun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Railgun''' || 7-13 || 10% || 13-18 || 0 || 0 || 4+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || .33 DR reduction, no suppression || MEC || 35 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 120 || 25 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Pulse Lance Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Lance''' || 7-13 || 20% || 13-18 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || - || MEC || 65 || Advanced Pulse Lasers || 240 || 35 || 24 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Particle Cannon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Particle Cannon''' || 8-14 || 10% || 14-19 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || No suppression || MEC || 105 || Heavy Plasma Weapons || 450 || 45 || 40 || 10 || 14
|-
|}

==='''MEC Seconday Weapons'''===

With each upgrade of the MEC suit the number of utility items decreases while the number of secondary weapon systems increases. As such, they can play a vital role in area control, squad support or neutralizing targets. Be advised that unlike vanilla in Long War you have to build the systems yourself and they do cost a lot of meld.

{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | MEC Secondary Weapons
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Flamethrower Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Flamethrower''' || 4-10 || 0% || 8-11 || - || -1 || 2 || Cone || {{No Icon}} || Incendiary area attack causing panic || MEC || 20 || MEC Warfare Systems || 85 || 0 || 0 || 5 || 7
|-align=center
|[[Image: Kinetic Strike Module Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Kinetic Strike Module''' || 9-15 || 0% || 15-21 || - || -1 || ∞ || Melee || {{No Icon}} || Close combat weapon || MEC || 22 || Floater Autopsy || 200 || 15 || 2 || 8 || 10
|-align=center
|[[Image: Grenade Launcher Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Grenade Launcher''' || 3-7 || 0% || - || - || -1 || 2 || 17 || {{No Icon}} || Indirect-fire Grenade Launcher || MEC || 35 || Gauss Weapons || 150 || 12 || 0 || 6 || 10
|-align=center
|[[Image: Proximity Mine Launcher Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Prox. Mine Launcher''' || 6-12 || 0% || - || - || -1 || 3 || 17 || {{No Icon}} || Fires Proximity Mines || MEC || 40 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 150 || 12 || 0 || 10 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Restorative Mist Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Restorative Mist''' || - || 0% || - || - || -1 || 1 || 17 || {{No Icon}} || Heals allies in an area || MEC || 28 || Thin Man Autopsy || 120 || 0 || 0 || 10 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Electro Pulse Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Electro Pulse''' || 3-9 || 0% || - || - || -1 || ∞ || 17 || {{No Icon}} || Stuns robots. 3 turn cooldown || MEC || 85 || EMP Weapons || 180 || 15 || 15 || 15 || 14
|-
|}

==='''SHIV Turrets'''===
Similar to the SAW but considerably more powerful, these heavy and expensive guns are the only weapons that the SHIV can use. While they suffer from the low base aim of all SHIV units, they can shred through enemies at close range, restrict enemy movement options when in overwatch mode thanks to certain equipment, and can deal massive damage to mechanized forces when equipped with HEAT ammo.
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
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!colspan="18" | SHIV Turrets
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Autocannon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Autocannon''' || 5-9 || 10% || 9-12 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || SHIV || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Superheavy Laser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Superheavy Laser''' || 6-10 || 10% || 10-14 || +7 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || SHIV || 20 || Advanced Beam Lasers || 80|| 5 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Sentry Gun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Sentry Gun''' || 7-11 || 10% || 11-16 || 0 || 0 || 4+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || SHIV || 35 || Gauss Weapons || 120|| 15 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Superheavy Pulser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Superheavy Pulser''' || 7-13 || 20% || 13-18 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || SHIV || 65 || Pulse Lasers || 300|| 35 || 25 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Superheavy Plasma Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Superheavy Plasma''' || 8-14 || 10% || 14-19 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || SHIV || 100 || Vehicular Plasma Weapons|| 500|| 45 || 40 ||3 || 21
|-
|}

== Steadying ==
Many weapons have an extra action available: Steady Weapon. This is a standard action, which will end the turn when used, which grants +20 aim for the next shot. The bonus is discarded if the soldier moves or switches weapon. This essentially allows a soldier to fire a carefully aimed shot over two turns. The use of perks such as '''Light 'Em Up''' and '''Double Tap''' only apply the bonus to the first shot taken. Note that sniper rifles can be steadied after moving, even if the operator cannot fire them. Steady Weapon's Aim bonus also applies to fired rockets, reducing rocket scatter.

== Explosives ==
In Long War explosives no longer do fixed damage to all targets in their radius. The further a target is from the center of the blast, the less damage it will take. This also applies to cover and cover in general is a little tougher than in vanilla.

== Rockets ==
Long War uses a revamped system for rocket accuracy. Aim is used when firing rockets to determine the chance of them landing on target, rather than the fixed 90% chance in vanilla. Rather than the vanilla behavior of a missed rocket veering wildly off course, Long War rockets never "miss" but will veer off course a random amount based on the soldier's Aim, with higher Aim giving less scatter. Lower range means less scatter, and the soldier achieving 120 Aim yields no scatter at any range. Rockets can also be fired after moving, but with increased scatter and reduced range. Rockets can not change height through scatter.

The hit chance shown while aiming is not a literal % hit chance, nor is it the maximum scatter distance. "Scatter" instead indicates the standard deviation on the X and Y axis. You can expect 68% of your rockets to hit within the standard deviation, 95% to hit within 2 times the standard deviation, and 99.7% to hit within 3 times the standard deviation. Rockets can exceed even this degree of deviation, but the chance is negligible.

Unblocked (no "Shot is Blocked" warning) rockets that veer off course will travel through most destructible terrain to their destination, destroying it in the process. If they encounter an allied or enemy pawn, they will detonate immediately.

[[Category: Long War]]

Weapons (Long War)

2014-11-08T02:05:49Z

Boris: /* Sniper Rifle */ Removed "+1" from all ammo counts. Since SAWs are the only exception, I'm just adding note "+1 ammo (+2 for SAWs)" to Hi Cap Mags.

{{CheckOutdated (Long War)|b14}}
Long War makes several changes to weapons:
* There are five tiers of weapons: Conventional/Ballistic, Beam Laser, Gauss, Pulse Laser, Plasma.
* There are several additional types of primary and secondary weapon available in each tier.
* Many weapons can be Steadied as an action to improve aim for the next turn.
* Explosives no longer do fixed damage, and their damage reduces the further a target is from the center of the blast.
* Rocket launchers use a revamped accuracy system using the soldier's aim.
==Weapon tiers==
===Conventional/Ballistic===
These are the basic weapons you start with - and whilst they're okay to begin with, they're not going to be up to scratch in the long run. The sawed-off shotgun is unique to this tier. Ballistic weapons use the same models as EXALT ballistic weapons in vanilla.

===Beam Lasers===
Early beam lasers form the second tier of weapons, and all carry a small inherent accuracy bonus, which can make them good 'training' weapons for inexperienced troopers or as aiming aid for rocketeers in their aiming of explosives (much like you might otherwise issue them regular carbines). They also have a little more firepower than Ballistic weapons, but it still won't be enough in the long run. Although skipping laser weaponry in vanilla is a viable and at times easy-to-pull-off gambit, in long war expense of gauss weapons combined with the tighter economy makes this less appealing, and the aim bonus beam lasers confer makes them arguably better early game than gauss anyway. Beam Lasers use the same visuals as EXALT laser weapons in vanilla.

===Gauss===
Gauss weapons return to ballistic projectiles but elerium power sources make man-portable magnetic accelerators practical; combined with alloy-based projectiles, it's a recipe for pretty formidable personal weaponry. In general Gauss weapons have a larger clip size, which can make this tier of weapons preferable for soldiers that has ammo-intensive perks or abilities such as flush ,suppression, collateral damage, in the zone, close combat specialist, close encounters, light 'em up, and rapid fire. Uniquely, the sniper rifle of this tier--the Gauss long rifle--grants snipers the HEAT ammo perk, whom otherwise can't obtain said perk normally. This makes Gauss snipers a powerful counter to mechanical leaders/bosses whom can have over 50 health and a staggering amount of damage reduction; though in return, the Gauss long rifle has a rather inconvenient clip size of 1. Gauss weapons use the original XCOM weapon models.

Note: There are plans to give this tier of weaponry additional damage reduction penetration in '''future editions''' of the mod. (b14)

===Pulse Lasers===
Refining and enhancing laser technology allows for the development of pulse laser weaponry, another step up in terms of firepower. Pulse laser weapons have a bonus to their critical hit chance, which might make them more preferable to laser weapons in the hands of crit-focused assaults and snipers. They use the same visuals as XCOM-built laser weaponry.
===Plasma===
Plasma tier weapons are the most powerful in terms of raw damage, but also expensive and hard to obtain; building them requires captured alien weapons as production components... which means you'll have to stun and capture aliens for every weapon you want to build.
== Weapon types==
Long War adds many new types of primary and secondary weapon. Most of these weapon types have a corresponding weapon at each technology level. The primary weapon types are, in descending order of average damage: '''SHIV/MEC Primary Weapons''' > '''Light Machine Guns''' and '''Shotguns''' > '''Heavy Rifles''', '''Marksman/Sniper rifles''' and '''Squad Automatic Weapon''' > '''Assault Rifles''' > '''Carbines''' and '''Submachine Guns'''. In general, the more powerful a weapon is the more unwieldy it is as well, and that will reflect in aim and mobility penalties/bonuses. The MEC version of heavy machine guns have a unusually large deviation of +/-4. And finally Shotguns' damage is severely impeded by damage reduction.

=== '''Pistols''' ===
The default sidearm, very similar to vanilla pistols, except that they do not have unlimited ammo. Pistols have shorter effective range than assault rifles unless the soldier possesses the Gunslinger perk.
{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | Pistols
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:Pistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pistol''' || 1-3 || 0% || 3-4 || 0 || 0 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} ||Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 0 ||None ||colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Laser Pistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]] '''Laser Pistol''' || 2-4 || 0% || 4-5 || +7 || 0 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}}|| Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer|| 15|| Beam weapons || 30 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 10
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Pistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]] '''Plasma Pistol''' || 3-5 || 0% || 5-7 || 0 || 0 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}}|| Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 90|| Compact Plasma Weapons || 175 || 25 || 20 || 1 || 12
|-
|}

==='''Machine Pistols'''===
A more damaging sidearm, but at the cost of added weight and decreased aim when drawn. Machine Pistols also tend to have very limited ammo. Useful for a Gunslinger soldier to finish off targets.
{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | Machine Pistols
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:Machine pistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Machine Pistol''' || 2-4 || 0% || 4-5 || -10 || -1 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 0|| None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Heater Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heater''' || 3-5 || 0% || 5-7 || -3 || -1 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 15|| Beam weapons || 30 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Gauss Autopistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Autopistol''' || 3-5 || 0% || 5-7 || -10 || -1 || 3 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 28 || Gauss Weapons || 40 || 4 || 1 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Blaster Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Blaster''' || 4-6 || 10% || 6-9 || -10 || -1 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 60 || Pulse Lasers || 80 || 12 || 8 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Mauler Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Mauler''' || 4-8 || 0% || 8-11 || -10 || -2 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 90 || Compact Plasma Weapons || 230|| 30 || 20 || 1 || 12
|-
|}

==='''SMG'''===
SMGs confer +3 mobility bonus and have the lowest damage and crit chance of all the primary weapons. Unlike Carbines, SMGs do not grant bonus accuracy. They're very useful for classes that need to reposition quickly to bring explosives and other area weapons against enemies, making them a good choice for Rocketeers and Engineers. Scouts, who might use the added mobility usually require something that packs a punch, like a Shotgun or any Rifle.
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
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!colspan="18" | SMGs
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:SMG Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Submachine Gun''' || 2-4 || 0% || 4-5 || 0 || +3 || 2 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 0|| None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Laser Shatterray Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Shatterray''' || 3-5 || 0% || 5-7 || +7 || +3 || 2 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 15 || Beam Weapons || 35 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Gauss Stuttergun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Stuttergun''' || 4-6 || 0% || 6-9 || 0 || +3 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || All || 28 || Gauss Weapons || 75 || 6 || 1 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Pulse Stengun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Stengun''' || 4-8 || 10% || 8-11 || 0 || +3 || 2 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 62 || Pulse Lasers || 120 || 15 || 10 || 0 ||12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Stormgun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Stormgun''' || 5-9 || 0% || 9-12 || 0 || +3 || 2 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 90 || Plasma Weapons || 200 || 30 || 20 || 1 || 12
|-
|}

==='''Carbines'''===
Carbines are light versions of assault rifles. They have reduced damage and crit chance, but confer +1 mobility and an accuracy bonus. They are ideal for inexperienced troops and those that need to move quickly, but experienced troops should switch to other weapons quickly as tougher aliens begin to appear.
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
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!colspan="18" | Carbines
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:Assault Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Assault Carbine''' || 2-4 || 5% || 4-5 || +7 || +1 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Laser Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Carbine''' || 3-5 || 5% || 5-7 || +15 || +1 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 15 || Beam weapons || 40 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Gauss Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Carbine''' || 4-6 || 5% || 6-9 || +7 || +1 || 4 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || All || 30 || Gauss Weapons || 95 || 8 || 2 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Pulse Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Carbine''' || 4-8 || 15% || 8-11 || +7 || +1 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 63 || Pulse Lasers || 180 || 15 || 15 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Carbine''' || 5-9 || 5% || 9-12 || +7 || +1 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 90 || Plasma Weapons || 280 || 30 || 25 || 1 || 12
|-
|}

==='''Assault Rifles'''===
These are the baseline assault rifles, similar to their vanilla counterparts. They have a respectable balance of firepower and accuracy. 
The Arc Rifle is a special Rifle that grants Disabling Shot with the regular 2-turn cooldown, although it does not confer the snap shot perk. It has low damage and ammo capacity. Useful early on for raiding small UFO's with capable soldiers and plenty of arc thrower uses.

{| class="wikitable"
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|-
!colspan="18" | Assault Rifles
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:Assault Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Assault Rifle''' || 3-5 || 10% || 5-7 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Laser Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Rifle''' || 4-6 || 10% || 6-9 || +7 || 0 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 15 || Beam weapons || 50 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Gauss Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Rifle''' || 4-8 || 10% || 8-11 || 0 || 0 || 4 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || All || 30 || Gauss Weapons || 100 || 12 || 2 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image:Pulse Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Rifle''' || 5-9 || 20% || 9-12 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 60 || Pulse Lasers || 200 || 20 || 15 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Rifle''' || 6-10 || 10% || 10-14 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer|| 95 || Advanced Plasma Weapons || 380 || 40 || 30 || 2 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Arc Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Arc Rifle''' || 1-3 || 0% || 3-4 || 0 || 0 || 2 || 200 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Grants Disabling Shot, Cannot fire after any costly action || All except Gunners and Rocketeers || 25 || Xenoneurology New Combat Systems || 60 || 2 || 2 || 0 || 10
|-
|}

==='''Battle Rifle'''===
Battle Rifles are heavier versions of assault rifles. They do increased damage and have one additional burst relative to assault rifles, but carry a mobility penalty and a hefty aim penalty. They are best used by experienced soldiers who can aim well enough to offset the penalty (Infantry in particular, thanks to their high aim progression and ability to fire multiple times per turn cycle).
{| class="wikitable"
|+
|-
! colspan="18" | Battle Rifles
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:Battle Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Battle Rifle''' || 4-6 || 10% || 6-9 || -15 || -1 || 4 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Heavy Laser Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heavy Laser Rifle''' || 4-8|| 15% || 8-11 || -8 || -1 || 4 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 20 || Advanced Beam Lasers || 70 || 4 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Heavy Gauss Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heavy Gauss Rifle''' || 5-9 || 15% || 9-12 || -15 || -1 || 5 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 40 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 140 || 15 || 5 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image:Heavy Pulse Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heavy Pulse Rifle''' || 6-10 || 25% || 10-14 || -15 || -1 || 4 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 67 || Advanced Pulse Lasers || 220 || 25 || 20 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Heavy Plasma Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heavy Plasma Rifle''' || 7-11 || 15% || 11-16 || -15 || -1 || 4 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 105 || Heavy Plasma Weapons || 400 || 40 || 28 || 2 || 18
|-
|}

==='''Shotgun'''===
Long War shotgun-type weapons are similar to their vanilla counterparts. High damage, high crit chance, short range. Shotguns are extremely accurate up close, but suffer from very poor accuracy over longer ranges (even with Cinematic Mode enabled). As such, they work best with highly mobile classes or those that only ever expect to engage enemies up close, like Assault and Scout soldiers. 

The sawed-off shotgun, a point-blank range, high damage sidearm with -1 mobility. It has only one shot, and this cannot be increased by ammo capacity upgrades.
{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | Shotguns
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Shotgun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Shotgun''' || 4-8 || 20% || 8-11 || 0 || 0 || 5 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage Reduction]] penalty || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Sawed-off Shotgun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Sawed-Off Shotgun''' || 4-8 || 5% || 8-11 || -15 || -1 || 1 || 3 || {{No Icon}} || Sidearm. Confers -1 mobility. Can only be used at point blank range. || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 1 || None || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 1
|-align=center
|[[Image: Scatter Laser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Scatter Laser''' || 5-9 || 20% || 9-12 || +7 || 0 || 3 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage reduction]] penalty
| Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 18 || Advanced Beam Weapons || 80 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Alloy Cannon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Alloy Cannon''' || 6-10 || 20% || 10-14 || 0 || 0 || 4 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage reduction]] penalty .33 DR reduction
| Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 32 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 150 || 18 || 5 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Scatter Blaster Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Scatter Blaster''' || 7-11 || 30% || 11-16 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage reduction]] penalty
| Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 62 || Advanced Pulse Weapons || 250 || 20 || 20 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Reflex Cannon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Reflex Cannon''' || 7-13 || 20% || 13-18 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage reduction]] penalty
| Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 102 || Sectopod Autopsy || 500 || 40 || 30 || 2 || 18
|-
|}

==='''Sniper Rifle'''===
Sniper Rifles are mostly identical to their vanilla counterparts and can only be used by Snipers. They have very long range (double the range of vanilla, making it functionally infinite), but can only be fired if the user has not taken a costly, including reloading, unless they have Snap Shot training. Long War sniper rifles have higher penalties when used at short range than vanilla sniper rifles. Sniper rifles can only overwatch fire up to visual range, so consider steadying the weapon instead to end a turn without targets (especially if you don't have snapshot training).
{| class="wikitable"
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|-
!colspan="18" | Sniper Rifles
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Sniper Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Sniper Rifle''' || 4-6 || 25% || 6-9 || 0 || -1 || 5 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty || Sniper || 0 ||None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Laser Sniper Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Sniper Rifle''' || 4-8 || 25% || 8-11 || +7 || -1 || 3 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty || Sniper || 18 || Advanced Beam Weapons || 50 || 4 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gauss Long Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Long Rifle''' || 5-9 || 10% || 9-12 || 0 || -2 || 1 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty Grants HEAT Ammo perk. .33 DR reduction || Sniper || 35 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 250 || 15 || 5 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Pulse Sniper Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Sniper Rifle''' || 6-10 || 35% || 10-14 || 0 || -1 || 3 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty || Sniper || 65 || Advanced Pulse Lasers || 250 || 25|| 20 || 0|| 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Plasma Sniper Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Sniper Rifle''' || 7-11 || 25% || 11-16 || 0 || -1 || 3 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty || Sniper || 105 || Precision Plasma Weapons || 500 || 45 || 30 || 2 || 18
|-
|}

==='''Marksman Rifle'''===
Marksman rifles are smaller versions of sniper rifles that can also only be used by the Sniper and Scout classes. They have longer range than most weapons, but considerably shorter than sniper rifles nonetheless can be fired after moving. Like sniper rifles, marksman rifles have hefty accuracy penalties when used at short range. Marksman rifles have the same base damage as sniper rifles, but considerably lower crit chance. Marksman rifles can fire reaction shots up to their maximum range, and with Precision Shot they have unlimited range. 
Marksman Rifles are better suited to close-quarters maps where mobility is essential. 
{| class="wikitable"
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|-
!colspan="18" | Marksman Rifles
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Marksman Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Marksman Rifle''' || 4-6 || 15% || 6-9 || 0 || 0 || 5+1 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty || Scout, Sniper || 0 ||None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Laser Strike Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Strike Rifle''' || 4-8 || 15% || 8-11 || +7 || 0 || 3+1 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty || Scout, Sniper || 18 || Advanced Beam Lasers || 50 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image: Alloy Strike Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Alloy Strike Rifle''' || 5-9 || 15% || 9-12 || 0 || 0 || 4+1 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty .33 DR reduction || Scout, Sniper || 35 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 120 || 15 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Blaster Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Blaster Rifle''' || 6-10 || 25% || 10-14 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty || Scout, Sniper || 67 || Advanced Pulse Lasers || 220 || 25 || 20 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Reflex Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Reflex Rifle''' || 7-11 || 15% || 11-16 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty || Scout, Sniper || 102 || Precision Plasma Weapons || 450 || 40 || 30 || 2 || 18
|-
|}

==='''Squad Automatic Weapon'''===
SAW-type weapons are the closest equivalent to vanilla LMGs in Long War. They can only be used by the Gunner class. SAWs have larger magazines and higher damage than assault rifles but confer a mobility penalty and can't be steadied. They allow faster movement than LMGs, but have less ammo and deal less damage. Suppressing a target with a SAW grants the Opportunist perk for any reaction fire triggered by enemy movement
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
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!colspan="18" | Squad Automatic Weapons
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: SAW Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''SAW''' || 4-6 || 0% || 6-9 || 0 || -1 || 6+2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Gunner || 0 ||None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Autolaser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Autolaser''' || 4-8 || 0% || 8-11 || +7 || -1 || 6+2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Gunner || 65 || Beam Weapons || 60 || 4 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gauss Autorifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Autorifle''' || 5-9 || 0% || 9-12 || 0 || -1 || 7+2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || Gunner || 32 || Gauss Weapons || 110 || 15 || 2 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Pulse Autoblaster Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Autoblaster''' || 6-10 || 10% || 10-14 || 0 || -1 || 6+2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Gunner || 65 || Pulse Lasers || 230 || 30 || 20 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Plasma Novagun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Novagun''' || 7-11 || 0% || 11-16 || 0 || -1 || 6+2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Gunner || 98 || Advanced Plasma Weapons || 500 || 45 || 30 || 2 || 20
|-
|}

==='''Light Machine Gun'''===
LMG-type weapons are larger versions of SAWs and are also only usable by the Gunner class. LMGs carry a mobility penalty and can only fire if the user has not moved, but in return they have even larger magazines and even higher damage than SAWs. LMGs also have a slightly longer range than most weapons and confer the Squadsight perk on the user so they can make use of the extra range. When an LMG is used to suppress, the reaction shot taken if the target moves suffers no aim penalty and can crit. LMGs can only overwatch fire up to visual range. 
LMGs are ideal for heavy defensive situations where the Gunner can situate themselves securely and guard a given area using normal and reaction fire.
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
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!colspan="18" | Light Machine Guns
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: LMG Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''LMG''' || 4-8 || 5% || 8-11 || 0 || -2 || 8+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight || Gunner || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gatling Laser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gatling Laser''' || 5-9 || 5% || 9-12 || +7 || -2 || 8+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight || Gunner || 18 || Beam weapons || 60 || 5 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gauss Machine Gun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Machine Gun''' || 6-10 || 5% || 10-14 || 0 || -2 || 9+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight .33 DR reduction || Gunner || 40 || Gauss Weapons || 140 || 16 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gatling Pulser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gatling Pulser''' || 7-11 || 15% || 11-16 || 0 || -2 || 8+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight || Gunner || 64 || Pulse Lasers || 215 || 35 || 22 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Plasma Dragon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Dragon''' || 7-13 || 5% || 13-18 || 0 || -2 || 8+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight || Gunner || 105 || Heavy Plasma Weapons || 500 || 48 || 32 || 2 || 20
|-
|}

==='''Rocket Launchers'''===
Sometimes you just have to make a good first-time impression. Sometimes you just happen to not have the right key for a door. Sometimes you just want to give those aliens a running start on their way back - do not fret, Xcom have some portable rocket launchers for you! 

Rockets are fairly simple to use - pick youр ability, aim and fire. There is always some guaranteed scatter which is limited by the soldier's Aim and Abilities. While mostly used by Rocketeers, Engineers also have the ability at later stages of the game to carry a rocket launcher. Carrying one forfeits your sidearm. For more information regarding rockets read bellow.
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
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!colspan="18" | Rocket Launchers
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Rocket Launcher Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Rocket Launcher''' || 4-10 || 0% || - || 0 || -1 || 1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Rocketeer|| 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Recoilless Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Recoilless Rifle''' || 6-12 || 0% || - || 0 || -1 || 1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || .33 DR reduction|| Rocketeer|| 35 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 100 || 25 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Blaster Launcher Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Blaster Launcher''' || 8-16 || 0% || - || 0 || -2 || 1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Rocketeer|| 110 || Fusion Weapons || 600 || 60 || 65 || 2 || 20
|-
|}

==='''MEC Primary Weapons'''===
MEC weapons (unsurprisingly) can only be used by MECs. They are high damage and have extended range equal to marksman rifles and LMGs, but do not confer the squadsight perk, so only MEC classes that have squadsight can use the extra range. Even MECs with squadsight can only overwatch fire up to visual range.
{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | MEC Primary Weapons
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Minigun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Minigun''' || 5-9 || 10% || 9-12 || 0 || 0 || 2+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || - || MEC || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Laser Lance Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Lance''' || 7-11 || 10% || 11-16 || +7 || 0 || 3+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || - || MEC || 20 || Advanced Beam Lasers || 80 || 5 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Railgun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Railgun''' || 7-13 || 10% || 13-18 || 0 || 0 || 4+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || .33 DR reduction, no suppression || MEC || 35 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 120 || 25 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Pulse Lance Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Lance''' || 7-13 || 20% || 13-18 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || - || MEC || 65 || Advanced Pulse Lasers || 240 || 35 || 24 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Particle Cannon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Particle Cannon''' || 8-14 || 10% || 14-19 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || No suppression || MEC || 105 || Heavy Plasma Weapons || 450 || 45 || 40 || 10 || 14
|-
|}

==='''MEC Seconday Weapons'''===

With each upgrade of the MEC suit the number of utility items decreases while the number of secondary weapon systems increases. As such, they can play a vital role in area control, squad support or neutralizing targets. Be advised that unlike vanilla in Long War you have to build the systems yourself and they do cost a lot of meld.

{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | MEC Secondary Weapons
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Flamethrower Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Flamethrower''' || 4-10 || 0% || 8-11 || - || -1 || 2 || Cone || {{No Icon}} || Incendiary area attack causing panic || MEC || 20 || MEC Warfare Systems || 85 || 0 || 0 || 5 || 7
|-align=center
|[[Image: Kinetic Strike Module Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Kinetic Strike Module''' || 9-15 || 0% || 15-21 || - || -1 || ∞ || Melee || {{No Icon}} || Close combat weapon || MEC || 22 || Floater Autopsy || 200 || 15 || 2 || 8 || 10
|-align=center
|[[Image: Grenade Launcher Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Grenade Launcher''' || 3-7 || 0% || - || - || -1 || 2 || 17 || {{No Icon}} || Indirect-fire Grenade Launcher || MEC || 35 || Gauss Weapons || 150 || 12 || 0 || 6 || 10
|-align=center
|[[Image: Proximity Mine Launcher Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Prox. Mine Launcher''' || 6-12 || 0% || - || - || -1 || 3 || 17 || {{No Icon}} || Fires Proximity Mines || MEC || 40 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 150 || 12 || 0 || 10 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Restorative Mist Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Restorative Mist''' || - || 0% || - || - || -1 || 1 || 17 || {{No Icon}} || Heals allies in an area || MEC || 28 || Thin Man Autopsy || 120 || 0 || 0 || 10 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Electro Pulse Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Electro Pulse''' || 3-9 || 0% || - || - || -1 || ∞ || 17 || {{No Icon}} || Stuns robots. 3 turn cooldown || MEC || 85 || EMP Weapons || 180 || 15 || 15 || 15 || 14
|-
|}

==='''SHIV Turrets'''===
Similar to the SAW but considerably more powerful, these heavy and expensive guns are the only weapons that the SHIV can use. While they suffer from the low base aim of all SHIV units, they can shred through enemies at close range, restrict enemy movement options when in overwatch mode thanks to certain equipment, and can deal massive damage to mechanized forces when equipped with HEAT ammo.
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
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!colspan="18" | SHIV Turrets
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Autocannon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Autocannon''' || 5-9 || 10% || 9-12 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || SHIV || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Superheavy Laser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Superheavy Laser''' || 6-10 || 10% || 10-14 || +7 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || SHIV || 20 || Advanced Beam Lasers || 80|| 5 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Sentry Gun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Sentry Gun''' || 7-11 || 10% || 11-16 || 0 || 0 || 4+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || SHIV || 35 || Gauss Weapons || 120|| 15 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Superheavy Pulser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Superheavy Pulser''' || 7-13 || 20% || 13-18 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || SHIV || 65 || Pulse Lasers || 300|| 35 || 25 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Superheavy Plasma Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Superheavy Plasma''' || 8-14 || 10% || 14-19 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || SHIV || 100 || Vehicular Plasma Weapons|| 500|| 45 || 40 ||3 || 21
|-
|}

== Steadying ==
Many weapons have an extra action available: Steady Weapon. This is a standard action, which will end the turn when used, which grants +20 aim for the next shot. The bonus is discarded if the soldier moves or switches weapon. This essentially allows a soldier to fire a carefully aimed shot over two turns. The use of perks such as '''Light 'Em Up''' and '''Double Tap''' only apply the bonus to the first shot taken. Note that sniper rifles can be steadied after moving, even if the operator cannot fire them. Steady Weapon's Aim bonus also applies to fired rockets, reducing rocket scatter.

== Explosives ==
In Long War explosives no longer do fixed damage to all targets in their radius. The further a target is from the center of the blast, the less damage it will take. This also applies to cover and cover in general is a little tougher than in vanilla.

== Rockets ==
Long War uses a revamped system for rocket accuracy. Aim is used when firing rockets to determine the chance of them landing on target, rather than the fixed 90% chance in vanilla. Rather than the vanilla behavior of a missed rocket veering wildly off course, Long War rockets never "miss" but will veer off course a random amount based on the soldier's Aim, with higher Aim giving less scatter. Lower range means less scatter, and the soldier achieving 120 Aim yields no scatter at any range. Rockets can also be fired after moving, but with increased scatter and reduced range. Rockets can not change height through scatter.

The hit chance shown while aiming is not a literal % hit chance, nor is it the maximum scatter distance. "Scatter" instead indicates the standard deviation on the X and Y axis. You can expect 68% of your rockets to hit within the standard deviation, 95% to hit within 2 times the standard deviation, and 99.7% to hit within 3 times the standard deviation. Rockets can exceed even this degree of deviation, but the chance is negligible.

Unblocked (no "Shot is Blocked" warning) rockets that veer off course will travel through most destructible terrain to their destination, destroying it in the process. If they encounter an allied or enemy pawn, they will detonate immediately.

[[Category: Long War]]

Weapons (Long War)

2014-11-08T02:05:04Z

Boris: /* Shotgun */ Removed "+1" from all ammo counts. Since SAWs are the only exception, I'm just adding note "+1 ammo (+2 for SAWs)" to Hi Cap Mags.

{{CheckOutdated (Long War)|b14}}
Long War makes several changes to weapons:
* There are five tiers of weapons: Conventional/Ballistic, Beam Laser, Gauss, Pulse Laser, Plasma.
* There are several additional types of primary and secondary weapon available in each tier.
* Many weapons can be Steadied as an action to improve aim for the next turn.
* Explosives no longer do fixed damage, and their damage reduces the further a target is from the center of the blast.
* Rocket launchers use a revamped accuracy system using the soldier's aim.
==Weapon tiers==
===Conventional/Ballistic===
These are the basic weapons you start with - and whilst they're okay to begin with, they're not going to be up to scratch in the long run. The sawed-off shotgun is unique to this tier. Ballistic weapons use the same models as EXALT ballistic weapons in vanilla.

===Beam Lasers===
Early beam lasers form the second tier of weapons, and all carry a small inherent accuracy bonus, which can make them good 'training' weapons for inexperienced troopers or as aiming aid for rocketeers in their aiming of explosives (much like you might otherwise issue them regular carbines). They also have a little more firepower than Ballistic weapons, but it still won't be enough in the long run. Although skipping laser weaponry in vanilla is a viable and at times easy-to-pull-off gambit, in long war expense of gauss weapons combined with the tighter economy makes this less appealing, and the aim bonus beam lasers confer makes them arguably better early game than gauss anyway. Beam Lasers use the same visuals as EXALT laser weapons in vanilla.

===Gauss===
Gauss weapons return to ballistic projectiles but elerium power sources make man-portable magnetic accelerators practical; combined with alloy-based projectiles, it's a recipe for pretty formidable personal weaponry. In general Gauss weapons have a larger clip size, which can make this tier of weapons preferable for soldiers that has ammo-intensive perks or abilities such as flush ,suppression, collateral damage, in the zone, close combat specialist, close encounters, light 'em up, and rapid fire. Uniquely, the sniper rifle of this tier--the Gauss long rifle--grants snipers the HEAT ammo perk, whom otherwise can't obtain said perk normally. This makes Gauss snipers a powerful counter to mechanical leaders/bosses whom can have over 50 health and a staggering amount of damage reduction; though in return, the Gauss long rifle has a rather inconvenient clip size of 1. Gauss weapons use the original XCOM weapon models.

Note: There are plans to give this tier of weaponry additional damage reduction penetration in '''future editions''' of the mod. (b14)

===Pulse Lasers===
Refining and enhancing laser technology allows for the development of pulse laser weaponry, another step up in terms of firepower. Pulse laser weapons have a bonus to their critical hit chance, which might make them more preferable to laser weapons in the hands of crit-focused assaults and snipers. They use the same visuals as XCOM-built laser weaponry.
===Plasma===
Plasma tier weapons are the most powerful in terms of raw damage, but also expensive and hard to obtain; building them requires captured alien weapons as production components... which means you'll have to stun and capture aliens for every weapon you want to build.
== Weapon types==
Long War adds many new types of primary and secondary weapon. Most of these weapon types have a corresponding weapon at each technology level. The primary weapon types are, in descending order of average damage: '''SHIV/MEC Primary Weapons''' > '''Light Machine Guns''' and '''Shotguns''' > '''Heavy Rifles''', '''Marksman/Sniper rifles''' and '''Squad Automatic Weapon''' > '''Assault Rifles''' > '''Carbines''' and '''Submachine Guns'''. In general, the more powerful a weapon is the more unwieldy it is as well, and that will reflect in aim and mobility penalties/bonuses. The MEC version of heavy machine guns have a unusually large deviation of +/-4. And finally Shotguns' damage is severely impeded by damage reduction.

=== '''Pistols''' ===
The default sidearm, very similar to vanilla pistols, except that they do not have unlimited ammo. Pistols have shorter effective range than assault rifles unless the soldier possesses the Gunslinger perk.
{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | Pistols
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:Pistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pistol''' || 1-3 || 0% || 3-4 || 0 || 0 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} ||Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 0 ||None ||colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Laser Pistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]] '''Laser Pistol''' || 2-4 || 0% || 4-5 || +7 || 0 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}}|| Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer|| 15|| Beam weapons || 30 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 10
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Pistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]] '''Plasma Pistol''' || 3-5 || 0% || 5-7 || 0 || 0 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}}|| Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 90|| Compact Plasma Weapons || 175 || 25 || 20 || 1 || 12
|-
|}

==='''Machine Pistols'''===
A more damaging sidearm, but at the cost of added weight and decreased aim when drawn. Machine Pistols also tend to have very limited ammo. Useful for a Gunslinger soldier to finish off targets.
{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | Machine Pistols
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:Machine pistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Machine Pistol''' || 2-4 || 0% || 4-5 || -10 || -1 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 0|| None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Heater Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heater''' || 3-5 || 0% || 5-7 || -3 || -1 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 15|| Beam weapons || 30 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Gauss Autopistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Autopistol''' || 3-5 || 0% || 5-7 || -10 || -1 || 3 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 28 || Gauss Weapons || 40 || 4 || 1 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Blaster Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Blaster''' || 4-6 || 10% || 6-9 || -10 || -1 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 60 || Pulse Lasers || 80 || 12 || 8 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Mauler Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Mauler''' || 4-8 || 0% || 8-11 || -10 || -2 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 90 || Compact Plasma Weapons || 230|| 30 || 20 || 1 || 12
|-
|}

==='''SMG'''===
SMGs confer +3 mobility bonus and have the lowest damage and crit chance of all the primary weapons. Unlike Carbines, SMGs do not grant bonus accuracy. They're very useful for classes that need to reposition quickly to bring explosives and other area weapons against enemies, making them a good choice for Rocketeers and Engineers. Scouts, who might use the added mobility usually require something that packs a punch, like a Shotgun or any Rifle.
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:SMG Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Submachine Gun''' || 2-4 || 0% || 4-5 || 0 || +3 || 2 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 0|| None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Laser Shatterray Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Shatterray''' || 3-5 || 0% || 5-7 || +7 || +3 || 2 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 15 || Beam Weapons || 35 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Gauss Stuttergun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Stuttergun''' || 4-6 || 0% || 6-9 || 0 || +3 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || All || 28 || Gauss Weapons || 75 || 6 || 1 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Pulse Stengun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Stengun''' || 4-8 || 10% || 8-11 || 0 || +3 || 2 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 62 || Pulse Lasers || 120 || 15 || 10 || 0 ||12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Stormgun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Stormgun''' || 5-9 || 0% || 9-12 || 0 || +3 || 2 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 90 || Plasma Weapons || 200 || 30 || 20 || 1 || 12
|-
|}

==='''Carbines'''===
Carbines are light versions of assault rifles. They have reduced damage and crit chance, but confer +1 mobility and an accuracy bonus. They are ideal for inexperienced troops and those that need to move quickly, but experienced troops should switch to other weapons quickly as tougher aliens begin to appear.
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
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|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:Assault Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Assault Carbine''' || 2-4 || 5% || 4-5 || +7 || +1 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Laser Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Carbine''' || 3-5 || 5% || 5-7 || +15 || +1 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 15 || Beam weapons || 40 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Gauss Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Carbine''' || 4-6 || 5% || 6-9 || +7 || +1 || 4 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || All || 30 || Gauss Weapons || 95 || 8 || 2 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Pulse Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Carbine''' || 4-8 || 15% || 8-11 || +7 || +1 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 63 || Pulse Lasers || 180 || 15 || 15 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Carbine''' || 5-9 || 5% || 9-12 || +7 || +1 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 90 || Plasma Weapons || 280 || 30 || 25 || 1 || 12
|-
|}

==='''Assault Rifles'''===
These are the baseline assault rifles, similar to their vanilla counterparts. They have a respectable balance of firepower and accuracy. 
The Arc Rifle is a special Rifle that grants Disabling Shot with the regular 2-turn cooldown, although it does not confer the snap shot perk. It has low damage and ammo capacity. Useful early on for raiding small UFO's with capable soldiers and plenty of arc thrower uses.

{| class="wikitable"
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:Assault Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Assault Rifle''' || 3-5 || 10% || 5-7 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Laser Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Rifle''' || 4-6 || 10% || 6-9 || +7 || 0 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 15 || Beam weapons || 50 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Gauss Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Rifle''' || 4-8 || 10% || 8-11 || 0 || 0 || 4 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || All || 30 || Gauss Weapons || 100 || 12 || 2 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image:Pulse Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Rifle''' || 5-9 || 20% || 9-12 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 60 || Pulse Lasers || 200 || 20 || 15 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Rifle''' || 6-10 || 10% || 10-14 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer|| 95 || Advanced Plasma Weapons || 380 || 40 || 30 || 2 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Arc Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Arc Rifle''' || 1-3 || 0% || 3-4 || 0 || 0 || 2 || 200 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Grants Disabling Shot, Cannot fire after any costly action || All except Gunners and Rocketeers || 25 || Xenoneurology New Combat Systems || 60 || 2 || 2 || 0 || 10
|-
|}

==='''Battle Rifle'''===
Battle Rifles are heavier versions of assault rifles. They do increased damage and have one additional burst relative to assault rifles, but carry a mobility penalty and a hefty aim penalty. They are best used by experienced soldiers who can aim well enough to offset the penalty (Infantry in particular, thanks to their high aim progression and ability to fire multiple times per turn cycle).
{| class="wikitable"
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|-
! colspan="18" | Battle Rifles
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:Battle Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Battle Rifle''' || 4-6 || 10% || 6-9 || -15 || -1 || 4 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Heavy Laser Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heavy Laser Rifle''' || 4-8|| 15% || 8-11 || -8 || -1 || 4 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 20 || Advanced Beam Lasers || 70 || 4 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Heavy Gauss Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heavy Gauss Rifle''' || 5-9 || 15% || 9-12 || -15 || -1 || 5 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 40 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 140 || 15 || 5 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image:Heavy Pulse Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heavy Pulse Rifle''' || 6-10 || 25% || 10-14 || -15 || -1 || 4 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 67 || Advanced Pulse Lasers || 220 || 25 || 20 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Heavy Plasma Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heavy Plasma Rifle''' || 7-11 || 15% || 11-16 || -15 || -1 || 4 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 105 || Heavy Plasma Weapons || 400 || 40 || 28 || 2 || 18
|-
|}

==='''Shotgun'''===
Long War shotgun-type weapons are similar to their vanilla counterparts. High damage, high crit chance, short range. Shotguns are extremely accurate up close, but suffer from very poor accuracy over longer ranges (even with Cinematic Mode enabled). As such, they work best with highly mobile classes or those that only ever expect to engage enemies up close, like Assault and Scout soldiers. 

The sawed-off shotgun, a point-blank range, high damage sidearm with -1 mobility. It has only one shot, and this cannot be increased by ammo capacity upgrades.
{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | Shotguns
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Shotgun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Shotgun''' || 4-8 || 20% || 8-11 || 0 || 0 || 5 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage Reduction]] penalty || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Sawed-off Shotgun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Sawed-Off Shotgun''' || 4-8 || 5% || 8-11 || -15 || -1 || 1 || 3 || {{No Icon}} || Sidearm. Confers -1 mobility. Can only be used at point blank range. || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 1 || None || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 1
|-align=center
|[[Image: Scatter Laser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Scatter Laser''' || 5-9 || 20% || 9-12 || +7 || 0 || 3 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage reduction]] penalty
| Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 18 || Advanced Beam Weapons || 80 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Alloy Cannon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Alloy Cannon''' || 6-10 || 20% || 10-14 || 0 || 0 || 4 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage reduction]] penalty .33 DR reduction
| Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 32 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 150 || 18 || 5 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Scatter Blaster Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Scatter Blaster''' || 7-11 || 30% || 11-16 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage reduction]] penalty
| Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 62 || Advanced Pulse Weapons || 250 || 20 || 20 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Reflex Cannon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Reflex Cannon''' || 7-13 || 20% || 13-18 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage reduction]] penalty
| Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 102 || Sectopod Autopsy || 500 || 40 || 30 || 2 || 18
|-
|}

==='''Sniper Rifle'''===
Sniper Rifles are mostly identical to their vanilla counterparts and can only be used by Snipers. They have very long range (double the range of vanilla, making it functionally infinite), but can only be fired if the user has not taken a costly, including reloading, unless they have Snap Shot training. Long War sniper rifles have higher penalties when used at short range than vanilla sniper rifles. Sniper rifles can only overwatch fire up to visual range, so consider steadying the weapon instead to end a turn without targets (especially if you don't have snapshot training).
{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | Sniper Rifles
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Sniper Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Sniper Rifle''' || 4-6 || 25% || 6-9 || 0 || -1 || 5+1 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty || Sniper || 0 ||None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Laser Sniper Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Sniper Rifle''' || 4-8 || 25% || 8-11 || +7 || -1 || 3+1 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty || Sniper || 18 || Advanced Beam Weapons || 50 || 4 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gauss Long Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Long Rifle''' || 5-9 || 10% || 9-12 || 0 || -2 || 1+1 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty Grants HEAT Ammo perk. .33 DR reduction || Sniper || 35 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 250 || 15 || 5 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Pulse Sniper Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Sniper Rifle''' || 6-10 || 35% || 10-14 || 0 || -1 || 3+1 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty || Sniper || 65 || Advanced Pulse Lasers || 250 || 25|| 20 || 0|| 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Plasma Sniper Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Sniper Rifle''' || 7-11 || 25% || 11-16 || 0 || -1 || 3+1 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty || Sniper || 105 || Precision Plasma Weapons || 500 || 45 || 30 || 2 || 18
|-
|}

==='''Marksman Rifle'''===
Marksman rifles are smaller versions of sniper rifles that can also only be used by the Sniper and Scout classes. They have longer range than most weapons, but considerably shorter than sniper rifles nonetheless can be fired after moving. Like sniper rifles, marksman rifles have hefty accuracy penalties when used at short range. Marksman rifles have the same base damage as sniper rifles, but considerably lower crit chance. Marksman rifles can fire reaction shots up to their maximum range, and with Precision Shot they have unlimited range. 
Marksman Rifles are better suited to close-quarters maps where mobility is essential. 
{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | Marksman Rifles
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Marksman Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Marksman Rifle''' || 4-6 || 15% || 6-9 || 0 || 0 || 5+1 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty || Scout, Sniper || 0 ||None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Laser Strike Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Strike Rifle''' || 4-8 || 15% || 8-11 || +7 || 0 || 3+1 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty || Scout, Sniper || 18 || Advanced Beam Lasers || 50 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image: Alloy Strike Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Alloy Strike Rifle''' || 5-9 || 15% || 9-12 || 0 || 0 || 4+1 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty .33 DR reduction || Scout, Sniper || 35 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 120 || 15 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Blaster Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Blaster Rifle''' || 6-10 || 25% || 10-14 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty || Scout, Sniper || 67 || Advanced Pulse Lasers || 220 || 25 || 20 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Reflex Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Reflex Rifle''' || 7-11 || 15% || 11-16 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty || Scout, Sniper || 102 || Precision Plasma Weapons || 450 || 40 || 30 || 2 || 18
|-
|}

==='''Squad Automatic Weapon'''===
SAW-type weapons are the closest equivalent to vanilla LMGs in Long War. They can only be used by the Gunner class. SAWs have larger magazines and higher damage than assault rifles but confer a mobility penalty and can't be steadied. They allow faster movement than LMGs, but have less ammo and deal less damage. Suppressing a target with a SAW grants the Opportunist perk for any reaction fire triggered by enemy movement
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!colspan="18" | Squad Automatic Weapons
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: SAW Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''SAW''' || 4-6 || 0% || 6-9 || 0 || -1 || 6+2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Gunner || 0 ||None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Autolaser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Autolaser''' || 4-8 || 0% || 8-11 || +7 || -1 || 6+2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Gunner || 65 || Beam Weapons || 60 || 4 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gauss Autorifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Autorifle''' || 5-9 || 0% || 9-12 || 0 || -1 || 7+2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || Gunner || 32 || Gauss Weapons || 110 || 15 || 2 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Pulse Autoblaster Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Autoblaster''' || 6-10 || 10% || 10-14 || 0 || -1 || 6+2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Gunner || 65 || Pulse Lasers || 230 || 30 || 20 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Plasma Novagun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Novagun''' || 7-11 || 0% || 11-16 || 0 || -1 || 6+2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Gunner || 98 || Advanced Plasma Weapons || 500 || 45 || 30 || 2 || 20
|-
|}

==='''Light Machine Gun'''===
LMG-type weapons are larger versions of SAWs and are also only usable by the Gunner class. LMGs carry a mobility penalty and can only fire if the user has not moved, but in return they have even larger magazines and even higher damage than SAWs. LMGs also have a slightly longer range than most weapons and confer the Squadsight perk on the user so they can make use of the extra range. When an LMG is used to suppress, the reaction shot taken if the target moves suffers no aim penalty and can crit. LMGs can only overwatch fire up to visual range. 
LMGs are ideal for heavy defensive situations where the Gunner can situate themselves securely and guard a given area using normal and reaction fire.
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
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!colspan="18" | Light Machine Guns
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: LMG Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''LMG''' || 4-8 || 5% || 8-11 || 0 || -2 || 8+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight || Gunner || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gatling Laser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gatling Laser''' || 5-9 || 5% || 9-12 || +7 || -2 || 8+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight || Gunner || 18 || Beam weapons || 60 || 5 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gauss Machine Gun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Machine Gun''' || 6-10 || 5% || 10-14 || 0 || -2 || 9+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight .33 DR reduction || Gunner || 40 || Gauss Weapons || 140 || 16 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gatling Pulser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gatling Pulser''' || 7-11 || 15% || 11-16 || 0 || -2 || 8+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight || Gunner || 64 || Pulse Lasers || 215 || 35 || 22 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Plasma Dragon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Dragon''' || 7-13 || 5% || 13-18 || 0 || -2 || 8+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight || Gunner || 105 || Heavy Plasma Weapons || 500 || 48 || 32 || 2 || 20
|-
|}

==='''Rocket Launchers'''===
Sometimes you just have to make a good first-time impression. Sometimes you just happen to not have the right key for a door. Sometimes you just want to give those aliens a running start on their way back - do not fret, Xcom have some portable rocket launchers for you! 

Rockets are fairly simple to use - pick youр ability, aim and fire. There is always some guaranteed scatter which is limited by the soldier's Aim and Abilities. While mostly used by Rocketeers, Engineers also have the ability at later stages of the game to carry a rocket launcher. Carrying one forfeits your sidearm. For more information regarding rockets read bellow.
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!colspan="18" | Rocket Launchers
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Rocket Launcher Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Rocket Launcher''' || 4-10 || 0% || - || 0 || -1 || 1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Rocketeer|| 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Recoilless Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Recoilless Rifle''' || 6-12 || 0% || - || 0 || -1 || 1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || .33 DR reduction|| Rocketeer|| 35 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 100 || 25 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Blaster Launcher Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Blaster Launcher''' || 8-16 || 0% || - || 0 || -2 || 1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Rocketeer|| 110 || Fusion Weapons || 600 || 60 || 65 || 2 || 20
|-
|}

==='''MEC Primary Weapons'''===
MEC weapons (unsurprisingly) can only be used by MECs. They are high damage and have extended range equal to marksman rifles and LMGs, but do not confer the squadsight perk, so only MEC classes that have squadsight can use the extra range. Even MECs with squadsight can only overwatch fire up to visual range.
{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | MEC Primary Weapons
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Minigun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Minigun''' || 5-9 || 10% || 9-12 || 0 || 0 || 2+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || - || MEC || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Laser Lance Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Lance''' || 7-11 || 10% || 11-16 || +7 || 0 || 3+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || - || MEC || 20 || Advanced Beam Lasers || 80 || 5 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Railgun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Railgun''' || 7-13 || 10% || 13-18 || 0 || 0 || 4+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || .33 DR reduction, no suppression || MEC || 35 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 120 || 25 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Pulse Lance Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Lance''' || 7-13 || 20% || 13-18 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || - || MEC || 65 || Advanced Pulse Lasers || 240 || 35 || 24 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Particle Cannon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Particle Cannon''' || 8-14 || 10% || 14-19 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || No suppression || MEC || 105 || Heavy Plasma Weapons || 450 || 45 || 40 || 10 || 14
|-
|}

==='''MEC Seconday Weapons'''===

With each upgrade of the MEC suit the number of utility items decreases while the number of secondary weapon systems increases. As such, they can play a vital role in area control, squad support or neutralizing targets. Be advised that unlike vanilla in Long War you have to build the systems yourself and they do cost a lot of meld.

{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | MEC Secondary Weapons
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Flamethrower Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Flamethrower''' || 4-10 || 0% || 8-11 || - || -1 || 2 || Cone || {{No Icon}} || Incendiary area attack causing panic || MEC || 20 || MEC Warfare Systems || 85 || 0 || 0 || 5 || 7
|-align=center
|[[Image: Kinetic Strike Module Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Kinetic Strike Module''' || 9-15 || 0% || 15-21 || - || -1 || ∞ || Melee || {{No Icon}} || Close combat weapon || MEC || 22 || Floater Autopsy || 200 || 15 || 2 || 8 || 10
|-align=center
|[[Image: Grenade Launcher Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Grenade Launcher''' || 3-7 || 0% || - || - || -1 || 2 || 17 || {{No Icon}} || Indirect-fire Grenade Launcher || MEC || 35 || Gauss Weapons || 150 || 12 || 0 || 6 || 10
|-align=center
|[[Image: Proximity Mine Launcher Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Prox. Mine Launcher''' || 6-12 || 0% || - || - || -1 || 3 || 17 || {{No Icon}} || Fires Proximity Mines || MEC || 40 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 150 || 12 || 0 || 10 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Restorative Mist Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Restorative Mist''' || - || 0% || - || - || -1 || 1 || 17 || {{No Icon}} || Heals allies in an area || MEC || 28 || Thin Man Autopsy || 120 || 0 || 0 || 10 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Electro Pulse Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Electro Pulse''' || 3-9 || 0% || - || - || -1 || ∞ || 17 || {{No Icon}} || Stuns robots. 3 turn cooldown || MEC || 85 || EMP Weapons || 180 || 15 || 15 || 15 || 14
|-
|}

==='''SHIV Turrets'''===
Similar to the SAW but considerably more powerful, these heavy and expensive guns are the only weapons that the SHIV can use. While they suffer from the low base aim of all SHIV units, they can shred through enemies at close range, restrict enemy movement options when in overwatch mode thanks to certain equipment, and can deal massive damage to mechanized forces when equipped with HEAT ammo.
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|+
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!colspan="18" | SHIV Turrets
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Autocannon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Autocannon''' || 5-9 || 10% || 9-12 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || SHIV || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Superheavy Laser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Superheavy Laser''' || 6-10 || 10% || 10-14 || +7 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || SHIV || 20 || Advanced Beam Lasers || 80|| 5 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Sentry Gun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Sentry Gun''' || 7-11 || 10% || 11-16 || 0 || 0 || 4+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || SHIV || 35 || Gauss Weapons || 120|| 15 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Superheavy Pulser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Superheavy Pulser''' || 7-13 || 20% || 13-18 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || SHIV || 65 || Pulse Lasers || 300|| 35 || 25 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Superheavy Plasma Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Superheavy Plasma''' || 8-14 || 10% || 14-19 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || SHIV || 100 || Vehicular Plasma Weapons|| 500|| 45 || 40 ||3 || 21
|-
|}

== Steadying ==
Many weapons have an extra action available: Steady Weapon. This is a standard action, which will end the turn when used, which grants +20 aim for the next shot. The bonus is discarded if the soldier moves or switches weapon. This essentially allows a soldier to fire a carefully aimed shot over two turns. The use of perks such as '''Light 'Em Up''' and '''Double Tap''' only apply the bonus to the first shot taken. Note that sniper rifles can be steadied after moving, even if the operator cannot fire them. Steady Weapon's Aim bonus also applies to fired rockets, reducing rocket scatter.

== Explosives ==
In Long War explosives no longer do fixed damage to all targets in their radius. The further a target is from the center of the blast, the less damage it will take. This also applies to cover and cover in general is a little tougher than in vanilla.

== Rockets ==
Long War uses a revamped system for rocket accuracy. Aim is used when firing rockets to determine the chance of them landing on target, rather than the fixed 90% chance in vanilla. Rather than the vanilla behavior of a missed rocket veering wildly off course, Long War rockets never "miss" but will veer off course a random amount based on the soldier's Aim, with higher Aim giving less scatter. Lower range means less scatter, and the soldier achieving 120 Aim yields no scatter at any range. Rockets can also be fired after moving, but with increased scatter and reduced range. Rockets can not change height through scatter.

The hit chance shown while aiming is not a literal % hit chance, nor is it the maximum scatter distance. "Scatter" instead indicates the standard deviation on the X and Y axis. You can expect 68% of your rockets to hit within the standard deviation, 95% to hit within 2 times the standard deviation, and 99.7% to hit within 3 times the standard deviation. Rockets can exceed even this degree of deviation, but the chance is negligible.

Unblocked (no "Shot is Blocked" warning) rockets that veer off course will travel through most destructible terrain to their destination, destroying it in the process. If they encounter an allied or enemy pawn, they will detonate immediately.

[[Category: Long War]]

Weapons (Long War)

2014-11-08T02:04:07Z

Boris: /* Battle Rifle */ Removed "+1" from all ammo counts. Since SAWs are the only exception, I'm just adding note "+1 ammo (+2 for SAWs)" to Hi Cap Mags.

{{CheckOutdated (Long War)|b14}}
Long War makes several changes to weapons:
* There are five tiers of weapons: Conventional/Ballistic, Beam Laser, Gauss, Pulse Laser, Plasma.
* There are several additional types of primary and secondary weapon available in each tier.
* Many weapons can be Steadied as an action to improve aim for the next turn.
* Explosives no longer do fixed damage, and their damage reduces the further a target is from the center of the blast.
* Rocket launchers use a revamped accuracy system using the soldier's aim.
==Weapon tiers==
===Conventional/Ballistic===
These are the basic weapons you start with - and whilst they're okay to begin with, they're not going to be up to scratch in the long run. The sawed-off shotgun is unique to this tier. Ballistic weapons use the same models as EXALT ballistic weapons in vanilla.

===Beam Lasers===
Early beam lasers form the second tier of weapons, and all carry a small inherent accuracy bonus, which can make them good 'training' weapons for inexperienced troopers or as aiming aid for rocketeers in their aiming of explosives (much like you might otherwise issue them regular carbines). They also have a little more firepower than Ballistic weapons, but it still won't be enough in the long run. Although skipping laser weaponry in vanilla is a viable and at times easy-to-pull-off gambit, in long war expense of gauss weapons combined with the tighter economy makes this less appealing, and the aim bonus beam lasers confer makes them arguably better early game than gauss anyway. Beam Lasers use the same visuals as EXALT laser weapons in vanilla.

===Gauss===
Gauss weapons return to ballistic projectiles but elerium power sources make man-portable magnetic accelerators practical; combined with alloy-based projectiles, it's a recipe for pretty formidable personal weaponry. In general Gauss weapons have a larger clip size, which can make this tier of weapons preferable for soldiers that has ammo-intensive perks or abilities such as flush ,suppression, collateral damage, in the zone, close combat specialist, close encounters, light 'em up, and rapid fire. Uniquely, the sniper rifle of this tier--the Gauss long rifle--grants snipers the HEAT ammo perk, whom otherwise can't obtain said perk normally. This makes Gauss snipers a powerful counter to mechanical leaders/bosses whom can have over 50 health and a staggering amount of damage reduction; though in return, the Gauss long rifle has a rather inconvenient clip size of 1. Gauss weapons use the original XCOM weapon models.

Note: There are plans to give this tier of weaponry additional damage reduction penetration in '''future editions''' of the mod. (b14)

===Pulse Lasers===
Refining and enhancing laser technology allows for the development of pulse laser weaponry, another step up in terms of firepower. Pulse laser weapons have a bonus to their critical hit chance, which might make them more preferable to laser weapons in the hands of crit-focused assaults and snipers. They use the same visuals as XCOM-built laser weaponry.
===Plasma===
Plasma tier weapons are the most powerful in terms of raw damage, but also expensive and hard to obtain; building them requires captured alien weapons as production components... which means you'll have to stun and capture aliens for every weapon you want to build.
== Weapon types==
Long War adds many new types of primary and secondary weapon. Most of these weapon types have a corresponding weapon at each technology level. The primary weapon types are, in descending order of average damage: '''SHIV/MEC Primary Weapons''' > '''Light Machine Guns''' and '''Shotguns''' > '''Heavy Rifles''', '''Marksman/Sniper rifles''' and '''Squad Automatic Weapon''' > '''Assault Rifles''' > '''Carbines''' and '''Submachine Guns'''. In general, the more powerful a weapon is the more unwieldy it is as well, and that will reflect in aim and mobility penalties/bonuses. The MEC version of heavy machine guns have a unusually large deviation of +/-4. And finally Shotguns' damage is severely impeded by damage reduction.

=== '''Pistols''' ===
The default sidearm, very similar to vanilla pistols, except that they do not have unlimited ammo. Pistols have shorter effective range than assault rifles unless the soldier possesses the Gunslinger perk.
{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | Pistols
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:Pistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pistol''' || 1-3 || 0% || 3-4 || 0 || 0 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} ||Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 0 ||None ||colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Laser Pistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]] '''Laser Pistol''' || 2-4 || 0% || 4-5 || +7 || 0 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}}|| Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer|| 15|| Beam weapons || 30 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 10
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Pistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]] '''Plasma Pistol''' || 3-5 || 0% || 5-7 || 0 || 0 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}}|| Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 90|| Compact Plasma Weapons || 175 || 25 || 20 || 1 || 12
|-
|}

==='''Machine Pistols'''===
A more damaging sidearm, but at the cost of added weight and decreased aim when drawn. Machine Pistols also tend to have very limited ammo. Useful for a Gunslinger soldier to finish off targets.
{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | Machine Pistols
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:Machine pistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Machine Pistol''' || 2-4 || 0% || 4-5 || -10 || -1 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 0|| None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Heater Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heater''' || 3-5 || 0% || 5-7 || -3 || -1 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 15|| Beam weapons || 30 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Gauss Autopistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Autopistol''' || 3-5 || 0% || 5-7 || -10 || -1 || 3 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 28 || Gauss Weapons || 40 || 4 || 1 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Blaster Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Blaster''' || 4-6 || 10% || 6-9 || -10 || -1 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 60 || Pulse Lasers || 80 || 12 || 8 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Mauler Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Mauler''' || 4-8 || 0% || 8-11 || -10 || -2 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 90 || Compact Plasma Weapons || 230|| 30 || 20 || 1 || 12
|-
|}

==='''SMG'''===
SMGs confer +3 mobility bonus and have the lowest damage and crit chance of all the primary weapons. Unlike Carbines, SMGs do not grant bonus accuracy. They're very useful for classes that need to reposition quickly to bring explosives and other area weapons against enemies, making them a good choice for Rocketeers and Engineers. Scouts, who might use the added mobility usually require something that packs a punch, like a Shotgun or any Rifle.
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
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!colspan="18" | SMGs
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:SMG Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Submachine Gun''' || 2-4 || 0% || 4-5 || 0 || +3 || 2 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 0|| None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Laser Shatterray Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Shatterray''' || 3-5 || 0% || 5-7 || +7 || +3 || 2 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 15 || Beam Weapons || 35 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Gauss Stuttergun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Stuttergun''' || 4-6 || 0% || 6-9 || 0 || +3 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || All || 28 || Gauss Weapons || 75 || 6 || 1 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Pulse Stengun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Stengun''' || 4-8 || 10% || 8-11 || 0 || +3 || 2 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 62 || Pulse Lasers || 120 || 15 || 10 || 0 ||12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Stormgun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Stormgun''' || 5-9 || 0% || 9-12 || 0 || +3 || 2 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 90 || Plasma Weapons || 200 || 30 || 20 || 1 || 12
|-
|}

==='''Carbines'''===
Carbines are light versions of assault rifles. They have reduced damage and crit chance, but confer +1 mobility and an accuracy bonus. They are ideal for inexperienced troops and those that need to move quickly, but experienced troops should switch to other weapons quickly as tougher aliens begin to appear.
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
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!colspan="18" | Carbines
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:Assault Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Assault Carbine''' || 2-4 || 5% || 4-5 || +7 || +1 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Laser Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Carbine''' || 3-5 || 5% || 5-7 || +15 || +1 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 15 || Beam weapons || 40 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Gauss Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Carbine''' || 4-6 || 5% || 6-9 || +7 || +1 || 4 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || All || 30 || Gauss Weapons || 95 || 8 || 2 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Pulse Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Carbine''' || 4-8 || 15% || 8-11 || +7 || +1 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 63 || Pulse Lasers || 180 || 15 || 15 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Carbine''' || 5-9 || 5% || 9-12 || +7 || +1 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 90 || Plasma Weapons || 280 || 30 || 25 || 1 || 12
|-
|}

==='''Assault Rifles'''===
These are the baseline assault rifles, similar to their vanilla counterparts. They have a respectable balance of firepower and accuracy. 
The Arc Rifle is a special Rifle that grants Disabling Shot with the regular 2-turn cooldown, although it does not confer the snap shot perk. It has low damage and ammo capacity. Useful early on for raiding small UFO's with capable soldiers and plenty of arc thrower uses.

{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | Assault Rifles
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:Assault Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Assault Rifle''' || 3-5 || 10% || 5-7 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Laser Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Rifle''' || 4-6 || 10% || 6-9 || +7 || 0 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 15 || Beam weapons || 50 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Gauss Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Rifle''' || 4-8 || 10% || 8-11 || 0 || 0 || 4 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || All || 30 || Gauss Weapons || 100 || 12 || 2 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image:Pulse Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Rifle''' || 5-9 || 20% || 9-12 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 60 || Pulse Lasers || 200 || 20 || 15 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Rifle''' || 6-10 || 10% || 10-14 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer|| 95 || Advanced Plasma Weapons || 380 || 40 || 30 || 2 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Arc Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Arc Rifle''' || 1-3 || 0% || 3-4 || 0 || 0 || 2 || 200 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Grants Disabling Shot, Cannot fire after any costly action || All except Gunners and Rocketeers || 25 || Xenoneurology New Combat Systems || 60 || 2 || 2 || 0 || 10
|-
|}

==='''Battle Rifle'''===
Battle Rifles are heavier versions of assault rifles. They do increased damage and have one additional burst relative to assault rifles, but carry a mobility penalty and a hefty aim penalty. They are best used by experienced soldiers who can aim well enough to offset the penalty (Infantry in particular, thanks to their high aim progression and ability to fire multiple times per turn cycle).
{| class="wikitable"
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! colspan="18" | Battle Rifles
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:Battle Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Battle Rifle''' || 4-6 || 10% || 6-9 || -15 || -1 || 4 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Heavy Laser Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heavy Laser Rifle''' || 4-8|| 15% || 8-11 || -8 || -1 || 4 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 20 || Advanced Beam Lasers || 70 || 4 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Heavy Gauss Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heavy Gauss Rifle''' || 5-9 || 15% || 9-12 || -15 || -1 || 5 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 40 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 140 || 15 || 5 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image:Heavy Pulse Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heavy Pulse Rifle''' || 6-10 || 25% || 10-14 || -15 || -1 || 4 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 67 || Advanced Pulse Lasers || 220 || 25 || 20 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Heavy Plasma Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heavy Plasma Rifle''' || 7-11 || 15% || 11-16 || -15 || -1 || 4 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 105 || Heavy Plasma Weapons || 400 || 40 || 28 || 2 || 18
|-
|}

==='''Shotgun'''===
Long War shotgun-type weapons are similar to their vanilla counterparts. High damage, high crit chance, short range. Shotguns are extremely accurate up close, but suffer from very poor accuracy over longer ranges (even with Cinematic Mode enabled). As such, they work best with highly mobile classes or those that only ever expect to engage enemies up close, like Assault and Scout soldiers. 

The sawed-off shotgun, a point-blank range, high damage sidearm with -1 mobility. It has only one shot, and this cannot be increased by ammo capacity upgrades.
{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | Shotguns
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Shotgun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Shotgun''' || 4-8 || 20% || 8-11 || 0 || 0 || 5+1 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage Reduction]] penalty || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Sawed-off Shotgun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Sawed-Off Shotgun''' || 4-8 || 5% || 8-11 || -15 || -1 || 1 || 3 || {{No Icon}} || Sidearm. Confers -1 mobility. Can only be used at point blank range. || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 1 || None || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 1
|-align=center
|[[Image: Scatter Laser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Scatter Laser''' || 5-9 || 20% || 9-12 || +7 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage reduction]] penalty
| Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 18 || Advanced Beam Weapons || 80 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Alloy Cannon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Alloy Cannon''' || 6-10 || 20% || 10-14 || 0 || 0 || 4+1 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage reduction]] penalty .33 DR reduction
| Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 32 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 150 || 18 || 5 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Scatter Blaster Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Scatter Blaster''' || 7-11 || 30% || 11-16 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage reduction]] penalty
| Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 62 || Advanced Pulse Weapons || 250 || 20 || 20 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Reflex Cannon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Reflex Cannon''' || 7-13 || 20% || 13-18 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage reduction]] penalty
| Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 102 || Sectopod Autopsy || 500 || 40 || 30 || 2 || 18
|-
|}

==='''Sniper Rifle'''===
Sniper Rifles are mostly identical to their vanilla counterparts and can only be used by Snipers. They have very long range (double the range of vanilla, making it functionally infinite), but can only be fired if the user has not taken a costly, including reloading, unless they have Snap Shot training. Long War sniper rifles have higher penalties when used at short range than vanilla sniper rifles. Sniper rifles can only overwatch fire up to visual range, so consider steadying the weapon instead to end a turn without targets (especially if you don't have snapshot training).
{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | Sniper Rifles
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Sniper Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Sniper Rifle''' || 4-6 || 25% || 6-9 || 0 || -1 || 5+1 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty || Sniper || 0 ||None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Laser Sniper Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Sniper Rifle''' || 4-8 || 25% || 8-11 || +7 || -1 || 3+1 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty || Sniper || 18 || Advanced Beam Weapons || 50 || 4 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gauss Long Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Long Rifle''' || 5-9 || 10% || 9-12 || 0 || -2 || 1+1 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty Grants HEAT Ammo perk. .33 DR reduction || Sniper || 35 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 250 || 15 || 5 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Pulse Sniper Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Sniper Rifle''' || 6-10 || 35% || 10-14 || 0 || -1 || 3+1 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty || Sniper || 65 || Advanced Pulse Lasers || 250 || 25|| 20 || 0|| 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Plasma Sniper Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Sniper Rifle''' || 7-11 || 25% || 11-16 || 0 || -1 || 3+1 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty || Sniper || 105 || Precision Plasma Weapons || 500 || 45 || 30 || 2 || 18
|-
|}

==='''Marksman Rifle'''===
Marksman rifles are smaller versions of sniper rifles that can also only be used by the Sniper and Scout classes. They have longer range than most weapons, but considerably shorter than sniper rifles nonetheless can be fired after moving. Like sniper rifles, marksman rifles have hefty accuracy penalties when used at short range. Marksman rifles have the same base damage as sniper rifles, but considerably lower crit chance. Marksman rifles can fire reaction shots up to their maximum range, and with Precision Shot they have unlimited range. 
Marksman Rifles are better suited to close-quarters maps where mobility is essential. 
{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | Marksman Rifles
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Marksman Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Marksman Rifle''' || 4-6 || 15% || 6-9 || 0 || 0 || 5+1 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty || Scout, Sniper || 0 ||None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Laser Strike Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Strike Rifle''' || 4-8 || 15% || 8-11 || +7 || 0 || 3+1 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty || Scout, Sniper || 18 || Advanced Beam Lasers || 50 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image: Alloy Strike Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Alloy Strike Rifle''' || 5-9 || 15% || 9-12 || 0 || 0 || 4+1 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty .33 DR reduction || Scout, Sniper || 35 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 120 || 15 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Blaster Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Blaster Rifle''' || 6-10 || 25% || 10-14 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty || Scout, Sniper || 67 || Advanced Pulse Lasers || 220 || 25 || 20 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Reflex Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Reflex Rifle''' || 7-11 || 15% || 11-16 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty || Scout, Sniper || 102 || Precision Plasma Weapons || 450 || 40 || 30 || 2 || 18
|-
|}

==='''Squad Automatic Weapon'''===
SAW-type weapons are the closest equivalent to vanilla LMGs in Long War. They can only be used by the Gunner class. SAWs have larger magazines and higher damage than assault rifles but confer a mobility penalty and can't be steadied. They allow faster movement than LMGs, but have less ammo and deal less damage. Suppressing a target with a SAW grants the Opportunist perk for any reaction fire triggered by enemy movement
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
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!colspan="18" | Squad Automatic Weapons
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: SAW Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''SAW''' || 4-6 || 0% || 6-9 || 0 || -1 || 6+2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Gunner || 0 ||None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Autolaser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Autolaser''' || 4-8 || 0% || 8-11 || +7 || -1 || 6+2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Gunner || 65 || Beam Weapons || 60 || 4 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gauss Autorifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Autorifle''' || 5-9 || 0% || 9-12 || 0 || -1 || 7+2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || Gunner || 32 || Gauss Weapons || 110 || 15 || 2 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Pulse Autoblaster Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Autoblaster''' || 6-10 || 10% || 10-14 || 0 || -1 || 6+2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Gunner || 65 || Pulse Lasers || 230 || 30 || 20 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Plasma Novagun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Novagun''' || 7-11 || 0% || 11-16 || 0 || -1 || 6+2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Gunner || 98 || Advanced Plasma Weapons || 500 || 45 || 30 || 2 || 20
|-
|}

==='''Light Machine Gun'''===
LMG-type weapons are larger versions of SAWs and are also only usable by the Gunner class. LMGs carry a mobility penalty and can only fire if the user has not moved, but in return they have even larger magazines and even higher damage than SAWs. LMGs also have a slightly longer range than most weapons and confer the Squadsight perk on the user so they can make use of the extra range. When an LMG is used to suppress, the reaction shot taken if the target moves suffers no aim penalty and can crit. LMGs can only overwatch fire up to visual range. 
LMGs are ideal for heavy defensive situations where the Gunner can situate themselves securely and guard a given area using normal and reaction fire.
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
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!colspan="18" | Light Machine Guns
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: LMG Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''LMG''' || 4-8 || 5% || 8-11 || 0 || -2 || 8+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight || Gunner || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gatling Laser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gatling Laser''' || 5-9 || 5% || 9-12 || +7 || -2 || 8+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight || Gunner || 18 || Beam weapons || 60 || 5 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gauss Machine Gun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Machine Gun''' || 6-10 || 5% || 10-14 || 0 || -2 || 9+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight .33 DR reduction || Gunner || 40 || Gauss Weapons || 140 || 16 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gatling Pulser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gatling Pulser''' || 7-11 || 15% || 11-16 || 0 || -2 || 8+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight || Gunner || 64 || Pulse Lasers || 215 || 35 || 22 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Plasma Dragon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Dragon''' || 7-13 || 5% || 13-18 || 0 || -2 || 8+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight || Gunner || 105 || Heavy Plasma Weapons || 500 || 48 || 32 || 2 || 20
|-
|}

==='''Rocket Launchers'''===
Sometimes you just have to make a good first-time impression. Sometimes you just happen to not have the right key for a door. Sometimes you just want to give those aliens a running start on their way back - do not fret, Xcom have some portable rocket launchers for you! 

Rockets are fairly simple to use - pick youр ability, aim and fire. There is always some guaranteed scatter which is limited by the soldier's Aim and Abilities. While mostly used by Rocketeers, Engineers also have the ability at later stages of the game to carry a rocket launcher. Carrying one forfeits your sidearm. For more information regarding rockets read bellow.
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
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!colspan="18" | Rocket Launchers
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Rocket Launcher Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Rocket Launcher''' || 4-10 || 0% || - || 0 || -1 || 1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Rocketeer|| 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Recoilless Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Recoilless Rifle''' || 6-12 || 0% || - || 0 || -1 || 1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || .33 DR reduction|| Rocketeer|| 35 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 100 || 25 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Blaster Launcher Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Blaster Launcher''' || 8-16 || 0% || - || 0 || -2 || 1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Rocketeer|| 110 || Fusion Weapons || 600 || 60 || 65 || 2 || 20
|-
|}

==='''MEC Primary Weapons'''===
MEC weapons (unsurprisingly) can only be used by MECs. They are high damage and have extended range equal to marksman rifles and LMGs, but do not confer the squadsight perk, so only MEC classes that have squadsight can use the extra range. Even MECs with squadsight can only overwatch fire up to visual range.
{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | MEC Primary Weapons
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Minigun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Minigun''' || 5-9 || 10% || 9-12 || 0 || 0 || 2+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || - || MEC || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Laser Lance Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Lance''' || 7-11 || 10% || 11-16 || +7 || 0 || 3+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || - || MEC || 20 || Advanced Beam Lasers || 80 || 5 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Railgun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Railgun''' || 7-13 || 10% || 13-18 || 0 || 0 || 4+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || .33 DR reduction, no suppression || MEC || 35 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 120 || 25 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Pulse Lance Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Lance''' || 7-13 || 20% || 13-18 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || - || MEC || 65 || Advanced Pulse Lasers || 240 || 35 || 24 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Particle Cannon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Particle Cannon''' || 8-14 || 10% || 14-19 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || No suppression || MEC || 105 || Heavy Plasma Weapons || 450 || 45 || 40 || 10 || 14
|-
|}

==='''MEC Seconday Weapons'''===

With each upgrade of the MEC suit the number of utility items decreases while the number of secondary weapon systems increases. As such, they can play a vital role in area control, squad support or neutralizing targets. Be advised that unlike vanilla in Long War you have to build the systems yourself and they do cost a lot of meld.

{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | MEC Secondary Weapons
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Flamethrower Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Flamethrower''' || 4-10 || 0% || 8-11 || - || -1 || 2 || Cone || {{No Icon}} || Incendiary area attack causing panic || MEC || 20 || MEC Warfare Systems || 85 || 0 || 0 || 5 || 7
|-align=center
|[[Image: Kinetic Strike Module Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Kinetic Strike Module''' || 9-15 || 0% || 15-21 || - || -1 || ∞ || Melee || {{No Icon}} || Close combat weapon || MEC || 22 || Floater Autopsy || 200 || 15 || 2 || 8 || 10
|-align=center
|[[Image: Grenade Launcher Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Grenade Launcher''' || 3-7 || 0% || - || - || -1 || 2 || 17 || {{No Icon}} || Indirect-fire Grenade Launcher || MEC || 35 || Gauss Weapons || 150 || 12 || 0 || 6 || 10
|-align=center
|[[Image: Proximity Mine Launcher Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Prox. Mine Launcher''' || 6-12 || 0% || - || - || -1 || 3 || 17 || {{No Icon}} || Fires Proximity Mines || MEC || 40 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 150 || 12 || 0 || 10 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Restorative Mist Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Restorative Mist''' || - || 0% || - || - || -1 || 1 || 17 || {{No Icon}} || Heals allies in an area || MEC || 28 || Thin Man Autopsy || 120 || 0 || 0 || 10 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Electro Pulse Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Electro Pulse''' || 3-9 || 0% || - || - || -1 || ∞ || 17 || {{No Icon}} || Stuns robots. 3 turn cooldown || MEC || 85 || EMP Weapons || 180 || 15 || 15 || 15 || 14
|-
|}

==='''SHIV Turrets'''===
Similar to the SAW but considerably more powerful, these heavy and expensive guns are the only weapons that the SHIV can use. While they suffer from the low base aim of all SHIV units, they can shred through enemies at close range, restrict enemy movement options when in overwatch mode thanks to certain equipment, and can deal massive damage to mechanized forces when equipped with HEAT ammo.
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
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!colspan="18" | SHIV Turrets
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Autocannon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Autocannon''' || 5-9 || 10% || 9-12 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || SHIV || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Superheavy Laser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Superheavy Laser''' || 6-10 || 10% || 10-14 || +7 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || SHIV || 20 || Advanced Beam Lasers || 80|| 5 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Sentry Gun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Sentry Gun''' || 7-11 || 10% || 11-16 || 0 || 0 || 4+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || SHIV || 35 || Gauss Weapons || 120|| 15 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Superheavy Pulser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Superheavy Pulser''' || 7-13 || 20% || 13-18 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || SHIV || 65 || Pulse Lasers || 300|| 35 || 25 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Superheavy Plasma Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Superheavy Plasma''' || 8-14 || 10% || 14-19 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || SHIV || 100 || Vehicular Plasma Weapons|| 500|| 45 || 40 ||3 || 21
|-
|}

== Steadying ==
Many weapons have an extra action available: Steady Weapon. This is a standard action, which will end the turn when used, which grants +20 aim for the next shot. The bonus is discarded if the soldier moves or switches weapon. This essentially allows a soldier to fire a carefully aimed shot over two turns. The use of perks such as '''Light 'Em Up''' and '''Double Tap''' only apply the bonus to the first shot taken. Note that sniper rifles can be steadied after moving, even if the operator cannot fire them. Steady Weapon's Aim bonus also applies to fired rockets, reducing rocket scatter.

== Explosives ==
In Long War explosives no longer do fixed damage to all targets in their radius. The further a target is from the center of the blast, the less damage it will take. This also applies to cover and cover in general is a little tougher than in vanilla.

== Rockets ==
Long War uses a revamped system for rocket accuracy. Aim is used when firing rockets to determine the chance of them landing on target, rather than the fixed 90% chance in vanilla. Rather than the vanilla behavior of a missed rocket veering wildly off course, Long War rockets never "miss" but will veer off course a random amount based on the soldier's Aim, with higher Aim giving less scatter. Lower range means less scatter, and the soldier achieving 120 Aim yields no scatter at any range. Rockets can also be fired after moving, but with increased scatter and reduced range. Rockets can not change height through scatter.

The hit chance shown while aiming is not a literal % hit chance, nor is it the maximum scatter distance. "Scatter" instead indicates the standard deviation on the X and Y axis. You can expect 68% of your rockets to hit within the standard deviation, 95% to hit within 2 times the standard deviation, and 99.7% to hit within 3 times the standard deviation. Rockets can exceed even this degree of deviation, but the chance is negligible.

Unblocked (no "Shot is Blocked" warning) rockets that veer off course will travel through most destructible terrain to their destination, destroying it in the process. If they encounter an allied or enemy pawn, they will detonate immediately.

[[Category: Long War]]

Weapons (Long War)

2014-11-08T02:03:16Z

Boris: /* Assault Rifles */ Removed "+1" from all ammo counts. Since SAWs are the only exception, I'm just adding note "+1 ammo (+2 for SAWs)" to Hi Cap Mags.

{{CheckOutdated (Long War)|b14}}
Long War makes several changes to weapons:
* There are five tiers of weapons: Conventional/Ballistic, Beam Laser, Gauss, Pulse Laser, Plasma.
* There are several additional types of primary and secondary weapon available in each tier.
* Many weapons can be Steadied as an action to improve aim for the next turn.
* Explosives no longer do fixed damage, and their damage reduces the further a target is from the center of the blast.
* Rocket launchers use a revamped accuracy system using the soldier's aim.
==Weapon tiers==
===Conventional/Ballistic===
These are the basic weapons you start with - and whilst they're okay to begin with, they're not going to be up to scratch in the long run. The sawed-off shotgun is unique to this tier. Ballistic weapons use the same models as EXALT ballistic weapons in vanilla.

===Beam Lasers===
Early beam lasers form the second tier of weapons, and all carry a small inherent accuracy bonus, which can make them good 'training' weapons for inexperienced troopers or as aiming aid for rocketeers in their aiming of explosives (much like you might otherwise issue them regular carbines). They also have a little more firepower than Ballistic weapons, but it still won't be enough in the long run. Although skipping laser weaponry in vanilla is a viable and at times easy-to-pull-off gambit, in long war expense of gauss weapons combined with the tighter economy makes this less appealing, and the aim bonus beam lasers confer makes them arguably better early game than gauss anyway. Beam Lasers use the same visuals as EXALT laser weapons in vanilla.

===Gauss===
Gauss weapons return to ballistic projectiles but elerium power sources make man-portable magnetic accelerators practical; combined with alloy-based projectiles, it's a recipe for pretty formidable personal weaponry. In general Gauss weapons have a larger clip size, which can make this tier of weapons preferable for soldiers that has ammo-intensive perks or abilities such as flush ,suppression, collateral damage, in the zone, close combat specialist, close encounters, light 'em up, and rapid fire. Uniquely, the sniper rifle of this tier--the Gauss long rifle--grants snipers the HEAT ammo perk, whom otherwise can't obtain said perk normally. This makes Gauss snipers a powerful counter to mechanical leaders/bosses whom can have over 50 health and a staggering amount of damage reduction; though in return, the Gauss long rifle has a rather inconvenient clip size of 1. Gauss weapons use the original XCOM weapon models.

Note: There are plans to give this tier of weaponry additional damage reduction penetration in '''future editions''' of the mod. (b14)

===Pulse Lasers===
Refining and enhancing laser technology allows for the development of pulse laser weaponry, another step up in terms of firepower. Pulse laser weapons have a bonus to their critical hit chance, which might make them more preferable to laser weapons in the hands of crit-focused assaults and snipers. They use the same visuals as XCOM-built laser weaponry.
===Plasma===
Plasma tier weapons are the most powerful in terms of raw damage, but also expensive and hard to obtain; building them requires captured alien weapons as production components... which means you'll have to stun and capture aliens for every weapon you want to build.
== Weapon types==
Long War adds many new types of primary and secondary weapon. Most of these weapon types have a corresponding weapon at each technology level. The primary weapon types are, in descending order of average damage: '''SHIV/MEC Primary Weapons''' > '''Light Machine Guns''' and '''Shotguns''' > '''Heavy Rifles''', '''Marksman/Sniper rifles''' and '''Squad Automatic Weapon''' > '''Assault Rifles''' > '''Carbines''' and '''Submachine Guns'''. In general, the more powerful a weapon is the more unwieldy it is as well, and that will reflect in aim and mobility penalties/bonuses. The MEC version of heavy machine guns have a unusually large deviation of +/-4. And finally Shotguns' damage is severely impeded by damage reduction.

=== '''Pistols''' ===
The default sidearm, very similar to vanilla pistols, except that they do not have unlimited ammo. Pistols have shorter effective range than assault rifles unless the soldier possesses the Gunslinger perk.
{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | Pistols
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:Pistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pistol''' || 1-3 || 0% || 3-4 || 0 || 0 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} ||Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 0 ||None ||colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Laser Pistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]] '''Laser Pistol''' || 2-4 || 0% || 4-5 || +7 || 0 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}}|| Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer|| 15|| Beam weapons || 30 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 10
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Pistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]] '''Plasma Pistol''' || 3-5 || 0% || 5-7 || 0 || 0 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}}|| Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 90|| Compact Plasma Weapons || 175 || 25 || 20 || 1 || 12
|-
|}

==='''Machine Pistols'''===
A more damaging sidearm, but at the cost of added weight and decreased aim when drawn. Machine Pistols also tend to have very limited ammo. Useful for a Gunslinger soldier to finish off targets.
{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | Machine Pistols
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:Machine pistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Machine Pistol''' || 2-4 || 0% || 4-5 || -10 || -1 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 0|| None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Heater Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heater''' || 3-5 || 0% || 5-7 || -3 || -1 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 15|| Beam weapons || 30 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Gauss Autopistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Autopistol''' || 3-5 || 0% || 5-7 || -10 || -1 || 3 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 28 || Gauss Weapons || 40 || 4 || 1 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Blaster Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Blaster''' || 4-6 || 10% || 6-9 || -10 || -1 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 60 || Pulse Lasers || 80 || 12 || 8 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Mauler Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Mauler''' || 4-8 || 0% || 8-11 || -10 || -2 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 90 || Compact Plasma Weapons || 230|| 30 || 20 || 1 || 12
|-
|}

==='''SMG'''===
SMGs confer +3 mobility bonus and have the lowest damage and crit chance of all the primary weapons. Unlike Carbines, SMGs do not grant bonus accuracy. They're very useful for classes that need to reposition quickly to bring explosives and other area weapons against enemies, making them a good choice for Rocketeers and Engineers. Scouts, who might use the added mobility usually require something that packs a punch, like a Shotgun or any Rifle.
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
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!colspan="18" | SMGs
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:SMG Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Submachine Gun''' || 2-4 || 0% || 4-5 || 0 || +3 || 2 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 0|| None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Laser Shatterray Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Shatterray''' || 3-5 || 0% || 5-7 || +7 || +3 || 2 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 15 || Beam Weapons || 35 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Gauss Stuttergun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Stuttergun''' || 4-6 || 0% || 6-9 || 0 || +3 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || All || 28 || Gauss Weapons || 75 || 6 || 1 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Pulse Stengun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Stengun''' || 4-8 || 10% || 8-11 || 0 || +3 || 2 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 62 || Pulse Lasers || 120 || 15 || 10 || 0 ||12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Stormgun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Stormgun''' || 5-9 || 0% || 9-12 || 0 || +3 || 2 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 90 || Plasma Weapons || 200 || 30 || 20 || 1 || 12
|-
|}

==='''Carbines'''===
Carbines are light versions of assault rifles. They have reduced damage and crit chance, but confer +1 mobility and an accuracy bonus. They are ideal for inexperienced troops and those that need to move quickly, but experienced troops should switch to other weapons quickly as tougher aliens begin to appear.
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
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!colspan="18" | Carbines
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:Assault Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Assault Carbine''' || 2-4 || 5% || 4-5 || +7 || +1 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Laser Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Carbine''' || 3-5 || 5% || 5-7 || +15 || +1 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 15 || Beam weapons || 40 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Gauss Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Carbine''' || 4-6 || 5% || 6-9 || +7 || +1 || 4 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || All || 30 || Gauss Weapons || 95 || 8 || 2 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Pulse Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Carbine''' || 4-8 || 15% || 8-11 || +7 || +1 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 63 || Pulse Lasers || 180 || 15 || 15 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Carbine''' || 5-9 || 5% || 9-12 || +7 || +1 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 90 || Plasma Weapons || 280 || 30 || 25 || 1 || 12
|-
|}

==='''Assault Rifles'''===
These are the baseline assault rifles, similar to their vanilla counterparts. They have a respectable balance of firepower and accuracy. 
The Arc Rifle is a special Rifle that grants Disabling Shot with the regular 2-turn cooldown, although it does not confer the snap shot perk. It has low damage and ammo capacity. Useful early on for raiding small UFO's with capable soldiers and plenty of arc thrower uses.

{| class="wikitable"
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|-
!colspan="18" | Assault Rifles
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:Assault Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Assault Rifle''' || 3-5 || 10% || 5-7 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Laser Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Rifle''' || 4-6 || 10% || 6-9 || +7 || 0 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 15 || Beam weapons || 50 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Gauss Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Rifle''' || 4-8 || 10% || 8-11 || 0 || 0 || 4 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || All || 30 || Gauss Weapons || 100 || 12 || 2 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image:Pulse Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Rifle''' || 5-9 || 20% || 9-12 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 60 || Pulse Lasers || 200 || 20 || 15 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Rifle''' || 6-10 || 10% || 10-14 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer|| 95 || Advanced Plasma Weapons || 380 || 40 || 30 || 2 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Arc Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Arc Rifle''' || 1-3 || 0% || 3-4 || 0 || 0 || 2 || 200 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Grants Disabling Shot, Cannot fire after any costly action || All except Gunners and Rocketeers || 25 || Xenoneurology New Combat Systems || 60 || 2 || 2 || 0 || 10
|-
|}

==='''Battle Rifle'''===
Battle Rifles are heavier versions of assault rifles. They do increased damage and have one additional burst relative to assault rifles, but carry a mobility penalty and a hefty aim penalty. They are best used by experienced soldiers who can aim well enough to offset the penalty (Infantry in particular, thanks to their high aim progression and ability to fire multiple times per turn cycle).
{| class="wikitable"
|+
|-
! colspan="18" | Battle Rifles
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:Battle Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Battle Rifle''' || 4-6 || 10% || 6-9 || -15 || -1 || 4+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Heavy Laser Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heavy Laser Rifle''' || 4-8|| 15% || 8-11 || -8 || -1 || 4+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 20 || Advanced Beam Lasers || 70 || 4 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Heavy Gauss Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heavy Gauss Rifle''' || 5-9 || 15% || 9-12 || -15 || -1 || 5+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 40 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 140 || 15 || 5 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image:Heavy Pulse Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heavy Pulse Rifle''' || 6-10 || 25% || 10-14 || -15 || -1 || 4+1|| 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 67 || Advanced Pulse Lasers || 220 || 25 || 20 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Heavy Plasma Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heavy Plasma Rifle''' || 7-11 || 15% || 11-16 || -15 || -1 || 4+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 105 || Heavy Plasma Weapons || 400 || 40 || 28 || 2 || 18
|-
|}

==='''Shotgun'''===
Long War shotgun-type weapons are similar to their vanilla counterparts. High damage, high crit chance, short range. Shotguns are extremely accurate up close, but suffer from very poor accuracy over longer ranges (even with Cinematic Mode enabled). As such, they work best with highly mobile classes or those that only ever expect to engage enemies up close, like Assault and Scout soldiers. 

The sawed-off shotgun, a point-blank range, high damage sidearm with -1 mobility. It has only one shot, and this cannot be increased by ammo capacity upgrades.
{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | Shotguns
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Shotgun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Shotgun''' || 4-8 || 20% || 8-11 || 0 || 0 || 5+1 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage Reduction]] penalty || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Sawed-off Shotgun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Sawed-Off Shotgun''' || 4-8 || 5% || 8-11 || -15 || -1 || 1 || 3 || {{No Icon}} || Sidearm. Confers -1 mobility. Can only be used at point blank range. || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 1 || None || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 1
|-align=center
|[[Image: Scatter Laser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Scatter Laser''' || 5-9 || 20% || 9-12 || +7 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage reduction]] penalty
| Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 18 || Advanced Beam Weapons || 80 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Alloy Cannon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Alloy Cannon''' || 6-10 || 20% || 10-14 || 0 || 0 || 4+1 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage reduction]] penalty .33 DR reduction
| Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 32 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 150 || 18 || 5 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Scatter Blaster Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Scatter Blaster''' || 7-11 || 30% || 11-16 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage reduction]] penalty
| Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 62 || Advanced Pulse Weapons || 250 || 20 || 20 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Reflex Cannon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Reflex Cannon''' || 7-13 || 20% || 13-18 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage reduction]] penalty
| Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 102 || Sectopod Autopsy || 500 || 40 || 30 || 2 || 18
|-
|}

==='''Sniper Rifle'''===
Sniper Rifles are mostly identical to their vanilla counterparts and can only be used by Snipers. They have very long range (double the range of vanilla, making it functionally infinite), but can only be fired if the user has not taken a costly, including reloading, unless they have Snap Shot training. Long War sniper rifles have higher penalties when used at short range than vanilla sniper rifles. Sniper rifles can only overwatch fire up to visual range, so consider steadying the weapon instead to end a turn without targets (especially if you don't have snapshot training).
{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | Sniper Rifles
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Sniper Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Sniper Rifle''' || 4-6 || 25% || 6-9 || 0 || -1 || 5+1 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty || Sniper || 0 ||None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Laser Sniper Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Sniper Rifle''' || 4-8 || 25% || 8-11 || +7 || -1 || 3+1 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty || Sniper || 18 || Advanced Beam Weapons || 50 || 4 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gauss Long Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Long Rifle''' || 5-9 || 10% || 9-12 || 0 || -2 || 1+1 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty Grants HEAT Ammo perk. .33 DR reduction || Sniper || 35 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 250 || 15 || 5 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Pulse Sniper Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Sniper Rifle''' || 6-10 || 35% || 10-14 || 0 || -1 || 3+1 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty || Sniper || 65 || Advanced Pulse Lasers || 250 || 25|| 20 || 0|| 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Plasma Sniper Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Sniper Rifle''' || 7-11 || 25% || 11-16 || 0 || -1 || 3+1 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty || Sniper || 105 || Precision Plasma Weapons || 500 || 45 || 30 || 2 || 18
|-
|}

==='''Marksman Rifle'''===
Marksman rifles are smaller versions of sniper rifles that can also only be used by the Sniper and Scout classes. They have longer range than most weapons, but considerably shorter than sniper rifles nonetheless can be fired after moving. Like sniper rifles, marksman rifles have hefty accuracy penalties when used at short range. Marksman rifles have the same base damage as sniper rifles, but considerably lower crit chance. Marksman rifles can fire reaction shots up to their maximum range, and with Precision Shot they have unlimited range. 
Marksman Rifles are better suited to close-quarters maps where mobility is essential. 
{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | Marksman Rifles
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Marksman Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Marksman Rifle''' || 4-6 || 15% || 6-9 || 0 || 0 || 5+1 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty || Scout, Sniper || 0 ||None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Laser Strike Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Strike Rifle''' || 4-8 || 15% || 8-11 || +7 || 0 || 3+1 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty || Scout, Sniper || 18 || Advanced Beam Lasers || 50 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image: Alloy Strike Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Alloy Strike Rifle''' || 5-9 || 15% || 9-12 || 0 || 0 || 4+1 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty .33 DR reduction || Scout, Sniper || 35 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 120 || 15 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Blaster Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Blaster Rifle''' || 6-10 || 25% || 10-14 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty || Scout, Sniper || 67 || Advanced Pulse Lasers || 220 || 25 || 20 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Reflex Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Reflex Rifle''' || 7-11 || 15% || 11-16 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty || Scout, Sniper || 102 || Precision Plasma Weapons || 450 || 40 || 30 || 2 || 18
|-
|}

==='''Squad Automatic Weapon'''===
SAW-type weapons are the closest equivalent to vanilla LMGs in Long War. They can only be used by the Gunner class. SAWs have larger magazines and higher damage than assault rifles but confer a mobility penalty and can't be steadied. They allow faster movement than LMGs, but have less ammo and deal less damage. Suppressing a target with a SAW grants the Opportunist perk for any reaction fire triggered by enemy movement
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
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!colspan="18" | Squad Automatic Weapons
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: SAW Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''SAW''' || 4-6 || 0% || 6-9 || 0 || -1 || 6+2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Gunner || 0 ||None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Autolaser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Autolaser''' || 4-8 || 0% || 8-11 || +7 || -1 || 6+2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Gunner || 65 || Beam Weapons || 60 || 4 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gauss Autorifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Autorifle''' || 5-9 || 0% || 9-12 || 0 || -1 || 7+2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || Gunner || 32 || Gauss Weapons || 110 || 15 || 2 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Pulse Autoblaster Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Autoblaster''' || 6-10 || 10% || 10-14 || 0 || -1 || 6+2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Gunner || 65 || Pulse Lasers || 230 || 30 || 20 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Plasma Novagun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Novagun''' || 7-11 || 0% || 11-16 || 0 || -1 || 6+2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Gunner || 98 || Advanced Plasma Weapons || 500 || 45 || 30 || 2 || 20
|-
|}

==='''Light Machine Gun'''===
LMG-type weapons are larger versions of SAWs and are also only usable by the Gunner class. LMGs carry a mobility penalty and can only fire if the user has not moved, but in return they have even larger magazines and even higher damage than SAWs. LMGs also have a slightly longer range than most weapons and confer the Squadsight perk on the user so they can make use of the extra range. When an LMG is used to suppress, the reaction shot taken if the target moves suffers no aim penalty and can crit. LMGs can only overwatch fire up to visual range. 
LMGs are ideal for heavy defensive situations where the Gunner can situate themselves securely and guard a given area using normal and reaction fire.
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!colspan="18" | Light Machine Guns
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: LMG Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''LMG''' || 4-8 || 5% || 8-11 || 0 || -2 || 8+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight || Gunner || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gatling Laser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gatling Laser''' || 5-9 || 5% || 9-12 || +7 || -2 || 8+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight || Gunner || 18 || Beam weapons || 60 || 5 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gauss Machine Gun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Machine Gun''' || 6-10 || 5% || 10-14 || 0 || -2 || 9+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight .33 DR reduction || Gunner || 40 || Gauss Weapons || 140 || 16 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gatling Pulser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gatling Pulser''' || 7-11 || 15% || 11-16 || 0 || -2 || 8+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight || Gunner || 64 || Pulse Lasers || 215 || 35 || 22 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Plasma Dragon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Dragon''' || 7-13 || 5% || 13-18 || 0 || -2 || 8+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight || Gunner || 105 || Heavy Plasma Weapons || 500 || 48 || 32 || 2 || 20
|-
|}

==='''Rocket Launchers'''===
Sometimes you just have to make a good first-time impression. Sometimes you just happen to not have the right key for a door. Sometimes you just want to give those aliens a running start on their way back - do not fret, Xcom have some portable rocket launchers for you! 

Rockets are fairly simple to use - pick youр ability, aim and fire. There is always some guaranteed scatter which is limited by the soldier's Aim and Abilities. While mostly used by Rocketeers, Engineers also have the ability at later stages of the game to carry a rocket launcher. Carrying one forfeits your sidearm. For more information regarding rockets read bellow.
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
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!colspan="18" | Rocket Launchers
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Rocket Launcher Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Rocket Launcher''' || 4-10 || 0% || - || 0 || -1 || 1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Rocketeer|| 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Recoilless Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Recoilless Rifle''' || 6-12 || 0% || - || 0 || -1 || 1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || .33 DR reduction|| Rocketeer|| 35 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 100 || 25 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Blaster Launcher Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Blaster Launcher''' || 8-16 || 0% || - || 0 || -2 || 1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Rocketeer|| 110 || Fusion Weapons || 600 || 60 || 65 || 2 || 20
|-
|}

==='''MEC Primary Weapons'''===
MEC weapons (unsurprisingly) can only be used by MECs. They are high damage and have extended range equal to marksman rifles and LMGs, but do not confer the squadsight perk, so only MEC classes that have squadsight can use the extra range. Even MECs with squadsight can only overwatch fire up to visual range.
{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | MEC Primary Weapons
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Minigun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Minigun''' || 5-9 || 10% || 9-12 || 0 || 0 || 2+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || - || MEC || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Laser Lance Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Lance''' || 7-11 || 10% || 11-16 || +7 || 0 || 3+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || - || MEC || 20 || Advanced Beam Lasers || 80 || 5 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Railgun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Railgun''' || 7-13 || 10% || 13-18 || 0 || 0 || 4+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || .33 DR reduction, no suppression || MEC || 35 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 120 || 25 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Pulse Lance Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Lance''' || 7-13 || 20% || 13-18 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || - || MEC || 65 || Advanced Pulse Lasers || 240 || 35 || 24 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Particle Cannon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Particle Cannon''' || 8-14 || 10% || 14-19 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || No suppression || MEC || 105 || Heavy Plasma Weapons || 450 || 45 || 40 || 10 || 14
|-
|}

==='''MEC Seconday Weapons'''===

With each upgrade of the MEC suit the number of utility items decreases while the number of secondary weapon systems increases. As such, they can play a vital role in area control, squad support or neutralizing targets. Be advised that unlike vanilla in Long War you have to build the systems yourself and they do cost a lot of meld.

{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | MEC Secondary Weapons
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Flamethrower Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Flamethrower''' || 4-10 || 0% || 8-11 || - || -1 || 2 || Cone || {{No Icon}} || Incendiary area attack causing panic || MEC || 20 || MEC Warfare Systems || 85 || 0 || 0 || 5 || 7
|-align=center
|[[Image: Kinetic Strike Module Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Kinetic Strike Module''' || 9-15 || 0% || 15-21 || - || -1 || ∞ || Melee || {{No Icon}} || Close combat weapon || MEC || 22 || Floater Autopsy || 200 || 15 || 2 || 8 || 10
|-align=center
|[[Image: Grenade Launcher Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Grenade Launcher''' || 3-7 || 0% || - || - || -1 || 2 || 17 || {{No Icon}} || Indirect-fire Grenade Launcher || MEC || 35 || Gauss Weapons || 150 || 12 || 0 || 6 || 10
|-align=center
|[[Image: Proximity Mine Launcher Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Prox. Mine Launcher''' || 6-12 || 0% || - || - || -1 || 3 || 17 || {{No Icon}} || Fires Proximity Mines || MEC || 40 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 150 || 12 || 0 || 10 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Restorative Mist Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Restorative Mist''' || - || 0% || - || - || -1 || 1 || 17 || {{No Icon}} || Heals allies in an area || MEC || 28 || Thin Man Autopsy || 120 || 0 || 0 || 10 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Electro Pulse Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Electro Pulse''' || 3-9 || 0% || - || - || -1 || ∞ || 17 || {{No Icon}} || Stuns robots. 3 turn cooldown || MEC || 85 || EMP Weapons || 180 || 15 || 15 || 15 || 14
|-
|}

==='''SHIV Turrets'''===
Similar to the SAW but considerably more powerful, these heavy and expensive guns are the only weapons that the SHIV can use. While they suffer from the low base aim of all SHIV units, they can shred through enemies at close range, restrict enemy movement options when in overwatch mode thanks to certain equipment, and can deal massive damage to mechanized forces when equipped with HEAT ammo.
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
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!colspan="18" | SHIV Turrets
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Autocannon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Autocannon''' || 5-9 || 10% || 9-12 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || SHIV || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Superheavy Laser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Superheavy Laser''' || 6-10 || 10% || 10-14 || +7 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || SHIV || 20 || Advanced Beam Lasers || 80|| 5 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Sentry Gun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Sentry Gun''' || 7-11 || 10% || 11-16 || 0 || 0 || 4+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || SHIV || 35 || Gauss Weapons || 120|| 15 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Superheavy Pulser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Superheavy Pulser''' || 7-13 || 20% || 13-18 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || SHIV || 65 || Pulse Lasers || 300|| 35 || 25 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Superheavy Plasma Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Superheavy Plasma''' || 8-14 || 10% || 14-19 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || SHIV || 100 || Vehicular Plasma Weapons|| 500|| 45 || 40 ||3 || 21
|-
|}

== Steadying ==
Many weapons have an extra action available: Steady Weapon. This is a standard action, which will end the turn when used, which grants +20 aim for the next shot. The bonus is discarded if the soldier moves or switches weapon. This essentially allows a soldier to fire a carefully aimed shot over two turns. The use of perks such as '''Light 'Em Up''' and '''Double Tap''' only apply the bonus to the first shot taken. Note that sniper rifles can be steadied after moving, even if the operator cannot fire them. Steady Weapon's Aim bonus also applies to fired rockets, reducing rocket scatter.

== Explosives ==
In Long War explosives no longer do fixed damage to all targets in their radius. The further a target is from the center of the blast, the less damage it will take. This also applies to cover and cover in general is a little tougher than in vanilla.

== Rockets ==
Long War uses a revamped system for rocket accuracy. Aim is used when firing rockets to determine the chance of them landing on target, rather than the fixed 90% chance in vanilla. Rather than the vanilla behavior of a missed rocket veering wildly off course, Long War rockets never "miss" but will veer off course a random amount based on the soldier's Aim, with higher Aim giving less scatter. Lower range means less scatter, and the soldier achieving 120 Aim yields no scatter at any range. Rockets can also be fired after moving, but with increased scatter and reduced range. Rockets can not change height through scatter.

The hit chance shown while aiming is not a literal % hit chance, nor is it the maximum scatter distance. "Scatter" instead indicates the standard deviation on the X and Y axis. You can expect 68% of your rockets to hit within the standard deviation, 95% to hit within 2 times the standard deviation, and 99.7% to hit within 3 times the standard deviation. Rockets can exceed even this degree of deviation, but the chance is negligible.

Unblocked (no "Shot is Blocked" warning) rockets that veer off course will travel through most destructible terrain to their destination, destroying it in the process. If they encounter an allied or enemy pawn, they will detonate immediately.

[[Category: Long War]]

Weapons (Long War)

2014-11-08T02:02:07Z

Boris: /* Carbines */ Removed "+1" from all ammo counts. Since SAWs are the only exception, I'm just adding note "+1 ammo (+2 for SAWs)" to Hi Cap Mags.

{{CheckOutdated (Long War)|b14}}
Long War makes several changes to weapons:
* There are five tiers of weapons: Conventional/Ballistic, Beam Laser, Gauss, Pulse Laser, Plasma.
* There are several additional types of primary and secondary weapon available in each tier.
* Many weapons can be Steadied as an action to improve aim for the next turn.
* Explosives no longer do fixed damage, and their damage reduces the further a target is from the center of the blast.
* Rocket launchers use a revamped accuracy system using the soldier's aim.
==Weapon tiers==
===Conventional/Ballistic===
These are the basic weapons you start with - and whilst they're okay to begin with, they're not going to be up to scratch in the long run. The sawed-off shotgun is unique to this tier. Ballistic weapons use the same models as EXALT ballistic weapons in vanilla.

===Beam Lasers===
Early beam lasers form the second tier of weapons, and all carry a small inherent accuracy bonus, which can make them good 'training' weapons for inexperienced troopers or as aiming aid for rocketeers in their aiming of explosives (much like you might otherwise issue them regular carbines). They also have a little more firepower than Ballistic weapons, but it still won't be enough in the long run. Although skipping laser weaponry in vanilla is a viable and at times easy-to-pull-off gambit, in long war expense of gauss weapons combined with the tighter economy makes this less appealing, and the aim bonus beam lasers confer makes them arguably better early game than gauss anyway. Beam Lasers use the same visuals as EXALT laser weapons in vanilla.

===Gauss===
Gauss weapons return to ballistic projectiles but elerium power sources make man-portable magnetic accelerators practical; combined with alloy-based projectiles, it's a recipe for pretty formidable personal weaponry. In general Gauss weapons have a larger clip size, which can make this tier of weapons preferable for soldiers that has ammo-intensive perks or abilities such as flush ,suppression, collateral damage, in the zone, close combat specialist, close encounters, light 'em up, and rapid fire. Uniquely, the sniper rifle of this tier--the Gauss long rifle--grants snipers the HEAT ammo perk, whom otherwise can't obtain said perk normally. This makes Gauss snipers a powerful counter to mechanical leaders/bosses whom can have over 50 health and a staggering amount of damage reduction; though in return, the Gauss long rifle has a rather inconvenient clip size of 1. Gauss weapons use the original XCOM weapon models.

Note: There are plans to give this tier of weaponry additional damage reduction penetration in '''future editions''' of the mod. (b14)

===Pulse Lasers===
Refining and enhancing laser technology allows for the development of pulse laser weaponry, another step up in terms of firepower. Pulse laser weapons have a bonus to their critical hit chance, which might make them more preferable to laser weapons in the hands of crit-focused assaults and snipers. They use the same visuals as XCOM-built laser weaponry.
===Plasma===
Plasma tier weapons are the most powerful in terms of raw damage, but also expensive and hard to obtain; building them requires captured alien weapons as production components... which means you'll have to stun and capture aliens for every weapon you want to build.
== Weapon types==
Long War adds many new types of primary and secondary weapon. Most of these weapon types have a corresponding weapon at each technology level. The primary weapon types are, in descending order of average damage: '''SHIV/MEC Primary Weapons''' > '''Light Machine Guns''' and '''Shotguns''' > '''Heavy Rifles''', '''Marksman/Sniper rifles''' and '''Squad Automatic Weapon''' > '''Assault Rifles''' > '''Carbines''' and '''Submachine Guns'''. In general, the more powerful a weapon is the more unwieldy it is as well, and that will reflect in aim and mobility penalties/bonuses. The MEC version of heavy machine guns have a unusually large deviation of +/-4. And finally Shotguns' damage is severely impeded by damage reduction.

=== '''Pistols''' ===
The default sidearm, very similar to vanilla pistols, except that they do not have unlimited ammo. Pistols have shorter effective range than assault rifles unless the soldier possesses the Gunslinger perk.
{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | Pistols
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:Pistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pistol''' || 1-3 || 0% || 3-4 || 0 || 0 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} ||Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 0 ||None ||colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Laser Pistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]] '''Laser Pistol''' || 2-4 || 0% || 4-5 || +7 || 0 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}}|| Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer|| 15|| Beam weapons || 30 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 10
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Pistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]] '''Plasma Pistol''' || 3-5 || 0% || 5-7 || 0 || 0 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}}|| Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 90|| Compact Plasma Weapons || 175 || 25 || 20 || 1 || 12
|-
|}

==='''Machine Pistols'''===
A more damaging sidearm, but at the cost of added weight and decreased aim when drawn. Machine Pistols also tend to have very limited ammo. Useful for a Gunslinger soldier to finish off targets.
{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | Machine Pistols
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:Machine pistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Machine Pistol''' || 2-4 || 0% || 4-5 || -10 || -1 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 0|| None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Heater Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heater''' || 3-5 || 0% || 5-7 || -3 || -1 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 15|| Beam weapons || 30 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Gauss Autopistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Autopistol''' || 3-5 || 0% || 5-7 || -10 || -1 || 3 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 28 || Gauss Weapons || 40 || 4 || 1 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Blaster Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Blaster''' || 4-6 || 10% || 6-9 || -10 || -1 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 60 || Pulse Lasers || 80 || 12 || 8 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Mauler Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Mauler''' || 4-8 || 0% || 8-11 || -10 || -2 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 90 || Compact Plasma Weapons || 230|| 30 || 20 || 1 || 12
|-
|}

==='''SMG'''===
SMGs confer +3 mobility bonus and have the lowest damage and crit chance of all the primary weapons. Unlike Carbines, SMGs do not grant bonus accuracy. They're very useful for classes that need to reposition quickly to bring explosives and other area weapons against enemies, making them a good choice for Rocketeers and Engineers. Scouts, who might use the added mobility usually require something that packs a punch, like a Shotgun or any Rifle.
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:SMG Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Submachine Gun''' || 2-4 || 0% || 4-5 || 0 || +3 || 2 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 0|| None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Laser Shatterray Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Shatterray''' || 3-5 || 0% || 5-7 || +7 || +3 || 2 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 15 || Beam Weapons || 35 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Gauss Stuttergun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Stuttergun''' || 4-6 || 0% || 6-9 || 0 || +3 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || All || 28 || Gauss Weapons || 75 || 6 || 1 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Pulse Stengun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Stengun''' || 4-8 || 10% || 8-11 || 0 || +3 || 2 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 62 || Pulse Lasers || 120 || 15 || 10 || 0 ||12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Stormgun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Stormgun''' || 5-9 || 0% || 9-12 || 0 || +3 || 2 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 90 || Plasma Weapons || 200 || 30 || 20 || 1 || 12
|-
|}

==='''Carbines'''===
Carbines are light versions of assault rifles. They have reduced damage and crit chance, but confer +1 mobility and an accuracy bonus. They are ideal for inexperienced troops and those that need to move quickly, but experienced troops should switch to other weapons quickly as tougher aliens begin to appear.
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
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|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:Assault Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Assault Carbine''' || 2-4 || 5% || 4-5 || +7 || +1 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Laser Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Carbine''' || 3-5 || 5% || 5-7 || +15 || +1 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 15 || Beam weapons || 40 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Gauss Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Carbine''' || 4-6 || 5% || 6-9 || +7 || +1 || 4 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || All || 30 || Gauss Weapons || 95 || 8 || 2 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Pulse Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Carbine''' || 4-8 || 15% || 8-11 || +7 || +1 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 63 || Pulse Lasers || 180 || 15 || 15 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Carbine''' || 5-9 || 5% || 9-12 || +7 || +1 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 90 || Plasma Weapons || 280 || 30 || 25 || 1 || 12
|-
|}

==='''Assault Rifles'''===
These are the baseline assault rifles, similar to their vanilla counterparts. They have a respectable balance of firepower and accuracy. 
The Arc Rifle is a special Rifle that grants Disabling Shot with the regular 2-turn cooldown, although it does not confer the snap shot perk. It has low damage and ammo capacity. Useful early on for raiding small UFO's with capable soldiers and plenty of arc thrower uses.

{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | Assault Rifles
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:Assault Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Assault Rifle''' || 3-5 || 10% || 5-7 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Laser Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Rifle''' || 4-6 || 10% || 6-9 || +7 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 15 || Beam weapons || 50 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Gauss Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Rifle''' || 4-8 || 10% || 8-11 || 0 || 0 || 4+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || All || 30 || Gauss Weapons || 100 || 12 || 2 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image:Pulse Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Rifle''' || 5-9 || 20% || 9-12 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 60 || Pulse Lasers || 200 || 20 || 15 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Rifle''' || 6-10 || 10% || 10-14 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer|| 95 || Advanced Plasma Weapons || 380 || 40 || 30 || 2 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Arc Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Arc Rifle''' || 1-3 || 0% || 3-4 || 0 || 0 || 2+1 || 200 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Grants Disabling Shot, Cannot fire after any costly action || All except Gunners and Rocketeers || 25 || Xenoneurology New Combat Systems || 60 || 2 || 2 || 0 || 10
|-
|}

==='''Battle Rifle'''===
Battle Rifles are heavier versions of assault rifles. They do increased damage and have one additional burst relative to assault rifles, but carry a mobility penalty and a hefty aim penalty. They are best used by experienced soldiers who can aim well enough to offset the penalty (Infantry in particular, thanks to their high aim progression and ability to fire multiple times per turn cycle).
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! colspan="18" | Battle Rifles
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:Battle Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Battle Rifle''' || 4-6 || 10% || 6-9 || -15 || -1 || 4+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Heavy Laser Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heavy Laser Rifle''' || 4-8|| 15% || 8-11 || -8 || -1 || 4+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 20 || Advanced Beam Lasers || 70 || 4 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Heavy Gauss Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heavy Gauss Rifle''' || 5-9 || 15% || 9-12 || -15 || -1 || 5+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 40 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 140 || 15 || 5 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image:Heavy Pulse Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heavy Pulse Rifle''' || 6-10 || 25% || 10-14 || -15 || -1 || 4+1|| 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 67 || Advanced Pulse Lasers || 220 || 25 || 20 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Heavy Plasma Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heavy Plasma Rifle''' || 7-11 || 15% || 11-16 || -15 || -1 || 4+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 105 || Heavy Plasma Weapons || 400 || 40 || 28 || 2 || 18
|-
|}

==='''Shotgun'''===
Long War shotgun-type weapons are similar to their vanilla counterparts. High damage, high crit chance, short range. Shotguns are extremely accurate up close, but suffer from very poor accuracy over longer ranges (even with Cinematic Mode enabled). As such, they work best with highly mobile classes or those that only ever expect to engage enemies up close, like Assault and Scout soldiers. 

The sawed-off shotgun, a point-blank range, high damage sidearm with -1 mobility. It has only one shot, and this cannot be increased by ammo capacity upgrades.
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!colspan="18" | Shotguns
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Shotgun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Shotgun''' || 4-8 || 20% || 8-11 || 0 || 0 || 5+1 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage Reduction]] penalty || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Sawed-off Shotgun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Sawed-Off Shotgun''' || 4-8 || 5% || 8-11 || -15 || -1 || 1 || 3 || {{No Icon}} || Sidearm. Confers -1 mobility. Can only be used at point blank range. || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 1 || None || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 1
|-align=center
|[[Image: Scatter Laser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Scatter Laser''' || 5-9 || 20% || 9-12 || +7 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage reduction]] penalty
| Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 18 || Advanced Beam Weapons || 80 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Alloy Cannon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Alloy Cannon''' || 6-10 || 20% || 10-14 || 0 || 0 || 4+1 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage reduction]] penalty .33 DR reduction
| Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 32 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 150 || 18 || 5 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Scatter Blaster Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Scatter Blaster''' || 7-11 || 30% || 11-16 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage reduction]] penalty
| Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 62 || Advanced Pulse Weapons || 250 || 20 || 20 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Reflex Cannon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Reflex Cannon''' || 7-13 || 20% || 13-18 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage reduction]] penalty
| Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 102 || Sectopod Autopsy || 500 || 40 || 30 || 2 || 18
|-
|}

==='''Sniper Rifle'''===
Sniper Rifles are mostly identical to their vanilla counterparts and can only be used by Snipers. They have very long range (double the range of vanilla, making it functionally infinite), but can only be fired if the user has not taken a costly, including reloading, unless they have Snap Shot training. Long War sniper rifles have higher penalties when used at short range than vanilla sniper rifles. Sniper rifles can only overwatch fire up to visual range, so consider steadying the weapon instead to end a turn without targets (especially if you don't have snapshot training).
{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | Sniper Rifles
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Sniper Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Sniper Rifle''' || 4-6 || 25% || 6-9 || 0 || -1 || 5+1 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty || Sniper || 0 ||None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Laser Sniper Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Sniper Rifle''' || 4-8 || 25% || 8-11 || +7 || -1 || 3+1 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty || Sniper || 18 || Advanced Beam Weapons || 50 || 4 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gauss Long Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Long Rifle''' || 5-9 || 10% || 9-12 || 0 || -2 || 1+1 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty Grants HEAT Ammo perk. .33 DR reduction || Sniper || 35 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 250 || 15 || 5 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Pulse Sniper Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Sniper Rifle''' || 6-10 || 35% || 10-14 || 0 || -1 || 3+1 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty || Sniper || 65 || Advanced Pulse Lasers || 250 || 25|| 20 || 0|| 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Plasma Sniper Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Sniper Rifle''' || 7-11 || 25% || 11-16 || 0 || -1 || 3+1 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty || Sniper || 105 || Precision Plasma Weapons || 500 || 45 || 30 || 2 || 18
|-
|}

==='''Marksman Rifle'''===
Marksman rifles are smaller versions of sniper rifles that can also only be used by the Sniper and Scout classes. They have longer range than most weapons, but considerably shorter than sniper rifles nonetheless can be fired after moving. Like sniper rifles, marksman rifles have hefty accuracy penalties when used at short range. Marksman rifles have the same base damage as sniper rifles, but considerably lower crit chance. Marksman rifles can fire reaction shots up to their maximum range, and with Precision Shot they have unlimited range. 
Marksman Rifles are better suited to close-quarters maps where mobility is essential. 
{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | Marksman Rifles
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Marksman Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Marksman Rifle''' || 4-6 || 15% || 6-9 || 0 || 0 || 5+1 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty || Scout, Sniper || 0 ||None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Laser Strike Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Strike Rifle''' || 4-8 || 15% || 8-11 || +7 || 0 || 3+1 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty || Scout, Sniper || 18 || Advanced Beam Lasers || 50 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image: Alloy Strike Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Alloy Strike Rifle''' || 5-9 || 15% || 9-12 || 0 || 0 || 4+1 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty .33 DR reduction || Scout, Sniper || 35 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 120 || 15 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Blaster Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Blaster Rifle''' || 6-10 || 25% || 10-14 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty || Scout, Sniper || 67 || Advanced Pulse Lasers || 220 || 25 || 20 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Reflex Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Reflex Rifle''' || 7-11 || 15% || 11-16 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty || Scout, Sniper || 102 || Precision Plasma Weapons || 450 || 40 || 30 || 2 || 18
|-
|}

==='''Squad Automatic Weapon'''===
SAW-type weapons are the closest equivalent to vanilla LMGs in Long War. They can only be used by the Gunner class. SAWs have larger magazines and higher damage than assault rifles but confer a mobility penalty and can't be steadied. They allow faster movement than LMGs, but have less ammo and deal less damage. Suppressing a target with a SAW grants the Opportunist perk for any reaction fire triggered by enemy movement
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!colspan="18" | Squad Automatic Weapons
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: SAW Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''SAW''' || 4-6 || 0% || 6-9 || 0 || -1 || 6+2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Gunner || 0 ||None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Autolaser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Autolaser''' || 4-8 || 0% || 8-11 || +7 || -1 || 6+2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Gunner || 65 || Beam Weapons || 60 || 4 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gauss Autorifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Autorifle''' || 5-9 || 0% || 9-12 || 0 || -1 || 7+2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || Gunner || 32 || Gauss Weapons || 110 || 15 || 2 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Pulse Autoblaster Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Autoblaster''' || 6-10 || 10% || 10-14 || 0 || -1 || 6+2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Gunner || 65 || Pulse Lasers || 230 || 30 || 20 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Plasma Novagun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Novagun''' || 7-11 || 0% || 11-16 || 0 || -1 || 6+2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Gunner || 98 || Advanced Plasma Weapons || 500 || 45 || 30 || 2 || 20
|-
|}

==='''Light Machine Gun'''===
LMG-type weapons are larger versions of SAWs and are also only usable by the Gunner class. LMGs carry a mobility penalty and can only fire if the user has not moved, but in return they have even larger magazines and even higher damage than SAWs. LMGs also have a slightly longer range than most weapons and confer the Squadsight perk on the user so they can make use of the extra range. When an LMG is used to suppress, the reaction shot taken if the target moves suffers no aim penalty and can crit. LMGs can only overwatch fire up to visual range. 
LMGs are ideal for heavy defensive situations where the Gunner can situate themselves securely and guard a given area using normal and reaction fire.
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!colspan="18" | Light Machine Guns
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: LMG Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''LMG''' || 4-8 || 5% || 8-11 || 0 || -2 || 8+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight || Gunner || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gatling Laser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gatling Laser''' || 5-9 || 5% || 9-12 || +7 || -2 || 8+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight || Gunner || 18 || Beam weapons || 60 || 5 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gauss Machine Gun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Machine Gun''' || 6-10 || 5% || 10-14 || 0 || -2 || 9+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight .33 DR reduction || Gunner || 40 || Gauss Weapons || 140 || 16 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gatling Pulser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gatling Pulser''' || 7-11 || 15% || 11-16 || 0 || -2 || 8+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight || Gunner || 64 || Pulse Lasers || 215 || 35 || 22 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Plasma Dragon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Dragon''' || 7-13 || 5% || 13-18 || 0 || -2 || 8+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight || Gunner || 105 || Heavy Plasma Weapons || 500 || 48 || 32 || 2 || 20
|-
|}

==='''Rocket Launchers'''===
Sometimes you just have to make a good first-time impression. Sometimes you just happen to not have the right key for a door. Sometimes you just want to give those aliens a running start on their way back - do not fret, Xcom have some portable rocket launchers for you! 

Rockets are fairly simple to use - pick youр ability, aim and fire. There is always some guaranteed scatter which is limited by the soldier's Aim and Abilities. While mostly used by Rocketeers, Engineers also have the ability at later stages of the game to carry a rocket launcher. Carrying one forfeits your sidearm. For more information regarding rockets read bellow.
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!colspan="18" | Rocket Launchers
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Rocket Launcher Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Rocket Launcher''' || 4-10 || 0% || - || 0 || -1 || 1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Rocketeer|| 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Recoilless Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Recoilless Rifle''' || 6-12 || 0% || - || 0 || -1 || 1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || .33 DR reduction|| Rocketeer|| 35 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 100 || 25 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Blaster Launcher Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Blaster Launcher''' || 8-16 || 0% || - || 0 || -2 || 1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Rocketeer|| 110 || Fusion Weapons || 600 || 60 || 65 || 2 || 20
|-
|}

==='''MEC Primary Weapons'''===
MEC weapons (unsurprisingly) can only be used by MECs. They are high damage and have extended range equal to marksman rifles and LMGs, but do not confer the squadsight perk, so only MEC classes that have squadsight can use the extra range. Even MECs with squadsight can only overwatch fire up to visual range.
{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | MEC Primary Weapons
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Minigun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Minigun''' || 5-9 || 10% || 9-12 || 0 || 0 || 2+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || - || MEC || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Laser Lance Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Lance''' || 7-11 || 10% || 11-16 || +7 || 0 || 3+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || - || MEC || 20 || Advanced Beam Lasers || 80 || 5 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Railgun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Railgun''' || 7-13 || 10% || 13-18 || 0 || 0 || 4+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || .33 DR reduction, no suppression || MEC || 35 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 120 || 25 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Pulse Lance Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Lance''' || 7-13 || 20% || 13-18 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || - || MEC || 65 || Advanced Pulse Lasers || 240 || 35 || 24 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Particle Cannon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Particle Cannon''' || 8-14 || 10% || 14-19 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || No suppression || MEC || 105 || Heavy Plasma Weapons || 450 || 45 || 40 || 10 || 14
|-
|}

==='''MEC Seconday Weapons'''===

With each upgrade of the MEC suit the number of utility items decreases while the number of secondary weapon systems increases. As such, they can play a vital role in area control, squad support or neutralizing targets. Be advised that unlike vanilla in Long War you have to build the systems yourself and they do cost a lot of meld.

{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | MEC Secondary Weapons
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Flamethrower Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Flamethrower''' || 4-10 || 0% || 8-11 || - || -1 || 2 || Cone || {{No Icon}} || Incendiary area attack causing panic || MEC || 20 || MEC Warfare Systems || 85 || 0 || 0 || 5 || 7
|-align=center
|[[Image: Kinetic Strike Module Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Kinetic Strike Module''' || 9-15 || 0% || 15-21 || - || -1 || ∞ || Melee || {{No Icon}} || Close combat weapon || MEC || 22 || Floater Autopsy || 200 || 15 || 2 || 8 || 10
|-align=center
|[[Image: Grenade Launcher Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Grenade Launcher''' || 3-7 || 0% || - || - || -1 || 2 || 17 || {{No Icon}} || Indirect-fire Grenade Launcher || MEC || 35 || Gauss Weapons || 150 || 12 || 0 || 6 || 10
|-align=center
|[[Image: Proximity Mine Launcher Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Prox. Mine Launcher''' || 6-12 || 0% || - || - || -1 || 3 || 17 || {{No Icon}} || Fires Proximity Mines || MEC || 40 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 150 || 12 || 0 || 10 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Restorative Mist Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Restorative Mist''' || - || 0% || - || - || -1 || 1 || 17 || {{No Icon}} || Heals allies in an area || MEC || 28 || Thin Man Autopsy || 120 || 0 || 0 || 10 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Electro Pulse Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Electro Pulse''' || 3-9 || 0% || - || - || -1 || ∞ || 17 || {{No Icon}} || Stuns robots. 3 turn cooldown || MEC || 85 || EMP Weapons || 180 || 15 || 15 || 15 || 14
|-
|}

==='''SHIV Turrets'''===
Similar to the SAW but considerably more powerful, these heavy and expensive guns are the only weapons that the SHIV can use. While they suffer from the low base aim of all SHIV units, they can shred through enemies at close range, restrict enemy movement options when in overwatch mode thanks to certain equipment, and can deal massive damage to mechanized forces when equipped with HEAT ammo.
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!colspan="18" | SHIV Turrets
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Autocannon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Autocannon''' || 5-9 || 10% || 9-12 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || SHIV || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Superheavy Laser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Superheavy Laser''' || 6-10 || 10% || 10-14 || +7 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || SHIV || 20 || Advanced Beam Lasers || 80|| 5 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Sentry Gun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Sentry Gun''' || 7-11 || 10% || 11-16 || 0 || 0 || 4+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || SHIV || 35 || Gauss Weapons || 120|| 15 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Superheavy Pulser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Superheavy Pulser''' || 7-13 || 20% || 13-18 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || SHIV || 65 || Pulse Lasers || 300|| 35 || 25 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Superheavy Plasma Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Superheavy Plasma''' || 8-14 || 10% || 14-19 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || SHIV || 100 || Vehicular Plasma Weapons|| 500|| 45 || 40 ||3 || 21
|-
|}

== Steadying ==
Many weapons have an extra action available: Steady Weapon. This is a standard action, which will end the turn when used, which grants +20 aim for the next shot. The bonus is discarded if the soldier moves or switches weapon. This essentially allows a soldier to fire a carefully aimed shot over two turns. The use of perks such as '''Light 'Em Up''' and '''Double Tap''' only apply the bonus to the first shot taken. Note that sniper rifles can be steadied after moving, even if the operator cannot fire them. Steady Weapon's Aim bonus also applies to fired rockets, reducing rocket scatter.

== Explosives ==
In Long War explosives no longer do fixed damage to all targets in their radius. The further a target is from the center of the blast, the less damage it will take. This also applies to cover and cover in general is a little tougher than in vanilla.

== Rockets ==
Long War uses a revamped system for rocket accuracy. Aim is used when firing rockets to determine the chance of them landing on target, rather than the fixed 90% chance in vanilla. Rather than the vanilla behavior of a missed rocket veering wildly off course, Long War rockets never "miss" but will veer off course a random amount based on the soldier's Aim, with higher Aim giving less scatter. Lower range means less scatter, and the soldier achieving 120 Aim yields no scatter at any range. Rockets can also be fired after moving, but with increased scatter and reduced range. Rockets can not change height through scatter.

The hit chance shown while aiming is not a literal % hit chance, nor is it the maximum scatter distance. "Scatter" instead indicates the standard deviation on the X and Y axis. You can expect 68% of your rockets to hit within the standard deviation, 95% to hit within 2 times the standard deviation, and 99.7% to hit within 3 times the standard deviation. Rockets can exceed even this degree of deviation, but the chance is negligible.

Unblocked (no "Shot is Blocked" warning) rockets that veer off course will travel through most destructible terrain to their destination, destroying it in the process. If they encounter an allied or enemy pawn, they will detonate immediately.

[[Category: Long War]]

Weapons (Long War)

2014-11-08T02:01:04Z

Boris: /* SMG */ Removed "+1" from all ammo counts. Since SAWs are the only exception, I'm just adding note "+1 ammo (+2 for SAWs)" to Hi Cap Mags.

{{CheckOutdated (Long War)|b14}}
Long War makes several changes to weapons:
* There are five tiers of weapons: Conventional/Ballistic, Beam Laser, Gauss, Pulse Laser, Plasma.
* There are several additional types of primary and secondary weapon available in each tier.
* Many weapons can be Steadied as an action to improve aim for the next turn.
* Explosives no longer do fixed damage, and their damage reduces the further a target is from the center of the blast.
* Rocket launchers use a revamped accuracy system using the soldier's aim.
==Weapon tiers==
===Conventional/Ballistic===
These are the basic weapons you start with - and whilst they're okay to begin with, they're not going to be up to scratch in the long run. The sawed-off shotgun is unique to this tier. Ballistic weapons use the same models as EXALT ballistic weapons in vanilla.

===Beam Lasers===
Early beam lasers form the second tier of weapons, and all carry a small inherent accuracy bonus, which can make them good 'training' weapons for inexperienced troopers or as aiming aid for rocketeers in their aiming of explosives (much like you might otherwise issue them regular carbines). They also have a little more firepower than Ballistic weapons, but it still won't be enough in the long run. Although skipping laser weaponry in vanilla is a viable and at times easy-to-pull-off gambit, in long war expense of gauss weapons combined with the tighter economy makes this less appealing, and the aim bonus beam lasers confer makes them arguably better early game than gauss anyway. Beam Lasers use the same visuals as EXALT laser weapons in vanilla.

===Gauss===
Gauss weapons return to ballistic projectiles but elerium power sources make man-portable magnetic accelerators practical; combined with alloy-based projectiles, it's a recipe for pretty formidable personal weaponry. In general Gauss weapons have a larger clip size, which can make this tier of weapons preferable for soldiers that has ammo-intensive perks or abilities such as flush ,suppression, collateral damage, in the zone, close combat specialist, close encounters, light 'em up, and rapid fire. Uniquely, the sniper rifle of this tier--the Gauss long rifle--grants snipers the HEAT ammo perk, whom otherwise can't obtain said perk normally. This makes Gauss snipers a powerful counter to mechanical leaders/bosses whom can have over 50 health and a staggering amount of damage reduction; though in return, the Gauss long rifle has a rather inconvenient clip size of 1. Gauss weapons use the original XCOM weapon models.

Note: There are plans to give this tier of weaponry additional damage reduction penetration in '''future editions''' of the mod. (b14)

===Pulse Lasers===
Refining and enhancing laser technology allows for the development of pulse laser weaponry, another step up in terms of firepower. Pulse laser weapons have a bonus to their critical hit chance, which might make them more preferable to laser weapons in the hands of crit-focused assaults and snipers. They use the same visuals as XCOM-built laser weaponry.
===Plasma===
Plasma tier weapons are the most powerful in terms of raw damage, but also expensive and hard to obtain; building them requires captured alien weapons as production components... which means you'll have to stun and capture aliens for every weapon you want to build.
== Weapon types==
Long War adds many new types of primary and secondary weapon. Most of these weapon types have a corresponding weapon at each technology level. The primary weapon types are, in descending order of average damage: '''SHIV/MEC Primary Weapons''' > '''Light Machine Guns''' and '''Shotguns''' > '''Heavy Rifles''', '''Marksman/Sniper rifles''' and '''Squad Automatic Weapon''' > '''Assault Rifles''' > '''Carbines''' and '''Submachine Guns'''. In general, the more powerful a weapon is the more unwieldy it is as well, and that will reflect in aim and mobility penalties/bonuses. The MEC version of heavy machine guns have a unusually large deviation of +/-4. And finally Shotguns' damage is severely impeded by damage reduction.

=== '''Pistols''' ===
The default sidearm, very similar to vanilla pistols, except that they do not have unlimited ammo. Pistols have shorter effective range than assault rifles unless the soldier possesses the Gunslinger perk.
{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | Pistols
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:Pistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pistol''' || 1-3 || 0% || 3-4 || 0 || 0 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} ||Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 0 ||None ||colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Laser Pistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]] '''Laser Pistol''' || 2-4 || 0% || 4-5 || +7 || 0 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}}|| Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer|| 15|| Beam weapons || 30 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 10
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Pistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]] '''Plasma Pistol''' || 3-5 || 0% || 5-7 || 0 || 0 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}}|| Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 90|| Compact Plasma Weapons || 175 || 25 || 20 || 1 || 12
|-
|}

==='''Machine Pistols'''===
A more damaging sidearm, but at the cost of added weight and decreased aim when drawn. Machine Pistols also tend to have very limited ammo. Useful for a Gunslinger soldier to finish off targets.
{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | Machine Pistols
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:Machine pistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Machine Pistol''' || 2-4 || 0% || 4-5 || -10 || -1 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 0|| None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Heater Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heater''' || 3-5 || 0% || 5-7 || -3 || -1 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 15|| Beam weapons || 30 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Gauss Autopistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Autopistol''' || 3-5 || 0% || 5-7 || -10 || -1 || 3 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 28 || Gauss Weapons || 40 || 4 || 1 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Blaster Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Blaster''' || 4-6 || 10% || 6-9 || -10 || -1 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 60 || Pulse Lasers || 80 || 12 || 8 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Mauler Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Mauler''' || 4-8 || 0% || 8-11 || -10 || -2 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 90 || Compact Plasma Weapons || 230|| 30 || 20 || 1 || 12
|-
|}

==='''SMG'''===
SMGs confer +3 mobility bonus and have the lowest damage and crit chance of all the primary weapons. Unlike Carbines, SMGs do not grant bonus accuracy. They're very useful for classes that need to reposition quickly to bring explosives and other area weapons against enemies, making them a good choice for Rocketeers and Engineers. Scouts, who might use the added mobility usually require something that packs a punch, like a Shotgun or any Rifle.
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
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!colspan="18" | SMGs
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:SMG Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Submachine Gun''' || 2-4 || 0% || 4-5 || 0 || +3 || 2 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 0|| None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Laser Shatterray Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Shatterray''' || 3-5 || 0% || 5-7 || +7 || +3 || 2 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 15 || Beam Weapons || 35 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Gauss Stuttergun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Stuttergun''' || 4-6 || 0% || 6-9 || 0 || +3 || 3 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || All || 28 || Gauss Weapons || 75 || 6 || 1 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Pulse Stengun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Stengun''' || 4-8 || 10% || 8-11 || 0 || +3 || 2 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 62 || Pulse Lasers || 120 || 15 || 10 || 0 ||12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Stormgun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Stormgun''' || 5-9 || 0% || 9-12 || 0 || +3 || 2 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 90 || Plasma Weapons || 200 || 30 || 20 || 1 || 12
|-
|}

==='''Carbines'''===
Carbines are light versions of assault rifles. They have reduced damage and crit chance, but confer +1 mobility and an accuracy bonus. They are ideal for inexperienced troops and those that need to move quickly, but experienced troops should switch to other weapons quickly as tougher aliens begin to appear.
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
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!colspan="18" | Carbines
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:Assault Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Assault Carbine''' || 2-4 || 5% || 4-5 || +7 || +1 || 3+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Laser Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Carbine''' || 3-5 || 5% || 5-7 || +15 || +1 || 3+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 15 || Beam weapons || 40 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Gauss Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Carbine''' || 4-6 || 5% || 6-9 || +7 || +1 || 4+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || All || 30 || Gauss Weapons || 95 || 8 || 2 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Pulse Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Carbine''' || 4-8 || 15% || 8-11 || +7 || +1 || 3+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 63 || Pulse Lasers || 180 || 15 || 15 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Carbine''' || 5-9 || 5% || 9-12 || +7 || +1 || 3+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 90 || Plasma Weapons || 280 || 30 || 25 || 1 || 12
|-
|}

==='''Assault Rifles'''===
These are the baseline assault rifles, similar to their vanilla counterparts. They have a respectable balance of firepower and accuracy. 
The Arc Rifle is a special Rifle that grants Disabling Shot with the regular 2-turn cooldown, although it does not confer the snap shot perk. It has low damage and ammo capacity. Useful early on for raiding small UFO's with capable soldiers and plenty of arc thrower uses.

{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | Assault Rifles
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:Assault Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Assault Rifle''' || 3-5 || 10% || 5-7 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Laser Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Rifle''' || 4-6 || 10% || 6-9 || +7 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 15 || Beam weapons || 50 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Gauss Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Rifle''' || 4-8 || 10% || 8-11 || 0 || 0 || 4+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || All || 30 || Gauss Weapons || 100 || 12 || 2 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image:Pulse Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Rifle''' || 5-9 || 20% || 9-12 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 60 || Pulse Lasers || 200 || 20 || 15 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Rifle''' || 6-10 || 10% || 10-14 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer|| 95 || Advanced Plasma Weapons || 380 || 40 || 30 || 2 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Arc Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Arc Rifle''' || 1-3 || 0% || 3-4 || 0 || 0 || 2+1 || 200 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Grants Disabling Shot, Cannot fire after any costly action || All except Gunners and Rocketeers || 25 || Xenoneurology New Combat Systems || 60 || 2 || 2 || 0 || 10
|-
|}

==='''Battle Rifle'''===
Battle Rifles are heavier versions of assault rifles. They do increased damage and have one additional burst relative to assault rifles, but carry a mobility penalty and a hefty aim penalty. They are best used by experienced soldiers who can aim well enough to offset the penalty (Infantry in particular, thanks to their high aim progression and ability to fire multiple times per turn cycle).
{| class="wikitable"
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! colspan="18" | Battle Rifles
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:Battle Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Battle Rifle''' || 4-6 || 10% || 6-9 || -15 || -1 || 4+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Heavy Laser Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heavy Laser Rifle''' || 4-8|| 15% || 8-11 || -8 || -1 || 4+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 20 || Advanced Beam Lasers || 70 || 4 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Heavy Gauss Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heavy Gauss Rifle''' || 5-9 || 15% || 9-12 || -15 || -1 || 5+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 40 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 140 || 15 || 5 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image:Heavy Pulse Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heavy Pulse Rifle''' || 6-10 || 25% || 10-14 || -15 || -1 || 4+1|| 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 67 || Advanced Pulse Lasers || 220 || 25 || 20 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Heavy Plasma Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heavy Plasma Rifle''' || 7-11 || 15% || 11-16 || -15 || -1 || 4+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 105 || Heavy Plasma Weapons || 400 || 40 || 28 || 2 || 18
|-
|}

==='''Shotgun'''===
Long War shotgun-type weapons are similar to their vanilla counterparts. High damage, high crit chance, short range. Shotguns are extremely accurate up close, but suffer from very poor accuracy over longer ranges (even with Cinematic Mode enabled). As such, they work best with highly mobile classes or those that only ever expect to engage enemies up close, like Assault and Scout soldiers. 

The sawed-off shotgun, a point-blank range, high damage sidearm with -1 mobility. It has only one shot, and this cannot be increased by ammo capacity upgrades.
{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | Shotguns
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Shotgun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Shotgun''' || 4-8 || 20% || 8-11 || 0 || 0 || 5+1 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage Reduction]] penalty || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Sawed-off Shotgun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Sawed-Off Shotgun''' || 4-8 || 5% || 8-11 || -15 || -1 || 1 || 3 || {{No Icon}} || Sidearm. Confers -1 mobility. Can only be used at point blank range. || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 1 || None || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 1
|-align=center
|[[Image: Scatter Laser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Scatter Laser''' || 5-9 || 20% || 9-12 || +7 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage reduction]] penalty
| Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 18 || Advanced Beam Weapons || 80 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Alloy Cannon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Alloy Cannon''' || 6-10 || 20% || 10-14 || 0 || 0 || 4+1 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage reduction]] penalty .33 DR reduction
| Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 32 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 150 || 18 || 5 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Scatter Blaster Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Scatter Blaster''' || 7-11 || 30% || 11-16 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage reduction]] penalty
| Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 62 || Advanced Pulse Weapons || 250 || 20 || 20 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Reflex Cannon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Reflex Cannon''' || 7-13 || 20% || 13-18 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage reduction]] penalty
| Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 102 || Sectopod Autopsy || 500 || 40 || 30 || 2 || 18
|-
|}

==='''Sniper Rifle'''===
Sniper Rifles are mostly identical to their vanilla counterparts and can only be used by Snipers. They have very long range (double the range of vanilla, making it functionally infinite), but can only be fired if the user has not taken a costly, including reloading, unless they have Snap Shot training. Long War sniper rifles have higher penalties when used at short range than vanilla sniper rifles. Sniper rifles can only overwatch fire up to visual range, so consider steadying the weapon instead to end a turn without targets (especially if you don't have snapshot training).
{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | Sniper Rifles
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Sniper Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Sniper Rifle''' || 4-6 || 25% || 6-9 || 0 || -1 || 5+1 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty || Sniper || 0 ||None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Laser Sniper Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Sniper Rifle''' || 4-8 || 25% || 8-11 || +7 || -1 || 3+1 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty || Sniper || 18 || Advanced Beam Weapons || 50 || 4 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gauss Long Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Long Rifle''' || 5-9 || 10% || 9-12 || 0 || -2 || 1+1 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty Grants HEAT Ammo perk. .33 DR reduction || Sniper || 35 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 250 || 15 || 5 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Pulse Sniper Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Sniper Rifle''' || 6-10 || 35% || 10-14 || 0 || -1 || 3+1 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty || Sniper || 65 || Advanced Pulse Lasers || 250 || 25|| 20 || 0|| 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Plasma Sniper Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Sniper Rifle''' || 7-11 || 25% || 11-16 || 0 || -1 || 3+1 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty || Sniper || 105 || Precision Plasma Weapons || 500 || 45 || 30 || 2 || 18
|-
|}

==='''Marksman Rifle'''===
Marksman rifles are smaller versions of sniper rifles that can also only be used by the Sniper and Scout classes. They have longer range than most weapons, but considerably shorter than sniper rifles nonetheless can be fired after moving. Like sniper rifles, marksman rifles have hefty accuracy penalties when used at short range. Marksman rifles have the same base damage as sniper rifles, but considerably lower crit chance. Marksman rifles can fire reaction shots up to their maximum range, and with Precision Shot they have unlimited range. 
Marksman Rifles are better suited to close-quarters maps where mobility is essential. 
{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | Marksman Rifles
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Marksman Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Marksman Rifle''' || 4-6 || 15% || 6-9 || 0 || 0 || 5+1 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty || Scout, Sniper || 0 ||None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Laser Strike Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Strike Rifle''' || 4-8 || 15% || 8-11 || +7 || 0 || 3+1 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty || Scout, Sniper || 18 || Advanced Beam Lasers || 50 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image: Alloy Strike Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Alloy Strike Rifle''' || 5-9 || 15% || 9-12 || 0 || 0 || 4+1 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty .33 DR reduction || Scout, Sniper || 35 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 120 || 15 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Blaster Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Blaster Rifle''' || 6-10 || 25% || 10-14 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty || Scout, Sniper || 67 || Advanced Pulse Lasers || 220 || 25 || 20 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Reflex Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Reflex Rifle''' || 7-11 || 15% || 11-16 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty || Scout, Sniper || 102 || Precision Plasma Weapons || 450 || 40 || 30 || 2 || 18
|-
|}

==='''Squad Automatic Weapon'''===
SAW-type weapons are the closest equivalent to vanilla LMGs in Long War. They can only be used by the Gunner class. SAWs have larger magazines and higher damage than assault rifles but confer a mobility penalty and can't be steadied. They allow faster movement than LMGs, but have less ammo and deal less damage. Suppressing a target with a SAW grants the Opportunist perk for any reaction fire triggered by enemy movement
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
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!colspan="18" | Squad Automatic Weapons
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: SAW Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''SAW''' || 4-6 || 0% || 6-9 || 0 || -1 || 6+2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Gunner || 0 ||None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Autolaser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Autolaser''' || 4-8 || 0% || 8-11 || +7 || -1 || 6+2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Gunner || 65 || Beam Weapons || 60 || 4 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gauss Autorifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Autorifle''' || 5-9 || 0% || 9-12 || 0 || -1 || 7+2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || Gunner || 32 || Gauss Weapons || 110 || 15 || 2 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Pulse Autoblaster Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Autoblaster''' || 6-10 || 10% || 10-14 || 0 || -1 || 6+2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Gunner || 65 || Pulse Lasers || 230 || 30 || 20 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Plasma Novagun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Novagun''' || 7-11 || 0% || 11-16 || 0 || -1 || 6+2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Gunner || 98 || Advanced Plasma Weapons || 500 || 45 || 30 || 2 || 20
|-
|}

==='''Light Machine Gun'''===
LMG-type weapons are larger versions of SAWs and are also only usable by the Gunner class. LMGs carry a mobility penalty and can only fire if the user has not moved, but in return they have even larger magazines and even higher damage than SAWs. LMGs also have a slightly longer range than most weapons and confer the Squadsight perk on the user so they can make use of the extra range. When an LMG is used to suppress, the reaction shot taken if the target moves suffers no aim penalty and can crit. LMGs can only overwatch fire up to visual range. 
LMGs are ideal for heavy defensive situations where the Gunner can situate themselves securely and guard a given area using normal and reaction fire.
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
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!colspan="18" | Light Machine Guns
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: LMG Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''LMG''' || 4-8 || 5% || 8-11 || 0 || -2 || 8+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight || Gunner || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gatling Laser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gatling Laser''' || 5-9 || 5% || 9-12 || +7 || -2 || 8+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight || Gunner || 18 || Beam weapons || 60 || 5 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gauss Machine Gun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Machine Gun''' || 6-10 || 5% || 10-14 || 0 || -2 || 9+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight .33 DR reduction || Gunner || 40 || Gauss Weapons || 140 || 16 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gatling Pulser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gatling Pulser''' || 7-11 || 15% || 11-16 || 0 || -2 || 8+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight || Gunner || 64 || Pulse Lasers || 215 || 35 || 22 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Plasma Dragon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Dragon''' || 7-13 || 5% || 13-18 || 0 || -2 || 8+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight || Gunner || 105 || Heavy Plasma Weapons || 500 || 48 || 32 || 2 || 20
|-
|}

==='''Rocket Launchers'''===
Sometimes you just have to make a good first-time impression. Sometimes you just happen to not have the right key for a door. Sometimes you just want to give those aliens a running start on their way back - do not fret, Xcom have some portable rocket launchers for you! 

Rockets are fairly simple to use - pick youр ability, aim and fire. There is always some guaranteed scatter which is limited by the soldier's Aim and Abilities. While mostly used by Rocketeers, Engineers also have the ability at later stages of the game to carry a rocket launcher. Carrying one forfeits your sidearm. For more information regarding rockets read bellow.
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
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!colspan="18" | Rocket Launchers
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Rocket Launcher Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Rocket Launcher''' || 4-10 || 0% || - || 0 || -1 || 1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Rocketeer|| 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Recoilless Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Recoilless Rifle''' || 6-12 || 0% || - || 0 || -1 || 1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || .33 DR reduction|| Rocketeer|| 35 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 100 || 25 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Blaster Launcher Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Blaster Launcher''' || 8-16 || 0% || - || 0 || -2 || 1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Rocketeer|| 110 || Fusion Weapons || 600 || 60 || 65 || 2 || 20
|-
|}

==='''MEC Primary Weapons'''===
MEC weapons (unsurprisingly) can only be used by MECs. They are high damage and have extended range equal to marksman rifles and LMGs, but do not confer the squadsight perk, so only MEC classes that have squadsight can use the extra range. Even MECs with squadsight can only overwatch fire up to visual range.
{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | MEC Primary Weapons
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Minigun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Minigun''' || 5-9 || 10% || 9-12 || 0 || 0 || 2+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || - || MEC || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Laser Lance Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Lance''' || 7-11 || 10% || 11-16 || +7 || 0 || 3+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || - || MEC || 20 || Advanced Beam Lasers || 80 || 5 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Railgun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Railgun''' || 7-13 || 10% || 13-18 || 0 || 0 || 4+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || .33 DR reduction, no suppression || MEC || 35 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 120 || 25 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Pulse Lance Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Lance''' || 7-13 || 20% || 13-18 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || - || MEC || 65 || Advanced Pulse Lasers || 240 || 35 || 24 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Particle Cannon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Particle Cannon''' || 8-14 || 10% || 14-19 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || No suppression || MEC || 105 || Heavy Plasma Weapons || 450 || 45 || 40 || 10 || 14
|-
|}

==='''MEC Seconday Weapons'''===

With each upgrade of the MEC suit the number of utility items decreases while the number of secondary weapon systems increases. As such, they can play a vital role in area control, squad support or neutralizing targets. Be advised that unlike vanilla in Long War you have to build the systems yourself and they do cost a lot of meld.

{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | MEC Secondary Weapons
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Flamethrower Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Flamethrower''' || 4-10 || 0% || 8-11 || - || -1 || 2 || Cone || {{No Icon}} || Incendiary area attack causing panic || MEC || 20 || MEC Warfare Systems || 85 || 0 || 0 || 5 || 7
|-align=center
|[[Image: Kinetic Strike Module Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Kinetic Strike Module''' || 9-15 || 0% || 15-21 || - || -1 || ∞ || Melee || {{No Icon}} || Close combat weapon || MEC || 22 || Floater Autopsy || 200 || 15 || 2 || 8 || 10
|-align=center
|[[Image: Grenade Launcher Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Grenade Launcher''' || 3-7 || 0% || - || - || -1 || 2 || 17 || {{No Icon}} || Indirect-fire Grenade Launcher || MEC || 35 || Gauss Weapons || 150 || 12 || 0 || 6 || 10
|-align=center
|[[Image: Proximity Mine Launcher Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Prox. Mine Launcher''' || 6-12 || 0% || - || - || -1 || 3 || 17 || {{No Icon}} || Fires Proximity Mines || MEC || 40 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 150 || 12 || 0 || 10 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Restorative Mist Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Restorative Mist''' || - || 0% || - || - || -1 || 1 || 17 || {{No Icon}} || Heals allies in an area || MEC || 28 || Thin Man Autopsy || 120 || 0 || 0 || 10 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Electro Pulse Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Electro Pulse''' || 3-9 || 0% || - || - || -1 || ∞ || 17 || {{No Icon}} || Stuns robots. 3 turn cooldown || MEC || 85 || EMP Weapons || 180 || 15 || 15 || 15 || 14
|-
|}

==='''SHIV Turrets'''===
Similar to the SAW but considerably more powerful, these heavy and expensive guns are the only weapons that the SHIV can use. While they suffer from the low base aim of all SHIV units, they can shred through enemies at close range, restrict enemy movement options when in overwatch mode thanks to certain equipment, and can deal massive damage to mechanized forces when equipped with HEAT ammo.
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
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!colspan="18" | SHIV Turrets
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Autocannon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Autocannon''' || 5-9 || 10% || 9-12 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || SHIV || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Superheavy Laser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Superheavy Laser''' || 6-10 || 10% || 10-14 || +7 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || SHIV || 20 || Advanced Beam Lasers || 80|| 5 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Sentry Gun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Sentry Gun''' || 7-11 || 10% || 11-16 || 0 || 0 || 4+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || SHIV || 35 || Gauss Weapons || 120|| 15 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Superheavy Pulser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Superheavy Pulser''' || 7-13 || 20% || 13-18 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || SHIV || 65 || Pulse Lasers || 300|| 35 || 25 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Superheavy Plasma Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Superheavy Plasma''' || 8-14 || 10% || 14-19 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || SHIV || 100 || Vehicular Plasma Weapons|| 500|| 45 || 40 ||3 || 21
|-
|}

== Steadying ==
Many weapons have an extra action available: Steady Weapon. This is a standard action, which will end the turn when used, which grants +20 aim for the next shot. The bonus is discarded if the soldier moves or switches weapon. This essentially allows a soldier to fire a carefully aimed shot over two turns. The use of perks such as '''Light 'Em Up''' and '''Double Tap''' only apply the bonus to the first shot taken. Note that sniper rifles can be steadied after moving, even if the operator cannot fire them. Steady Weapon's Aim bonus also applies to fired rockets, reducing rocket scatter.

== Explosives ==
In Long War explosives no longer do fixed damage to all targets in their radius. The further a target is from the center of the blast, the less damage it will take. This also applies to cover and cover in general is a little tougher than in vanilla.

== Rockets ==
Long War uses a revamped system for rocket accuracy. Aim is used when firing rockets to determine the chance of them landing on target, rather than the fixed 90% chance in vanilla. Rather than the vanilla behavior of a missed rocket veering wildly off course, Long War rockets never "miss" but will veer off course a random amount based on the soldier's Aim, with higher Aim giving less scatter. Lower range means less scatter, and the soldier achieving 120 Aim yields no scatter at any range. Rockets can also be fired after moving, but with increased scatter and reduced range. Rockets can not change height through scatter.

The hit chance shown while aiming is not a literal % hit chance, nor is it the maximum scatter distance. "Scatter" instead indicates the standard deviation on the X and Y axis. You can expect 68% of your rockets to hit within the standard deviation, 95% to hit within 2 times the standard deviation, and 99.7% to hit within 3 times the standard deviation. Rockets can exceed even this degree of deviation, but the chance is negligible.

Unblocked (no "Shot is Blocked" warning) rockets that veer off course will travel through most destructible terrain to their destination, destroying it in the process. If they encounter an allied or enemy pawn, they will detonate immediately.

[[Category: Long War]]

Weapons (Long War)

2014-11-08T02:00:05Z

Boris: /* Machine Pistols */ Removed "+1" from all ammo counts. Since SAWs are the only exception, I'm just adding note "+1 ammo (+2 for SAWs)" to Hi Cap Mags.

{{CheckOutdated (Long War)|b14}}
Long War makes several changes to weapons:
* There are five tiers of weapons: Conventional/Ballistic, Beam Laser, Gauss, Pulse Laser, Plasma.
* There are several additional types of primary and secondary weapon available in each tier.
* Many weapons can be Steadied as an action to improve aim for the next turn.
* Explosives no longer do fixed damage, and their damage reduces the further a target is from the center of the blast.
* Rocket launchers use a revamped accuracy system using the soldier's aim.
==Weapon tiers==
===Conventional/Ballistic===
These are the basic weapons you start with - and whilst they're okay to begin with, they're not going to be up to scratch in the long run. The sawed-off shotgun is unique to this tier. Ballistic weapons use the same models as EXALT ballistic weapons in vanilla.

===Beam Lasers===
Early beam lasers form the second tier of weapons, and all carry a small inherent accuracy bonus, which can make them good 'training' weapons for inexperienced troopers or as aiming aid for rocketeers in their aiming of explosives (much like you might otherwise issue them regular carbines). They also have a little more firepower than Ballistic weapons, but it still won't be enough in the long run. Although skipping laser weaponry in vanilla is a viable and at times easy-to-pull-off gambit, in long war expense of gauss weapons combined with the tighter economy makes this less appealing, and the aim bonus beam lasers confer makes them arguably better early game than gauss anyway. Beam Lasers use the same visuals as EXALT laser weapons in vanilla.

===Gauss===
Gauss weapons return to ballistic projectiles but elerium power sources make man-portable magnetic accelerators practical; combined with alloy-based projectiles, it's a recipe for pretty formidable personal weaponry. In general Gauss weapons have a larger clip size, which can make this tier of weapons preferable for soldiers that has ammo-intensive perks or abilities such as flush ,suppression, collateral damage, in the zone, close combat specialist, close encounters, light 'em up, and rapid fire. Uniquely, the sniper rifle of this tier--the Gauss long rifle--grants snipers the HEAT ammo perk, whom otherwise can't obtain said perk normally. This makes Gauss snipers a powerful counter to mechanical leaders/bosses whom can have over 50 health and a staggering amount of damage reduction; though in return, the Gauss long rifle has a rather inconvenient clip size of 1. Gauss weapons use the original XCOM weapon models.

Note: There are plans to give this tier of weaponry additional damage reduction penetration in '''future editions''' of the mod. (b14)

===Pulse Lasers===
Refining and enhancing laser technology allows for the development of pulse laser weaponry, another step up in terms of firepower. Pulse laser weapons have a bonus to their critical hit chance, which might make them more preferable to laser weapons in the hands of crit-focused assaults and snipers. They use the same visuals as XCOM-built laser weaponry.
===Plasma===
Plasma tier weapons are the most powerful in terms of raw damage, but also expensive and hard to obtain; building them requires captured alien weapons as production components... which means you'll have to stun and capture aliens for every weapon you want to build.
== Weapon types==
Long War adds many new types of primary and secondary weapon. Most of these weapon types have a corresponding weapon at each technology level. The primary weapon types are, in descending order of average damage: '''SHIV/MEC Primary Weapons''' > '''Light Machine Guns''' and '''Shotguns''' > '''Heavy Rifles''', '''Marksman/Sniper rifles''' and '''Squad Automatic Weapon''' > '''Assault Rifles''' > '''Carbines''' and '''Submachine Guns'''. In general, the more powerful a weapon is the more unwieldy it is as well, and that will reflect in aim and mobility penalties/bonuses. The MEC version of heavy machine guns have a unusually large deviation of +/-4. And finally Shotguns' damage is severely impeded by damage reduction.

=== '''Pistols''' ===
The default sidearm, very similar to vanilla pistols, except that they do not have unlimited ammo. Pistols have shorter effective range than assault rifles unless the soldier possesses the Gunslinger perk.
{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | Pistols
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:Pistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pistol''' || 1-3 || 0% || 3-4 || 0 || 0 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} ||Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 0 ||None ||colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Laser Pistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]] '''Laser Pistol''' || 2-4 || 0% || 4-5 || +7 || 0 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}}|| Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer|| 15|| Beam weapons || 30 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 10
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Pistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]] '''Plasma Pistol''' || 3-5 || 0% || 5-7 || 0 || 0 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}}|| Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 90|| Compact Plasma Weapons || 175 || 25 || 20 || 1 || 12
|-
|}

==='''Machine Pistols'''===
A more damaging sidearm, but at the cost of added weight and decreased aim when drawn. Machine Pistols also tend to have very limited ammo. Useful for a Gunslinger soldier to finish off targets.
{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | Machine Pistols
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:Machine pistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Machine Pistol''' || 2-4 || 0% || 4-5 || -10 || -1 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 0|| None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Heater Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heater''' || 3-5 || 0% || 5-7 || -3 || -1 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 15|| Beam weapons || 30 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Gauss Autopistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Autopistol''' || 3-5 || 0% || 5-7 || -10 || -1 || 3 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 28 || Gauss Weapons || 40 || 4 || 1 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Blaster Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Blaster''' || 4-6 || 10% || 6-9 || -10 || -1 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 60 || Pulse Lasers || 80 || 12 || 8 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Mauler Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Mauler''' || 4-8 || 0% || 8-11 || -10 || -2 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 90 || Compact Plasma Weapons || 230|| 30 || 20 || 1 || 12
|-
|}

==='''SMG'''===
SMGs confer +3 mobility bonus and have the lowest damage and crit chance of all the primary weapons. Unlike Carbines, SMGs do not grant bonus accuracy. They're very useful for classes that need to reposition quickly to bring explosives and other area weapons against enemies, making them a good choice for Rocketeers and Engineers. Scouts, who might use the added mobility usually require something that packs a punch, like a Shotgun or any Rifle.
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
|+
|-
!colspan="18" | SMGs
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:SMG Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Submachine Gun''' || 2-4 || 0% || 4-5 || 0 || +3 || 2+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 0|| None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Laser Shatterray Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Shatterray''' || 3-5 || 0% || 5-7 || +7 || +3 || 2+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 15 || Beam Weapons || 35 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Gauss Stuttergun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Stuttergun''' || 4-6 || 0% || 6-9 || 0 || +3 || 3+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || All || 28 || Gauss Weapons || 75 || 6 || 1 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Pulse Stengun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Stengun''' || 4-8 || 10% || 8-11 || 0 || +3 || 2+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 62 || Pulse Lasers || 120 || 15 || 10 || 0 ||12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Stormgun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Stormgun''' || 5-9 || 0% || 9-12 || 0 || +3 || 2+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 90 || Plasma Weapons || 200 || 30 || 20 || 1 || 12
|-
|}

==='''Carbines'''===
Carbines are light versions of assault rifles. They have reduced damage and crit chance, but confer +1 mobility and an accuracy bonus. They are ideal for inexperienced troops and those that need to move quickly, but experienced troops should switch to other weapons quickly as tougher aliens begin to appear.
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
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|-
!colspan="18" | Carbines
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:Assault Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Assault Carbine''' || 2-4 || 5% || 4-5 || +7 || +1 || 3+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Laser Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Carbine''' || 3-5 || 5% || 5-7 || +15 || +1 || 3+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 15 || Beam weapons || 40 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Gauss Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Carbine''' || 4-6 || 5% || 6-9 || +7 || +1 || 4+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || All || 30 || Gauss Weapons || 95 || 8 || 2 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Pulse Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Carbine''' || 4-8 || 15% || 8-11 || +7 || +1 || 3+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 63 || Pulse Lasers || 180 || 15 || 15 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Carbine''' || 5-9 || 5% || 9-12 || +7 || +1 || 3+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 90 || Plasma Weapons || 280 || 30 || 25 || 1 || 12
|-
|}

==='''Assault Rifles'''===
These are the baseline assault rifles, similar to their vanilla counterparts. They have a respectable balance of firepower and accuracy. 
The Arc Rifle is a special Rifle that grants Disabling Shot with the regular 2-turn cooldown, although it does not confer the snap shot perk. It has low damage and ammo capacity. Useful early on for raiding small UFO's with capable soldiers and plenty of arc thrower uses.

{| class="wikitable"
|+
|-
!colspan="18" | Assault Rifles
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:Assault Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Assault Rifle''' || 3-5 || 10% || 5-7 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Laser Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Rifle''' || 4-6 || 10% || 6-9 || +7 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 15 || Beam weapons || 50 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Gauss Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Rifle''' || 4-8 || 10% || 8-11 || 0 || 0 || 4+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || All || 30 || Gauss Weapons || 100 || 12 || 2 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image:Pulse Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Rifle''' || 5-9 || 20% || 9-12 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 60 || Pulse Lasers || 200 || 20 || 15 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Rifle''' || 6-10 || 10% || 10-14 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer|| 95 || Advanced Plasma Weapons || 380 || 40 || 30 || 2 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Arc Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Arc Rifle''' || 1-3 || 0% || 3-4 || 0 || 0 || 2+1 || 200 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Grants Disabling Shot, Cannot fire after any costly action || All except Gunners and Rocketeers || 25 || Xenoneurology New Combat Systems || 60 || 2 || 2 || 0 || 10
|-
|}

==='''Battle Rifle'''===
Battle Rifles are heavier versions of assault rifles. They do increased damage and have one additional burst relative to assault rifles, but carry a mobility penalty and a hefty aim penalty. They are best used by experienced soldiers who can aim well enough to offset the penalty (Infantry in particular, thanks to their high aim progression and ability to fire multiple times per turn cycle).
{| class="wikitable"
|+
|-
! colspan="18" | Battle Rifles
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:Battle Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Battle Rifle''' || 4-6 || 10% || 6-9 || -15 || -1 || 4+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Heavy Laser Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heavy Laser Rifle''' || 4-8|| 15% || 8-11 || -8 || -1 || 4+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 20 || Advanced Beam Lasers || 70 || 4 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Heavy Gauss Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heavy Gauss Rifle''' || 5-9 || 15% || 9-12 || -15 || -1 || 5+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 40 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 140 || 15 || 5 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image:Heavy Pulse Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heavy Pulse Rifle''' || 6-10 || 25% || 10-14 || -15 || -1 || 4+1|| 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 67 || Advanced Pulse Lasers || 220 || 25 || 20 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Heavy Plasma Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heavy Plasma Rifle''' || 7-11 || 15% || 11-16 || -15 || -1 || 4+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 105 || Heavy Plasma Weapons || 400 || 40 || 28 || 2 || 18
|-
|}

==='''Shotgun'''===
Long War shotgun-type weapons are similar to their vanilla counterparts. High damage, high crit chance, short range. Shotguns are extremely accurate up close, but suffer from very poor accuracy over longer ranges (even with Cinematic Mode enabled). As such, they work best with highly mobile classes or those that only ever expect to engage enemies up close, like Assault and Scout soldiers. 

The sawed-off shotgun, a point-blank range, high damage sidearm with -1 mobility. It has only one shot, and this cannot be increased by ammo capacity upgrades.
{| class="wikitable"
|+
|-
!colspan="18" | Shotguns
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Shotgun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Shotgun''' || 4-8 || 20% || 8-11 || 0 || 0 || 5+1 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage Reduction]] penalty || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Sawed-off Shotgun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Sawed-Off Shotgun''' || 4-8 || 5% || 8-11 || -15 || -1 || 1 || 3 || {{No Icon}} || Sidearm. Confers -1 mobility. Can only be used at point blank range. || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 1 || None || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 1
|-align=center
|[[Image: Scatter Laser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Scatter Laser''' || 5-9 || 20% || 9-12 || +7 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage reduction]] penalty
| Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 18 || Advanced Beam Weapons || 80 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Alloy Cannon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Alloy Cannon''' || 6-10 || 20% || 10-14 || 0 || 0 || 4+1 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage reduction]] penalty .33 DR reduction
| Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 32 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 150 || 18 || 5 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Scatter Blaster Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Scatter Blaster''' || 7-11 || 30% || 11-16 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage reduction]] penalty
| Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 62 || Advanced Pulse Weapons || 250 || 20 || 20 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Reflex Cannon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Reflex Cannon''' || 7-13 || 20% || 13-18 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage reduction]] penalty
| Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 102 || Sectopod Autopsy || 500 || 40 || 30 || 2 || 18
|-
|}

==='''Sniper Rifle'''===
Sniper Rifles are mostly identical to their vanilla counterparts and can only be used by Snipers. They have very long range (double the range of vanilla, making it functionally infinite), but can only be fired if the user has not taken a costly, including reloading, unless they have Snap Shot training. Long War sniper rifles have higher penalties when used at short range than vanilla sniper rifles. Sniper rifles can only overwatch fire up to visual range, so consider steadying the weapon instead to end a turn without targets (especially if you don't have snapshot training).
{| class="wikitable"
|+
|-
!colspan="18" | Sniper Rifles
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Sniper Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Sniper Rifle''' || 4-6 || 25% || 6-9 || 0 || -1 || 5+1 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty || Sniper || 0 ||None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Laser Sniper Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Sniper Rifle''' || 4-8 || 25% || 8-11 || +7 || -1 || 3+1 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty || Sniper || 18 || Advanced Beam Weapons || 50 || 4 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gauss Long Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Long Rifle''' || 5-9 || 10% || 9-12 || 0 || -2 || 1+1 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty Grants HEAT Ammo perk. .33 DR reduction || Sniper || 35 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 250 || 15 || 5 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Pulse Sniper Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Sniper Rifle''' || 6-10 || 35% || 10-14 || 0 || -1 || 3+1 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty || Sniper || 65 || Advanced Pulse Lasers || 250 || 25|| 20 || 0|| 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Plasma Sniper Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Sniper Rifle''' || 7-11 || 25% || 11-16 || 0 || -1 || 3+1 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty || Sniper || 105 || Precision Plasma Weapons || 500 || 45 || 30 || 2 || 18
|-
|}

==='''Marksman Rifle'''===
Marksman rifles are smaller versions of sniper rifles that can also only be used by the Sniper and Scout classes. They have longer range than most weapons, but considerably shorter than sniper rifles nonetheless can be fired after moving. Like sniper rifles, marksman rifles have hefty accuracy penalties when used at short range. Marksman rifles have the same base damage as sniper rifles, but considerably lower crit chance. Marksman rifles can fire reaction shots up to their maximum range, and with Precision Shot they have unlimited range. 
Marksman Rifles are better suited to close-quarters maps where mobility is essential. 
{| class="wikitable"
|+
|-
!colspan="18" | Marksman Rifles
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Marksman Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Marksman Rifle''' || 4-6 || 15% || 6-9 || 0 || 0 || 5+1 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty || Scout, Sniper || 0 ||None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Laser Strike Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Strike Rifle''' || 4-8 || 15% || 8-11 || +7 || 0 || 3+1 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty || Scout, Sniper || 18 || Advanced Beam Lasers || 50 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image: Alloy Strike Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Alloy Strike Rifle''' || 5-9 || 15% || 9-12 || 0 || 0 || 4+1 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty .33 DR reduction || Scout, Sniper || 35 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 120 || 15 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Blaster Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Blaster Rifle''' || 6-10 || 25% || 10-14 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty || Scout, Sniper || 67 || Advanced Pulse Lasers || 220 || 25 || 20 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Reflex Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Reflex Rifle''' || 7-11 || 15% || 11-16 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty || Scout, Sniper || 102 || Precision Plasma Weapons || 450 || 40 || 30 || 2 || 18
|-
|}

==='''Squad Automatic Weapon'''===
SAW-type weapons are the closest equivalent to vanilla LMGs in Long War. They can only be used by the Gunner class. SAWs have larger magazines and higher damage than assault rifles but confer a mobility penalty and can't be steadied. They allow faster movement than LMGs, but have less ammo and deal less damage. Suppressing a target with a SAW grants the Opportunist perk for any reaction fire triggered by enemy movement
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
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!colspan="18" | Squad Automatic Weapons
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: SAW Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''SAW''' || 4-6 || 0% || 6-9 || 0 || -1 || 6+2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Gunner || 0 ||None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Autolaser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Autolaser''' || 4-8 || 0% || 8-11 || +7 || -1 || 6+2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Gunner || 65 || Beam Weapons || 60 || 4 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gauss Autorifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Autorifle''' || 5-9 || 0% || 9-12 || 0 || -1 || 7+2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || Gunner || 32 || Gauss Weapons || 110 || 15 || 2 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Pulse Autoblaster Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Autoblaster''' || 6-10 || 10% || 10-14 || 0 || -1 || 6+2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Gunner || 65 || Pulse Lasers || 230 || 30 || 20 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Plasma Novagun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Novagun''' || 7-11 || 0% || 11-16 || 0 || -1 || 6+2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Gunner || 98 || Advanced Plasma Weapons || 500 || 45 || 30 || 2 || 20
|-
|}

==='''Light Machine Gun'''===
LMG-type weapons are larger versions of SAWs and are also only usable by the Gunner class. LMGs carry a mobility penalty and can only fire if the user has not moved, but in return they have even larger magazines and even higher damage than SAWs. LMGs also have a slightly longer range than most weapons and confer the Squadsight perk on the user so they can make use of the extra range. When an LMG is used to suppress, the reaction shot taken if the target moves suffers no aim penalty and can crit. LMGs can only overwatch fire up to visual range. 
LMGs are ideal for heavy defensive situations where the Gunner can situate themselves securely and guard a given area using normal and reaction fire.
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
|+
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!colspan="18" | Light Machine Guns
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: LMG Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''LMG''' || 4-8 || 5% || 8-11 || 0 || -2 || 8+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight || Gunner || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gatling Laser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gatling Laser''' || 5-9 || 5% || 9-12 || +7 || -2 || 8+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight || Gunner || 18 || Beam weapons || 60 || 5 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gauss Machine Gun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Machine Gun''' || 6-10 || 5% || 10-14 || 0 || -2 || 9+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight .33 DR reduction || Gunner || 40 || Gauss Weapons || 140 || 16 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gatling Pulser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gatling Pulser''' || 7-11 || 15% || 11-16 || 0 || -2 || 8+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight || Gunner || 64 || Pulse Lasers || 215 || 35 || 22 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Plasma Dragon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Dragon''' || 7-13 || 5% || 13-18 || 0 || -2 || 8+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight || Gunner || 105 || Heavy Plasma Weapons || 500 || 48 || 32 || 2 || 20
|-
|}

==='''Rocket Launchers'''===
Sometimes you just have to make a good first-time impression. Sometimes you just happen to not have the right key for a door. Sometimes you just want to give those aliens a running start on their way back - do not fret, Xcom have some portable rocket launchers for you! 

Rockets are fairly simple to use - pick youр ability, aim and fire. There is always some guaranteed scatter which is limited by the soldier's Aim and Abilities. While mostly used by Rocketeers, Engineers also have the ability at later stages of the game to carry a rocket launcher. Carrying one forfeits your sidearm. For more information regarding rockets read bellow.
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
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!colspan="18" | Rocket Launchers
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Rocket Launcher Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Rocket Launcher''' || 4-10 || 0% || - || 0 || -1 || 1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Rocketeer|| 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Recoilless Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Recoilless Rifle''' || 6-12 || 0% || - || 0 || -1 || 1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || .33 DR reduction|| Rocketeer|| 35 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 100 || 25 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Blaster Launcher Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Blaster Launcher''' || 8-16 || 0% || - || 0 || -2 || 1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Rocketeer|| 110 || Fusion Weapons || 600 || 60 || 65 || 2 || 20
|-
|}

==='''MEC Primary Weapons'''===
MEC weapons (unsurprisingly) can only be used by MECs. They are high damage and have extended range equal to marksman rifles and LMGs, but do not confer the squadsight perk, so only MEC classes that have squadsight can use the extra range. Even MECs with squadsight can only overwatch fire up to visual range.
{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | MEC Primary Weapons
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Minigun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Minigun''' || 5-9 || 10% || 9-12 || 0 || 0 || 2+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || - || MEC || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Laser Lance Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Lance''' || 7-11 || 10% || 11-16 || +7 || 0 || 3+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || - || MEC || 20 || Advanced Beam Lasers || 80 || 5 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Railgun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Railgun''' || 7-13 || 10% || 13-18 || 0 || 0 || 4+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || .33 DR reduction, no suppression || MEC || 35 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 120 || 25 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Pulse Lance Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Lance''' || 7-13 || 20% || 13-18 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || - || MEC || 65 || Advanced Pulse Lasers || 240 || 35 || 24 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Particle Cannon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Particle Cannon''' || 8-14 || 10% || 14-19 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || No suppression || MEC || 105 || Heavy Plasma Weapons || 450 || 45 || 40 || 10 || 14
|-
|}

==='''MEC Seconday Weapons'''===

With each upgrade of the MEC suit the number of utility items decreases while the number of secondary weapon systems increases. As such, they can play a vital role in area control, squad support or neutralizing targets. Be advised that unlike vanilla in Long War you have to build the systems yourself and they do cost a lot of meld.

{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | MEC Secondary Weapons
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Flamethrower Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Flamethrower''' || 4-10 || 0% || 8-11 || - || -1 || 2 || Cone || {{No Icon}} || Incendiary area attack causing panic || MEC || 20 || MEC Warfare Systems || 85 || 0 || 0 || 5 || 7
|-align=center
|[[Image: Kinetic Strike Module Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Kinetic Strike Module''' || 9-15 || 0% || 15-21 || - || -1 || ∞ || Melee || {{No Icon}} || Close combat weapon || MEC || 22 || Floater Autopsy || 200 || 15 || 2 || 8 || 10
|-align=center
|[[Image: Grenade Launcher Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Grenade Launcher''' || 3-7 || 0% || - || - || -1 || 2 || 17 || {{No Icon}} || Indirect-fire Grenade Launcher || MEC || 35 || Gauss Weapons || 150 || 12 || 0 || 6 || 10
|-align=center
|[[Image: Proximity Mine Launcher Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Prox. Mine Launcher''' || 6-12 || 0% || - || - || -1 || 3 || 17 || {{No Icon}} || Fires Proximity Mines || MEC || 40 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 150 || 12 || 0 || 10 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Restorative Mist Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Restorative Mist''' || - || 0% || - || - || -1 || 1 || 17 || {{No Icon}} || Heals allies in an area || MEC || 28 || Thin Man Autopsy || 120 || 0 || 0 || 10 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Electro Pulse Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Electro Pulse''' || 3-9 || 0% || - || - || -1 || ∞ || 17 || {{No Icon}} || Stuns robots. 3 turn cooldown || MEC || 85 || EMP Weapons || 180 || 15 || 15 || 15 || 14
|-
|}

==='''SHIV Turrets'''===
Similar to the SAW but considerably more powerful, these heavy and expensive guns are the only weapons that the SHIV can use. While they suffer from the low base aim of all SHIV units, they can shred through enemies at close range, restrict enemy movement options when in overwatch mode thanks to certain equipment, and can deal massive damage to mechanized forces when equipped with HEAT ammo.
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
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!colspan="18" | SHIV Turrets
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Autocannon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Autocannon''' || 5-9 || 10% || 9-12 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || SHIV || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Superheavy Laser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Superheavy Laser''' || 6-10 || 10% || 10-14 || +7 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || SHIV || 20 || Advanced Beam Lasers || 80|| 5 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Sentry Gun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Sentry Gun''' || 7-11 || 10% || 11-16 || 0 || 0 || 4+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || SHIV || 35 || Gauss Weapons || 120|| 15 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Superheavy Pulser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Superheavy Pulser''' || 7-13 || 20% || 13-18 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || SHIV || 65 || Pulse Lasers || 300|| 35 || 25 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Superheavy Plasma Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Superheavy Plasma''' || 8-14 || 10% || 14-19 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || SHIV || 100 || Vehicular Plasma Weapons|| 500|| 45 || 40 ||3 || 21
|-
|}

== Steadying ==
Many weapons have an extra action available: Steady Weapon. This is a standard action, which will end the turn when used, which grants +20 aim for the next shot. The bonus is discarded if the soldier moves or switches weapon. This essentially allows a soldier to fire a carefully aimed shot over two turns. The use of perks such as '''Light 'Em Up''' and '''Double Tap''' only apply the bonus to the first shot taken. Note that sniper rifles can be steadied after moving, even if the operator cannot fire them. Steady Weapon's Aim bonus also applies to fired rockets, reducing rocket scatter.

== Explosives ==
In Long War explosives no longer do fixed damage to all targets in their radius. The further a target is from the center of the blast, the less damage it will take. This also applies to cover and cover in general is a little tougher than in vanilla.

== Rockets ==
Long War uses a revamped system for rocket accuracy. Aim is used when firing rockets to determine the chance of them landing on target, rather than the fixed 90% chance in vanilla. Rather than the vanilla behavior of a missed rocket veering wildly off course, Long War rockets never "miss" but will veer off course a random amount based on the soldier's Aim, with higher Aim giving less scatter. Lower range means less scatter, and the soldier achieving 120 Aim yields no scatter at any range. Rockets can also be fired after moving, but with increased scatter and reduced range. Rockets can not change height through scatter.

The hit chance shown while aiming is not a literal % hit chance, nor is it the maximum scatter distance. "Scatter" instead indicates the standard deviation on the X and Y axis. You can expect 68% of your rockets to hit within the standard deviation, 95% to hit within 2 times the standard deviation, and 99.7% to hit within 3 times the standard deviation. Rockets can exceed even this degree of deviation, but the chance is negligible.

Unblocked (no "Shot is Blocked" warning) rockets that veer off course will travel through most destructible terrain to their destination, destroying it in the process. If they encounter an allied or enemy pawn, they will detonate immediately.

[[Category: Long War]]

Weapons (Long War)

2014-11-08T01:59:06Z

Boris: /* Pistols */ Removed "+1" from all ammo counts. Since SAWs are the only exception, I'm just adding note "+1 ammo (+2 for SAWs)" to Hi Cap Mags.

{{CheckOutdated (Long War)|b14}}
Long War makes several changes to weapons:
* There are five tiers of weapons: Conventional/Ballistic, Beam Laser, Gauss, Pulse Laser, Plasma.
* There are several additional types of primary and secondary weapon available in each tier.
* Many weapons can be Steadied as an action to improve aim for the next turn.
* Explosives no longer do fixed damage, and their damage reduces the further a target is from the center of the blast.
* Rocket launchers use a revamped accuracy system using the soldier's aim.
==Weapon tiers==
===Conventional/Ballistic===
These are the basic weapons you start with - and whilst they're okay to begin with, they're not going to be up to scratch in the long run. The sawed-off shotgun is unique to this tier. Ballistic weapons use the same models as EXALT ballistic weapons in vanilla.

===Beam Lasers===
Early beam lasers form the second tier of weapons, and all carry a small inherent accuracy bonus, which can make them good 'training' weapons for inexperienced troopers or as aiming aid for rocketeers in their aiming of explosives (much like you might otherwise issue them regular carbines). They also have a little more firepower than Ballistic weapons, but it still won't be enough in the long run. Although skipping laser weaponry in vanilla is a viable and at times easy-to-pull-off gambit, in long war expense of gauss weapons combined with the tighter economy makes this less appealing, and the aim bonus beam lasers confer makes them arguably better early game than gauss anyway. Beam Lasers use the same visuals as EXALT laser weapons in vanilla.

===Gauss===
Gauss weapons return to ballistic projectiles but elerium power sources make man-portable magnetic accelerators practical; combined with alloy-based projectiles, it's a recipe for pretty formidable personal weaponry. In general Gauss weapons have a larger clip size, which can make this tier of weapons preferable for soldiers that has ammo-intensive perks or abilities such as flush ,suppression, collateral damage, in the zone, close combat specialist, close encounters, light 'em up, and rapid fire. Uniquely, the sniper rifle of this tier--the Gauss long rifle--grants snipers the HEAT ammo perk, whom otherwise can't obtain said perk normally. This makes Gauss snipers a powerful counter to mechanical leaders/bosses whom can have over 50 health and a staggering amount of damage reduction; though in return, the Gauss long rifle has a rather inconvenient clip size of 1. Gauss weapons use the original XCOM weapon models.

Note: There are plans to give this tier of weaponry additional damage reduction penetration in '''future editions''' of the mod. (b14)

===Pulse Lasers===
Refining and enhancing laser technology allows for the development of pulse laser weaponry, another step up in terms of firepower. Pulse laser weapons have a bonus to their critical hit chance, which might make them more preferable to laser weapons in the hands of crit-focused assaults and snipers. They use the same visuals as XCOM-built laser weaponry.
===Plasma===
Plasma tier weapons are the most powerful in terms of raw damage, but also expensive and hard to obtain; building them requires captured alien weapons as production components... which means you'll have to stun and capture aliens for every weapon you want to build.
== Weapon types==
Long War adds many new types of primary and secondary weapon. Most of these weapon types have a corresponding weapon at each technology level. The primary weapon types are, in descending order of average damage: '''SHIV/MEC Primary Weapons''' > '''Light Machine Guns''' and '''Shotguns''' > '''Heavy Rifles''', '''Marksman/Sniper rifles''' and '''Squad Automatic Weapon''' > '''Assault Rifles''' > '''Carbines''' and '''Submachine Guns'''. In general, the more powerful a weapon is the more unwieldy it is as well, and that will reflect in aim and mobility penalties/bonuses. The MEC version of heavy machine guns have a unusually large deviation of +/-4. And finally Shotguns' damage is severely impeded by damage reduction.

=== '''Pistols''' ===
The default sidearm, very similar to vanilla pistols, except that they do not have unlimited ammo. Pistols have shorter effective range than assault rifles unless the soldier possesses the Gunslinger perk.
{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | Pistols
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:Pistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pistol''' || 1-3 || 0% || 3-4 || 0 || 0 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} ||Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 0 ||None ||colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Laser Pistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]] '''Laser Pistol''' || 2-4 || 0% || 4-5 || +7 || 0 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}}|| Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer|| 15|| Beam weapons || 30 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 10
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Pistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]] '''Plasma Pistol''' || 3-5 || 0% || 5-7 || 0 || 0 || 2 || 30 || {{No Icon}}|| Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 90|| Compact Plasma Weapons || 175 || 25 || 20 || 1 || 12
|-
|}

==='''Machine Pistols'''===
A more damaging sidearm, but at the cost of added weight and decreased aim when drawn. Machine Pistols also tend to have very limited ammo. Useful for a Gunslinger soldier to finish off targets.
{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | Machine Pistols
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:Machine pistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Machine Pistol''' || 2-4 || 0% || 4-5 || -10 || -1 || 2+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 0|| None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Heater Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heater''' || 3-5 || 0% || 5-7 || -3 || -1 || 2+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 15|| Beam weapons || 30 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Gauss Autopistol Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Autopistol''' || 3-5 || 0% || 5-7 || -10 || -1 || 3+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 28 || Gauss Weapons || 40 || 4 || 1 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Blaster Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Blaster''' || 4-6 || 10% || 6-9 || -10 || -1 || 2+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 60 || Pulse Lasers || 80 || 12 || 8 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Mauler Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Mauler''' || 4-8 || 0% || 8-11 || -10 || -2 || 2+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty without Gunslinger || All except Gunner and Rocketeer || 90 || Compact Plasma Weapons || 230|| 30 || 20 || 1 || 12
|-
|}

==='''SMG'''===
SMGs confer +3 mobility bonus and have the lowest damage and crit chance of all the primary weapons. Unlike Carbines, SMGs do not grant bonus accuracy. They're very useful for classes that need to reposition quickly to bring explosives and other area weapons against enemies, making them a good choice for Rocketeers and Engineers. Scouts, who might use the added mobility usually require something that packs a punch, like a Shotgun or any Rifle.
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:SMG Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Submachine Gun''' || 2-4 || 0% || 4-5 || 0 || +3 || 2+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 0|| None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Laser Shatterray Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Shatterray''' || 3-5 || 0% || 5-7 || +7 || +3 || 2+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 15 || Beam Weapons || 35 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Gauss Stuttergun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Stuttergun''' || 4-6 || 0% || 6-9 || 0 || +3 || 3+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || All || 28 || Gauss Weapons || 75 || 6 || 1 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Pulse Stengun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Stengun''' || 4-8 || 10% || 8-11 || 0 || +3 || 2+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 62 || Pulse Lasers || 120 || 15 || 10 || 0 ||12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Stormgun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Stormgun''' || 5-9 || 0% || 9-12 || 0 || +3 || 2+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 90 || Plasma Weapons || 200 || 30 || 20 || 1 || 12
|-
|}

==='''Carbines'''===
Carbines are light versions of assault rifles. They have reduced damage and crit chance, but confer +1 mobility and an accuracy bonus. They are ideal for inexperienced troops and those that need to move quickly, but experienced troops should switch to other weapons quickly as tougher aliens begin to appear.
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:Assault Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Assault Carbine''' || 2-4 || 5% || 4-5 || +7 || +1 || 3+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Laser Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Carbine''' || 3-5 || 5% || 5-7 || +15 || +1 || 3+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 15 || Beam weapons || 40 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Gauss Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Carbine''' || 4-6 || 5% || 6-9 || +7 || +1 || 4+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || All || 30 || Gauss Weapons || 95 || 8 || 2 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Pulse Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Carbine''' || 4-8 || 15% || 8-11 || +7 || +1 || 3+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 63 || Pulse Lasers || 180 || 15 || 15 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Carbine Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Carbine''' || 5-9 || 5% || 9-12 || +7 || +1 || 3+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 90 || Plasma Weapons || 280 || 30 || 25 || 1 || 12
|-
|}

==='''Assault Rifles'''===
These are the baseline assault rifles, similar to their vanilla counterparts. They have a respectable balance of firepower and accuracy. 
The Arc Rifle is a special Rifle that grants Disabling Shot with the regular 2-turn cooldown, although it does not confer the snap shot perk. It has low damage and ammo capacity. Useful early on for raiding small UFO's with capable soldiers and plenty of arc thrower uses.

{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | Assault Rifles
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!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:Assault Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Assault Rifle''' || 3-5 || 10% || 5-7 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Laser Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Rifle''' || 4-6 || 10% || 6-9 || +7 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 15 || Beam weapons || 50 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Gauss Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Rifle''' || 4-8 || 10% || 8-11 || 0 || 0 || 4+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || All || 30 || Gauss Weapons || 100 || 12 || 2 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image:Pulse Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Rifle''' || 5-9 || 20% || 9-12 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || All || 60 || Pulse Lasers || 200 || 20 || 15 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image:Plasma Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Rifle''' || 6-10 || 10% || 10-14 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer|| 95 || Advanced Plasma Weapons || 380 || 40 || 30 || 2 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Arc Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Arc Rifle''' || 1-3 || 0% || 3-4 || 0 || 0 || 2+1 || 200 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Grants Disabling Shot, Cannot fire after any costly action || All except Gunners and Rocketeers || 25 || Xenoneurology New Combat Systems || 60 || 2 || 2 || 0 || 10
|-
|}

==='''Battle Rifle'''===
Battle Rifles are heavier versions of assault rifles. They do increased damage and have one additional burst relative to assault rifles, but carry a mobility penalty and a hefty aim penalty. They are best used by experienced soldiers who can aim well enough to offset the penalty (Infantry in particular, thanks to their high aim progression and ability to fire multiple times per turn cycle).
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! colspan="18" | Battle Rifles
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image:Battle Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Battle Rifle''' || 4-6 || 10% || 6-9 || -15 || -1 || 4+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image:Heavy Laser Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heavy Laser Rifle''' || 4-8|| 15% || 8-11 || -8 || -1 || 4+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 20 || Advanced Beam Lasers || 70 || 4 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image:Heavy Gauss Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heavy Gauss Rifle''' || 5-9 || 15% || 9-12 || -15 || -1 || 5+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 40 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 140 || 15 || 5 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image:Heavy Pulse Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heavy Pulse Rifle''' || 6-10 || 25% || 10-14 || -15 || -1 || 4+1|| 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 67 || Advanced Pulse Lasers || 220 || 25 || 20 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Heavy Plasma Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Heavy Plasma Rifle''' || 7-11 || 15% || 11-16 || -15 || -1 || 4+1 || 30 || {{Yes Icon}} || - || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 105 || Heavy Plasma Weapons || 400 || 40 || 28 || 2 || 18
|-
|}

==='''Shotgun'''===
Long War shotgun-type weapons are similar to their vanilla counterparts. High damage, high crit chance, short range. Shotguns are extremely accurate up close, but suffer from very poor accuracy over longer ranges (even with Cinematic Mode enabled). As such, they work best with highly mobile classes or those that only ever expect to engage enemies up close, like Assault and Scout soldiers. 

The sawed-off shotgun, a point-blank range, high damage sidearm with -1 mobility. It has only one shot, and this cannot be increased by ammo capacity upgrades.
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!colspan="18" | Shotguns
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Shotgun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Shotgun''' || 4-8 || 20% || 8-11 || 0 || 0 || 5+1 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage Reduction]] penalty || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Sawed-off Shotgun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Sawed-Off Shotgun''' || 4-8 || 5% || 8-11 || -15 || -1 || 1 || 3 || {{No Icon}} || Sidearm. Confers -1 mobility. Can only be used at point blank range. || Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 1 || None || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 1
|-align=center
|[[Image: Scatter Laser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Scatter Laser''' || 5-9 || 20% || 9-12 || +7 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage reduction]] penalty
| Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 18 || Advanced Beam Weapons || 80 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Alloy Cannon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Alloy Cannon''' || 6-10 || 20% || 10-14 || 0 || 0 || 4+1 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage reduction]] penalty .33 DR reduction
| Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 32 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 150 || 18 || 5 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Scatter Blaster Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Scatter Blaster''' || 7-11 || 30% || 11-16 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage reduction]] penalty
| Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 62 || Advanced Pulse Weapons || 250 || 20 || 20 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Reflex Cannon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Reflex Cannon''' || 7-13 || 20% || 13-18 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 (14) || {{No Icon}} || Long range accuracy penalty [[Damage (Long War)#Damage Reduction|Damage reduction]] penalty
| Infantry, Assault, Scout, Medic, Engineer || 102 || Sectopod Autopsy || 500 || 40 || 30 || 2 || 18
|-
|}

==='''Sniper Rifle'''===
Sniper Rifles are mostly identical to their vanilla counterparts and can only be used by Snipers. They have very long range (double the range of vanilla, making it functionally infinite), but can only be fired if the user has not taken a costly, including reloading, unless they have Snap Shot training. Long War sniper rifles have higher penalties when used at short range than vanilla sniper rifles. Sniper rifles can only overwatch fire up to visual range, so consider steadying the weapon instead to end a turn without targets (especially if you don't have snapshot training).
{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | Sniper Rifles
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Sniper Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Sniper Rifle''' || 4-6 || 25% || 6-9 || 0 || -1 || 5+1 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty || Sniper || 0 ||None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Laser Sniper Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Sniper Rifle''' || 4-8 || 25% || 8-11 || +7 || -1 || 3+1 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty || Sniper || 18 || Advanced Beam Weapons || 50 || 4 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gauss Long Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Long Rifle''' || 5-9 || 10% || 9-12 || 0 || -2 || 1+1 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty Grants HEAT Ammo perk. .33 DR reduction || Sniper || 35 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 250 || 15 || 5 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Pulse Sniper Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Sniper Rifle''' || 6-10 || 35% || 10-14 || 0 || -1 || 3+1 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty || Sniper || 65 || Advanced Pulse Lasers || 250 || 25|| 20 || 0|| 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Plasma Sniper Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Sniper Rifle''' || 7-11 || 25% || 11-16 || 0 || -1 || 3+1 || 200 (30) || {{Yes Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Short-range accuracy penalty || Sniper || 105 || Precision Plasma Weapons || 500 || 45 || 30 || 2 || 18
|-
|}

==='''Marksman Rifle'''===
Marksman rifles are smaller versions of sniper rifles that can also only be used by the Sniper and Scout classes. They have longer range than most weapons, but considerably shorter than sniper rifles nonetheless can be fired after moving. Like sniper rifles, marksman rifles have hefty accuracy penalties when used at short range. Marksman rifles have the same base damage as sniper rifles, but considerably lower crit chance. Marksman rifles can fire reaction shots up to their maximum range, and with Precision Shot they have unlimited range. 
Marksman Rifles are better suited to close-quarters maps where mobility is essential. 
{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | Marksman Rifles
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Marksman Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Marksman Rifle''' || 4-6 || 15% || 6-9 || 0 || 0 || 5+1 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty || Scout, Sniper || 0 ||None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Laser Strike Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Strike Rifle''' || 4-8 || 15% || 8-11 || +7 || 0 || 3+1 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty || Scout, Sniper || 18 || Advanced Beam Lasers || 50 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 12
|-align=center
|[[Image: Alloy Strike Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Alloy Strike Rifle''' || 5-9 || 15% || 9-12 || 0 || 0 || 4+1 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty .33 DR reduction || Scout, Sniper || 35 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 120 || 15 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Blaster Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Blaster Rifle''' || 6-10 || 25% || 10-14 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty || Scout, Sniper || 67 || Advanced Pulse Lasers || 220 || 25 || 20 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Reflex Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Reflex Rifle''' || 7-11 || 15% || 11-16 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 36 || {{Yes Icon}} || Short-range accuracy penalty || Scout, Sniper || 102 || Precision Plasma Weapons || 450 || 40 || 30 || 2 || 18
|-
|}

==='''Squad Automatic Weapon'''===
SAW-type weapons are the closest equivalent to vanilla LMGs in Long War. They can only be used by the Gunner class. SAWs have larger magazines and higher damage than assault rifles but confer a mobility penalty and can't be steadied. They allow faster movement than LMGs, but have less ammo and deal less damage. Suppressing a target with a SAW grants the Opportunist perk for any reaction fire triggered by enemy movement
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!colspan="18" | Squad Automatic Weapons
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: SAW Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''SAW''' || 4-6 || 0% || 6-9 || 0 || -1 || 6+2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Gunner || 0 ||None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Autolaser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Autolaser''' || 4-8 || 0% || 8-11 || +7 || -1 || 6+2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Gunner || 65 || Beam Weapons || 60 || 4 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gauss Autorifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Autorifle''' || 5-9 || 0% || 9-12 || 0 || -1 || 7+2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || Gunner || 32 || Gauss Weapons || 110 || 15 || 2 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Pulse Autoblaster Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Autoblaster''' || 6-10 || 10% || 10-14 || 0 || -1 || 6+2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Gunner || 65 || Pulse Lasers || 230 || 30 || 20 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Plasma Novagun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Novagun''' || 7-11 || 0% || 11-16 || 0 || -1 || 6+2 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Gunner || 98 || Advanced Plasma Weapons || 500 || 45 || 30 || 2 || 20
|-
|}

==='''Light Machine Gun'''===
LMG-type weapons are larger versions of SAWs and are also only usable by the Gunner class. LMGs carry a mobility penalty and can only fire if the user has not moved, but in return they have even larger magazines and even higher damage than SAWs. LMGs also have a slightly longer range than most weapons and confer the Squadsight perk on the user so they can make use of the extra range. When an LMG is used to suppress, the reaction shot taken if the target moves suffers no aim penalty and can crit. LMGs can only overwatch fire up to visual range. 
LMGs are ideal for heavy defensive situations where the Gunner can situate themselves securely and guard a given area using normal and reaction fire.
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!colspan="18" | Light Machine Guns
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: LMG Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''LMG''' || 4-8 || 5% || 8-11 || 0 || -2 || 8+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight || Gunner || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gatling Laser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gatling Laser''' || 5-9 || 5% || 9-12 || +7 || -2 || 8+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight || Gunner || 18 || Beam weapons || 60 || 5 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gauss Machine Gun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gauss Machine Gun''' || 6-10 || 5% || 10-14 || 0 || -2 || 9+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight .33 DR reduction || Gunner || 40 || Gauss Weapons || 140 || 16 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Gatling Pulser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Gatling Pulser''' || 7-11 || 15% || 11-16 || 0 || -2 || 8+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight || Gunner || 64 || Pulse Lasers || 215 || 35 || 22 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Plasma Dragon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Plasma Dragon''' || 7-13 || 5% || 13-18 || 0 || -2 || 8+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || Cannot fire after any costly action Grants squadsight || Gunner || 105 || Heavy Plasma Weapons || 500 || 48 || 32 || 2 || 20
|-
|}

==='''Rocket Launchers'''===
Sometimes you just have to make a good first-time impression. Sometimes you just happen to not have the right key for a door. Sometimes you just want to give those aliens a running start on their way back - do not fret, Xcom have some portable rocket launchers for you! 

Rockets are fairly simple to use - pick youр ability, aim and fire. There is always some guaranteed scatter which is limited by the soldier's Aim and Abilities. While mostly used by Rocketeers, Engineers also have the ability at later stages of the game to carry a rocket launcher. Carrying one forfeits your sidearm. For more information regarding rockets read bellow.
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!colspan="18" | Rocket Launchers
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Rocket Launcher Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Rocket Launcher''' || 4-10 || 0% || - || 0 || -1 || 1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Rocketeer|| 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Recoilless Rifle Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Recoilless Rifle''' || 6-12 || 0% || - || 0 || -1 || 1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || .33 DR reduction|| Rocketeer|| 35 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 100 || 25 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Blaster Launcher Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Blaster Launcher''' || 8-16 || 0% || - || 0 || -2 || 1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || Rocketeer|| 110 || Fusion Weapons || 600 || 60 || 65 || 2 || 20
|-
|}

==='''MEC Primary Weapons'''===
MEC weapons (unsurprisingly) can only be used by MECs. They are high damage and have extended range equal to marksman rifles and LMGs, but do not confer the squadsight perk, so only MEC classes that have squadsight can use the extra range. Even MECs with squadsight can only overwatch fire up to visual range.
{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | MEC Primary Weapons
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Minigun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Minigun''' || 5-9 || 10% || 9-12 || 0 || 0 || 2+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || - || MEC || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Laser Lance Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Laser Lance''' || 7-11 || 10% || 11-16 || +7 || 0 || 3+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || - || MEC || 20 || Advanced Beam Lasers || 80 || 5 || 0 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Railgun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Railgun''' || 7-13 || 10% || 13-18 || 0 || 0 || 4+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || .33 DR reduction, no suppression || MEC || 35 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 120 || 25 || 3 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Pulse Lance Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Pulse Lance''' || 7-13 || 20% || 13-18 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || - || MEC || 65 || Advanced Pulse Lasers || 240 || 35 || 24 || 0 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Particle Cannon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Particle Cannon''' || 8-14 || 10% || 14-19 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 36 (30) || {{No Icon}} || No suppression || MEC || 105 || Heavy Plasma Weapons || 450 || 45 || 40 || 10 || 14
|-
|}

==='''MEC Seconday Weapons'''===

With each upgrade of the MEC suit the number of utility items decreases while the number of secondary weapon systems increases. As such, they can play a vital role in area control, squad support or neutralizing targets. Be advised that unlike vanilla in Long War you have to build the systems yourself and they do cost a lot of meld.

{| class="wikitable"
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!colspan="18" | MEC Secondary Weapons
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Flamethrower Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Flamethrower''' || 4-10 || 0% || 8-11 || - || -1 || 2 || Cone || {{No Icon}} || Incendiary area attack causing panic || MEC || 20 || MEC Warfare Systems || 85 || 0 || 0 || 5 || 7
|-align=center
|[[Image: Kinetic Strike Module Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Kinetic Strike Module''' || 9-15 || 0% || 15-21 || - || -1 || ∞ || Melee || {{No Icon}} || Close combat weapon || MEC || 22 || Floater Autopsy || 200 || 15 || 2 || 8 || 10
|-align=center
|[[Image: Grenade Launcher Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Grenade Launcher''' || 3-7 || 0% || - || - || -1 || 2 || 17 || {{No Icon}} || Indirect-fire Grenade Launcher || MEC || 35 || Gauss Weapons || 150 || 12 || 0 || 6 || 10
|-align=center
|[[Image: Proximity Mine Launcher Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Prox. Mine Launcher''' || 6-12 || 0% || - || - || -1 || 3 || 17 || {{No Icon}} || Fires Proximity Mines || MEC || 40 || Advanced Gauss Weapons || 150 || 12 || 0 || 10 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Restorative Mist Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Restorative Mist''' || - || 0% || - || - || -1 || 1 || 17 || {{No Icon}} || Heals allies in an area || MEC || 28 || Thin Man Autopsy || 120 || 0 || 0 || 10 || 14
|-align=center
|[[Image: Electro Pulse Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Electro Pulse''' || 3-9 || 0% || - || - || -1 || ∞ || 17 || {{No Icon}} || Stuns robots. 3 turn cooldown || MEC || 85 || EMP Weapons || 180 || 15 || 15 || 15 || 14
|-
|}

==='''SHIV Turrets'''===
Similar to the SAW but considerably more powerful, these heavy and expensive guns are the only weapons that the SHIV can use. While they suffer from the low base aim of all SHIV units, they can shred through enemies at close range, restrict enemy movement options when in overwatch mode thanks to certain equipment, and can deal massive damage to mechanized forces when equipped with HEAT ammo.
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
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!colspan="18" | SHIV Turrets
|-
!rowspan="2" | Name !! rowspan="2" | {{Damage Icon}} '''Dm''' !! rowspan="2" |{{ Crit Hit Chance Icon}} ''' Crt %''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Crit Hit Damage Icon}} ''' DmC'''!! rowspan="2" | {{Aim (Long War)}}'''Aim''' !! rowspan="2" | {{Mobility (Long War)}} '''Mob'''!! rowspan="2" | Ammo !! rowspan="2" | Range !! rowspan="2" | Steady? !! rowspan="2" | Special !! rowspan="2" | Classes !! colspan="2" | Prerequisites !! colspan="5" | Cost
|-align=center
| {{Engineers Icon}} || {{Research Icon}} || {{Credits Icon}} || {{AA Icon}} || {{Elerium Icon}} || {{Meld Icon}} || {{Time Icon}}
|-align=center
|[[Image: Autocannon Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Autocannon''' || 5-9 || 10% || 9-12 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || SHIV || 0 || None || colspan="5" | N/A
|-align=center
|[[Image: Superheavy Laser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Superheavy Laser''' || 6-10 || 10% || 10-14 || +7 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || SHIV || 20 || Advanced Beam Lasers || 80|| 5 || 0 || 0 || 14
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|[[Image: Sentry Gun Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Sentry Gun''' || 7-11 || 10% || 11-16 || 0 || 0 || 4+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || .33 DR reduction || SHIV || 35 || Gauss Weapons || 120|| 15 || 3 || 0 || 14
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|[[Image: Superheavy Pulser Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Superheavy Pulser''' || 7-13 || 20% || 13-18 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || SHIV || 65 || Pulse Lasers || 300|| 35 || 25 || 0 || 14
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|[[Image: Superheavy Plasma Long War.png|center|128x64px]]'''Superheavy Plasma''' || 8-14 || 10% || 14-19 || 0 || 0 || 3+1 || 30 || {{No Icon}} || - || SHIV || 100 || Vehicular Plasma Weapons|| 500|| 45 || 40 ||3 || 21
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== Steadying ==
Many weapons have an extra action available: Steady Weapon. This is a standard action, which will end the turn when used, which grants +20 aim for the next shot. The bonus is discarded if the soldier moves or switches weapon. This essentially allows a soldier to fire a carefully aimed shot over two turns. The use of perks such as '''Light 'Em Up''' and '''Double Tap''' only apply the bonus to the first shot taken. Note that sniper rifles can be steadied after moving, even if the operator cannot fire them. Steady Weapon's Aim bonus also applies to fired rockets, reducing rocket scatter.

== Explosives ==
In Long War explosives no longer do fixed damage to all targets in their radius. The further a target is from the center of the blast, the less damage it will take. This also applies to cover and cover in general is a little tougher than in vanilla.

== Rockets ==
Long War uses a revamped system for rocket accuracy. Aim is used when firing rockets to determine the chance of them landing on target, rather than the fixed 90% chance in vanilla. Rather than the vanilla behavior of a missed rocket veering wildly off course, Long War rockets never "miss" but will veer off course a random amount based on the soldier's Aim, with higher Aim giving less scatter. Lower range means less scatter, and the soldier achieving 120 Aim yields no scatter at any range. Rockets can also be fired after moving, but with increased scatter and reduced range. Rockets can not change height through scatter.

The hit chance shown while aiming is not a literal % hit chance, nor is it the maximum scatter distance. "Scatter" instead indicates the standard deviation on the X and Y axis. You can expect 68% of your rockets to hit within the standard deviation, 95% to hit within 2 times the standard deviation, and 99.7% to hit within 3 times the standard deviation. Rockets can exceed even this degree of deviation, but the chance is negligible.

Unblocked (no "Shot is Blocked" warning) rockets that veer off course will travel through most destructible terrain to their destination, destroying it in the process. If they encounter an allied or enemy pawn, they will detonate immediately.

[[Category: Long War]]

Talk:Weapons (Long War)

2014-11-08T01:55:37Z

Boris: /* Ammo count */ new section

Does anyone have the list for how many of each alien weapon type are required for what plasma weapons?
:[[Alien Artifacts (Long War)]] [[User:Binkyuk|Binkyuk]] ([[User talk:Binkyuk|talk]]) 20:50, 18 October 2014 (EDT)

== Ammo count ==

The use of "X+Y" for "ammo count + lock and load bonus" seems like a lot of work when we can just put on note on the item/ability that grants it. Since the only weapon that doesn't get +1 is the SAW (and SAW users can't get Lock and Load any other way), I'm going to add a note on Hi Cap Mags (+2 for SAWs) and remove all the +Ys on these weapons if no one has an objection.