Vortex Mine: Difference between revisions

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This explosive device uses a tiny dimensional flux generator which allows anti-matter to seep through a tiny dimensional warp. The resultant explosion is very powerful.  From: Apocalypse Ufopaedia

Size: 2 × 2
Weight: 4
Power: 150
Damage Type: Explosive
Blast Radius: 7
Base Price: $1130
Battlescape Score: 8

Note: although it is called a "mine", it is only an explosive device and does not have any proximity function.
A powerful Alien explosive grenade which may cause extensive damage to structures, kill grouped entities, can make a hole in the roof of a UFO, destroy large sections of cover, produce craters in terrain etc. and is able to destroy the 'orange pad' terrain features found inside buildings within the alien dimension.

X-Com: Apocalypse: Equipment
Weapons:	Megapol Lawpistol • Marsec M4000 Machine Gun • Megapol Laser Sniper Gun • Megapol Auto Cannon • Megapol Plasma Gun • Marsec Heavy Launcher • Marsec Minilauncher • Megapol Stun Grapple • Power Sword
	Megapol AP Grenade • Megapol Stun Grenade • Megapol Smoke Grenade • Marsec Proximity Mine • Marsec High Explosive • Diablo Incendiary Grenade
	Toxigun • Alien Gas Grenade
Equipment:	Armor • Mind Shield • Mind Bender • Medi-Kit • Motion Scanner • Psiclone • Elerium
Alien Artifacts:	Disruptor Gun • Devastator Cannon • Boomeroid • Brainsucker Launcher • Entropy Launcher • Dimension Missile Launcher • Vortex Mine • Personal Disruptor Shield • Personal Teleporter • Personal Cloaking Field
Other:	Innate/Grown-In Weapons

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-[[Image:Vortex_Mine.jpg|thumb|right|The Vortex Mine, image from the UFOpaedia]]
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-The Vortex Mine is the single most powerful thrown explosive in the game, capable of dealing a massive 150 damage in a single explosion.  It is also the only weapon in the game that can destroy the orange reinforcement pads in alien buildings.  However, it has a very large blast radius, and if used in buildings owned by organizations you would like to remain friendly with may cause slight problems.  On the expensive hotel buildings, a single vortex mine can cause an entire section of the glass roof over the alleyways to collapse, annoying the owners and injuring your troopers.
+ This explosive device uses a tiny dimensional flux generator which allows anti-matter to seep through a tiny dimensional warp. The resultant explosion is very powerful.  ''From: Apocalypse Ufopaedia''
-However, on the good side, aliens tend to use vortex mines sparingly, perhaps only 1 or 2 per mission, unlike the boomeroids which anthropods will commonly throw 2 or 3 at once.  And because it has such a large blast radius and damage rating, it can kill wounded aliens in groups, and severely injure any aliens within the blast range, bringing shields down almost all the way, shaving 2 or 3 devastator blasts off the required amount to kill an alien
+{|
+|[[Image:Equip-Weapon-Vortex-(Apocalypse).png|left]]
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+* Size: 2 × 2
+* Weight: 4
+* Power: 150
+* Damage Type: '''Explosive'''
+* Blast Radius: 7
+* Base Price: $1130
+* Battlescape Score: 8
+|}
+Note: although it is called a "mine", it is only an explosive device and does not have any proximity function.
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+A powerful Alien explosive grenade which may cause extensive damage to structures, kill grouped entities, can make a hole in the roof of a UFO, destroy large sections of cover, produce craters in terrain etc. and is able to destroy the 'orange pad' terrain features found inside buildings within the alien dimension.
-The vortex mine is, in otherwords, a powerful but dangerous explosive, that completely outclasses the High explosive, and is great in causing lots of damage to anything within its large blast radius.
-'''''Official Entry:''''' "This explosive device uses a tiny dimensional flux generator which allows anti-matter to seep through a tiny dimensional warp. The resultant explosion is very powerful."
-==See Also==
-* [[Alien Artifacts (Apocalypse)|Alien Artifacts]]
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