Dire Brand

Dire Brand
Class:	Ballistic Weapon
Sources:	Champions' Mall, 24999
Dmg Type:	Kinetic
Range:	1-2 (1-4 after research)
CD:	0
Intercept:	N/A
Level	I II III
Pre-Reqs:	Ionstormer-III Dire Brand-I Dire Brand-II
Upgrade:	422.4m 146:11:55 598.6m 00:00:00 Not checked
Dmg:	537-650 601-732 690-835
Vol:	40 42 44
Dmg/Vol:	14.838 15.869 17.33
Use:	0.57 0.60 0.63
Steering:	10.7 11 11.3
Module Cost:	371 296 278 392 309 296 436 343 329

Dire Brand is a Ballistic Weapon. Ballistic weapons possess a short range and low damage potential per attack, but also no cooldown and consume little He3. They can eventually be upgraded to do scattering damage, hitting all ships in the same horizontal row as the targeted ship stack. Higher level research grants bonus damage based on closeness to the target, granting up to 220% bonus damage when attacking from 1 square away.

Ballistic Weapon overview

• Shooting Range: 1 - 2 (Maximum of 1-4 after research.)
• Cooldown: 0
• Damage per attack: Low
• He3 Consumption: Low
• Damage Type: Heat/Kinetic
• Scattering Damage (researched): Ships in the same

row as the target will suffer up to 50% of the attack's damage, depending on research level.

• Cannot be Intercepted