Grenade Rifles

Grenade Rifles are more mobile versions of the Grenade Launchers that are primarily designed to crack ACs. This makes them weaker for long duration missions as they frequently have a lack of ammo. They have the lowest ammo count alongside the Plasma Rifles but highest attack power in the Rifle family of weapons. Since Armored Core 4, they are renamed as Grenade Launchers.

Overview and Uses[]

These are designed to be used against ACs, although in long missions in tight-spaced areas, they are weak due to the fact that their splash damage could easily damage the user along with the target. It can be better described as a medium risk, high reward weapon, as it can destroy most normal units in a single shot and do serious damage to ACs; on the flip side, however, they have a small ammo capacity and therefore each shot must be used wisely. Another important note is that these weapons are very heavy, so using them also means that an AC is considerably slower.

Overall, it's a fine anti-AC weapon but with Human PLUS, it becomes less useful. It is fairly weak in long missions for either arm as a blade or weapon with more ammo can be more useful overall.

In the Armored Core V era, there are two types of weapons similar to Grenade Rifles/Launchers called the Cannons and H.E.A.T. Cannons, which are hand-held weapons. Cannons have high attack power and impact power, and high bullet speed that exceeds that of Rifles, but have problems with reloading and locking time. However, their reloading is superior compared to Sniper Rifles, and the general method of use is to use them in conjunction with Subcomputers to speed up locking. While H.E.A.T. Cannons fire large caliber CE bullets and has very good firepower, but the bullet speed is extremely slow. There are two types: a powerful type that emphasizes attack power and bullet speed, and a rapid-fire type that emphasizes reloading and number of bullets. The powerful type is slightly inferior in reloading, but has very high attack power and slightly better bullet speed. And although the rapid-fire type has a hopelessly slow bullet speed, it has both high attack power and extremely fast reload, making it highly suitable for destroying large helicopters and artillery batteries. Even though H.E.A.T. Cannons' high firepower is undoubtedly attractive, their effective range is too short due to their low bullet speed, and there are few opportunities for them to be used in interpersonal combat. However, in closed spaces such as tunnels and caves, these drawbacks are not as noticeable, and they simply turn into weapons with high firepower and high impact, and used as the main weapons of tanks.

Variants[]

There is only one type, although there is typically a highly damaging low ammo model and a lighter weaker damage model that has more ammo. Unlike most weapons, they are mounted on the AC's forearm like Laser Blades, rather than actually being held in hand.

List of Grenade Rifles[]

Master of Arena[]

WG-PB26

2 to Another Age[]

EWG-HC-GN210

3 to Silent Line[]

Nexus to Last Raven[]

4 to For Answer[]

V to Verdict Day[]

Cannons[]

H.E.A.T. Cannons[]

VI[]

Trivia[]

The term "Grenade" is a bit of a misnomer as the rounds fly perfectly straight when fired unlike in a parabolic arc like modern Grenade Rifles do. It is better described as a High Explosive artillery cannon.