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Source Tech Revolution pg. 102
Engineers have designed and adapted a wide range of weapons for mechs to use. Each weapon combines two factors—the weapon’s level and a weapon template—to determine its statistics and MP cost. Mech weapons use many of the same rules as standard weapons (Core Rulebook 168), including damage types, targeting Armor Class, damage, range, critical hits, capacity, usage, and weapon special properties.
Mech weapons also use the following key statistics.
Level: This denotes the weapon’s relative power. A mech can’t use a weapon with a level that exceeds its tier by more than 1.
Weapon Template: Each weapon uses a weapon template that determines the weapon’s basic shape and functions, such as a laser cannon or sword. A weapon template modifies some combination of the weapon’s statistics, such as damage, damage type, range, and special weapon properties.
Damage: Each weapon deals low, medium, high, or extreme damage based on the weapon’s level when it successfully hits a target; see Table 4–5: Weapon Damage on page 104 for the damage dealt by weapons of a given level. A mech also adds its tier to the damage dealt by weapons it wields, and a mech adds its Strength modifier to its damage with melee weapons.
Slots: These are the number and types of slots that a mech must devote to equipping and wielding the weapon. Slot types include frame, lower limb, and upper limb.
Capacity: This is the number of attacks a mech can perform with the weapon before needing to reload as a move action. Each mech can carry two additional sets of ammunition, unless it has one or more ammo reserve auxiliary systems.
Power Point: Many weapons have a special ability that the mech can only perform by expending one or more Power Points; the number of PP used is listed in parentheses.
Cost: This is the cost of the weapon in MP. Each weapon’s cost is based on the weapon’s level.

Table 4-5: Weapon Damage

Level	Low Damage	Medium Damage	High Damage	Extreme Damage
1	1d4	1d6	1d10	1d12
2	1d6	1d8	2d6	2d8
3	2d4	2d6	2d8	2d10
4	2d6	2d8	2d10	2d12
5	3d4	3d6	3d8	3d10
6	3d6	3d8	3d10	3d12
7	5d4	4d6	4d8	4d10
8	6d4	5d6	4d10	4d12
9	7d4	4d8	5d8	5d10
10	8d4	6d6	5d10	5d12
11	9d4	6d8	6d10	6d12
12	10d4	9d6	7d10	7d12
13	11d4	10d6	8d10	8d12
14	12d4	9d8	9d10	9d12
15	10d6	10d8	10d10	10d12
16	11d6	11d8	11d10	11d12
17	12d6	12d8	12d10	12d12
18	13d6	13d8	13d10	13d12
19	14d6	14d8	14d10	14d12
20	15d6	15d8	15d10	15d12

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Table 4-5: Weapon Damage