MDP Magic Weapons

For the time being, this page is for purely magical shipboard weapons applications. oLOE's magitech shit basically.

A Confused Conceptual Image?!

"Low" Magic probably has a tough time getting by without low tech to support it by providing a medium to enchant. We'll stop worrying about enchantments here for now and concentrate on what happens when you put High Magic to work making units and weapons like in ye olde days.

Do all three branches of magic use artificing? Probably they all do, though it seems High Ritual would make the most of it since it's all about engineering. Now, are magic weapons this time around going to be spell-based, ie they emulate a spell (from a lower Magic Milieu level) using Magic Materials as a catalyst, or will they be based on the Magic Materials and use a Magitech Tree that reflects the Tech Milieu one? Nobody knows!

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Magical Circles can be mounted as Weapon or Option and may fire independently of Power Hungry weapons (since it's a mage casting the spell). They are facilities aboard a vessel or inside an MDP-scale fortification used to enhance or multiply the power of magic-users. All three branches of magic may use them, though only Ritual utilize the higher level versions.

Artifice Weapons are invariably created from some kind of Magical Resource. They tend to have side-effects or spell-like qualities and may be broadly considered the pure-magic counter to industry. Because active magic effects tend to interfere with one another, only one type of Artifice wWeapon may be operated on a ship at a time.

Drain weapons consume ether, souls, or something on a per shot rather than regular wartime upkeep basis. This is generally due to having large scale spell-like effects.

Magic Weapons

ML1

+2 Magical Circle
Magical Circle Boosts magic spells to Naval-scale. Penalty if spells cast are above the milieu level of the circle.

ML3

+4 Casting Chamber (High Ritual only)
Magical Circle The Casting Chamber boosts spells cast within it to MDP scale and grants the ship full access to the national grid up to the Milieu level of the chamber, for ordinary spellcasting only.
Range: +8

+4 Sacrificial Altar (Active Prime only)
Artifice Weapon (req. human sacrifices)
Drain (10 humans per shot)
The Sacrificial Altar is the simplest and vilest of magic weapons. It is essentially a magic circle that converts slaughtered sacrifices into a magical attack stream of energy, though no mage is required to attend to the process.
Attack: 8+; Energy
Range: 10
Effect: Upon firing, may elect to slaughter an extra 10 people to lower Target Number by 1 (to a max of 4+) or increase Range by 2 (to a max of 20).

ML4

+2 Fireball Launcher
Artifice Weapon (req. Thermoberyl)
Attack: 8+; Energy; Slow
Range: 6

+2 Cirno Cannon
Artifice Weapon (req. Cirno)
Attack: 8+; Hybrid
Range: 6
Effect: Deals no damage; rolls for a critical hit at +1.

+2 Lightning Tower
Artifice Weapon (req. Ambrium)
Attack: 8+; Energy
Range: 6
Effect: If the weapon rolls excess hit successes, the lightning can attack the next nearest target at +1 difficulty.

+2 Ganzite Resonator
Artifice Weapon (req. Ganzite)

+2 Construct Launcher
Artifice Weapon (req. Sildron)
Attack: 8+
Range: 6
Construct launchers are the closest magic comes to a normal cannon. They can be developed to fire a variety of things, from good old rocks to boxes of animated skeletons or golems.

ML5

+8 Leyline Nexus (High Ritual only)
Magical Circle A Leyline Nexus is a full node within the shipbuilding country's magic network, granting the entire fleet or battlefield full access to the national grid across all types of magic. It also boosts all spells cast from inside it to MDP scale.
Range: +12

+4 Conjuration Cannon
+6 Aqua Alchemica
+12 Arc-en-Ciel

Fusion Theory

+2 Small Ether-Cannon turrets (w/ML3)
Steampunk TM weapons equivalent to destroyer calibre naval rifles.
Attack: 7+
Range: 8

+3 Medium Ether-Cannon turrets (w/ML3)
Steampunk TM weapons equivalent to cruiser calibre naval rifles.
Attack: 7+; AP1
Range: 12

+4 Large Ether-Cannon turrets (w/ML3)
Steampunk TM weapons equivalent to battleship calibre naval rifles.
Attack: 7+; B21
Range: 16

+5 Very Large Ether-Cannon turrets (W/ML3)
Steampunk TM weapons equivalent to superbattleship calibre naval rifles.
Attack: 7+; B2
Range: 20

+2 Minor Aethyric Impeller turrets (W/ML4)
Small technomagical railguns.
Attack: 6+ AA1
Range: 12

+3 Major Aethyric Impeller turrets(W/ML4)
Medium technomagic railguns.
Attack: 6+ P1 AA1
Range: 16

+4 Greater Aethyric Impeller turrets(W/ML4)
Large technomagic railguns.
Attack: 5+ P1 S1
Range: 20

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