Weapons

Standard Infantry

Blunderbuss
This rather primitive and inherently inaccurate firearm is used to fire a light version of grapeshot: hundreds of tiny metal pellets (or, in a pinch, even small stones) enable each shot to saturate a considerable area. This gives the Blunderbuss its alternate name of Scattergun. It is the favoured weapon of Shock Troopers.

Bow/Crossbow
Rarely seen now, these rather archaic weapons still have sufficient potency for modern battlefield use when employed by skilled marksmen. The arrows do considerable damage against an unarmoured target, but lack the power to punch through modern body armour.
       
Caliver
Regular sidearm used by many troops in the Royal Army, this pistol is reliable but has low hitting power and short range.

Clockwork Pistol
An advanced attempt to overcome the rate of fire limitations of Calivers, Clockwork Pistol is preloaded with a number of cartridges it can fire at a devastating rate. Unfortunately it is also impossible to reload under battlefield conditions.

Double Caliver
Essentially simply two Calivers build into a single casing, this heavy pistol allows for a higher rate of fire at the cost of some inaccuracy. Higher production cost limits its availability to veteran and elite troops.

Field Cannon (crew served weapon)
Crewed by experienced teams of artillerists, this weapon can fire both armour piercing warheads and fragmentation bombs over vast distances. It can also be used to hurl the latter ammo over obstacles and can therefore also take the role of a mortar.

Fire Thrower
A highly devastating but complex and temperamental weapon firing combustive or corrosive chymical from a pressurised canister, a Fire Thrower is primarily suited only for highly trained operators versed in some basic alchemy. High production cost also limits its availability.

Flame Lance
Combining a traditional hafted weapon with the latest advances in alchemy and elyctricity, a Flame Lance's tip is mounted with a pod containing a mix of chymicals similar to that in a Fire Thrower. By pressing a release valve, the wielder can release a destructive burst of the deadly liquid over his foes. While there is only capacity for a single shot, the weapon is also much easier to use and manufacture than a full fledged Fire Thrower and can therefore be issued in larger numbers.

Hand Cannon/Shield Cannon
This unwieldy piece of ordnance has short range, tremendous recoil and it is impossible to load under battle field conditions, but the heavy shells it fires can punch through even a Heavy Juggernaut's thick armour plating with ease. For antipersonnel purposes, it can also be loaded with grapeshot. The name Shield Cannon stems from the fact that Tactical Juggernaut Armour tends to feature this weapon incorporated into the shield arm or even the shield itself instead of it being carried in the regular manner.

Harquebus
This reliable firearm is the standard weapon of the Rifle Battalions. It is often fitted with a bayonet for hand to hand purposes.

Jezzail
Otherwise known as Long Rifle, this heavy-calibre weapon boast the longest range of all man-portable fire arms today. Expensive to manufacture and difficult to aim while on the move, it is usually fitted with a telescope targeter and used for sniper work.

Lightning Rod
This is an elyctrochymical weapon that uses similar pod-like arrangement to that of a Flame Lance to entice a powerful elyctric arc to spring from the tip. This “miniature lighting” can easily melt through any infantry armour, but the downside is that the arc generated tends to ground before hitting if the target is not carrying enough metal (such as body armour) on his person to draw it.

Mounted Motorgun (crew served weapon)
The most destructive antipersonnel weapon ever devised, the rightly feared Motorgun can reduce entire companies of men to minced meat in mere minutes. The prodigious rate of fire comes at a cost however as the weapon and the massive is much too heavy to carry by normal foot troops. The weapon is also, despite years of work done on the clockwork mechanism, still somewhat unrealiable. It is issued to Artillery Battalions as a mounted weapon serviced by two skilled crewmen.

Multiple Rocket Launcher (crew served weapon)
At its most primitive, this is simply a number of rocket launch tubes strapped together and mounted on a tripod or on wheels. More durable versions (capable of firing more than one or two rounds before shattering) are build in the war factories at considerable expense, but the destructive effect they are capable of unleashing in the form of rocket barrages tend to make up the exorbitant cost of fielding them.

Rocket Launcher
A fairly simple weapon, this is basically just a tube where a rocket carrying the actual warhead is crammed. The tube is then simply used to target the initial launch of the rocket as it careens wildly into the sky. More developed models feature a flintlock system to lit the fuse of the rocket. Rockets themselves can feature any type of warhead from alchymic to thaumaturgic

Troops

Powered Infantry

Juggernaut -- Quality: Matrix (SZ=3)
A marvelous product of the new synergy of all schools of magic and mechanistics, a Juggernaut is an artificial warrior, a massive construct of metal, leather, wood and more exotic substances. Inside their armoured shell, a chucking miniature steam engine conveys motive power to the legs and arms via a mindbogglingly complex system of cogwheels, levers and pulleys. Yet this feat of engineering is but a child's stick figure next to an artist's canvas when compared to what motivates the movements thus enabled: a humming crystalline metaclockwork engine the size of a human head. Parts of this fantastic device, combining the arts of alchemy, elyctricity and thaumaturgy, operate outside our plane of existence. The metaclockwork engine is used to interpret combat instructions encoded onto metallic command cylinders that are inserted into it before battle and to convey these instructions to the hull mechanismics via elyctric cables, thus bringing the Juggernaut to "life". Although a Juggernaut's artificial mind isn't anywhere near as versatile as that of a human, the construct is obviously much stronger and more durable than any mortal can ever hope to be. Organized into special Iron Guard Maniples, they are used to mount weapons -- of both ranged and melee variety -- that are too heavy for any single human to wield and to spearhead assault against the hardiest of the Kingdom's foes.

Tactical Juggernaut Armour -- Quality: Veteran (SZ=3)
Since the introduction of the Iron Guard, the Royal Army's demand for Juggernauts has been on the constant increase, while their production numbers have lagged behind, largely due to the inherently unpredictable process of creating metaclockwork engines. Observing that the steam-powered Juggernaut hulls are easier to manufacture than the controlling "minds", enterprising mechanists of the war laboratories came up with a way to alleviate the problem somewhat. They managed to rearrange internal workings of the Juggernaut hull so that a human pilot could fit inside the casing to control the hull's movement while benefiting from added protection of the extra armour and enhanced strength of the artificial musculature. Thus, Tactical Juggernaut Armour was created. Piloted by the most experienced of Knights and the few merchants both extraordinarily wealthy enough to afford the suit and reckless enough to enlist in the Royal Army, TJAs are a rare sight on the battlefield, but one that spells certain doom for the enemies of the Kingdom.

Thaumaturge -- Quality: Elite
Despite the Magnificient University's millennia of slow progress at making magic a science instead of an art, still only a precious few are born each generation with both a significant ability for thaumaturgy and the presence of mind necessary to achieve the discipline required to exercise their craft under battlefield conditions. This cream of the crop is almost invariably, sometimes forcibly, drafted into the Royal Army to serve as Battle Magi. Summoners, including those capable of the once outlawed practice of Necromancy, are especially in demand as they are able to swell the ranks of the Army with their unliving creations. As can be expected, the Kingdom spares no expense when equipping the Thaumaturges: specially crafted hand weapons and body armour embedded with crystal lattices and encasing their Foci are capable of channeling and enhancing their arcane energies to provide them with supreme protection as well as superhuman strength and stamina. For ranged combat, they use a variety of fear-inspiring Puissant Guns that fire thaumaturgically charged ammunition.

Hey guys,

I just finished a little drawing for the upcoming D:EoA book, and thought I'd share it - its an Industrial Fantasy Mecha. Nothing too fancy, but it seemed appropriate to put it in this thread...