User blog:D0m0a/Nothgard Empire: Assault Project

Nothgard: Army
To accomplish the wish of the Emperor and take down the Demon Army, and the Order army if it gets in the middle, he clearly needs soldiers. And so, the full army is divided into four sections: The Legion, the Beast Army, the Saurian Army, and the Iron Army. In this chapter, we will talk about a project that, if it works, can change the rules of war: the Assault Project.

Assault Project
The Assault Project, name given time after of start the project, was created with the intention of create a handled version of the siege weapon, the Magic Cannon and be easier to use in battle, but during the project, it was created new weapons that initially works with the same formula as the Magic Cannon: all the weapons have a compartment where put an elemental gem inside a loader fabricated for said weapon, giving different effects to the magic bullets depending of the gem: Fire, Ice, Electricity, ETC...

Evidently, by the resources needed for it, actually, there isn't a large number of them, but the number is slowly rising, so it is possible that someday at least 25%, maybe more, of the imperial soldiers can have one of these weapons. Actually, the only units that used them are the Assault Troopers, and some Berserker or experimented Monster girl.

In addition, these weapons can be forged with the Demon Realm Silver they obtained from some captured mines, which changes completely the nature of these weapons, being able to knock down large objectives as dragons without killing them. The Empire is taking extreme measures to avoid that this kind of weaponry could be cursed with Demonic Energy, making them immune to it.

List of Weapons
These are the weapons created actually during this project. There isn't a lot of them, but some weapons are built more than others.

Gun: A small weapon, with small power, but enough to kill or disable an enemy at short and medium distance. At first stance was ready to be classified as a failure, but his small size, his lightness and the possibility of being put in a belt made it useful for many units. Surprisingly, this weapon has turned into a standard for captains, commanders, and some town guards as a defensive weapon when their swords and blades aren't useful. Some city guards use a weakened version of this weapon, charged with an electricity charged gem, for their work. Has a capacity of 15 shots.

Shotgun: A long two-handed weapon with a lot of destructive power. This type of weapon gets more powerful the nearer is the objective, but will lose power easily because the shot spreads in front of it. By this type of weapon, is used a special non-elemental magic gem by the instability of the shot. If somebody wonders the effect of this close-range weapon, it was tested against a Skeleton, and the tester spent a whole hour to find all the bones scattered on the area after the session. Noteworthy, after finding the bones, the Skeleton is still fine but seems to try to keep herself away of this weapon. Has a capacity of 6 shots

Elemental Grenade: A weapon that was created first as a joke, relating to put an unstable elemental gem inside a small object and throw it, seeing what could happen. Even if this idea came from a crazy mind, the result generated the creation of these elemental grenades, created when putting a deliberated-made unstable elemental gem inside a small container, and with a fuse with a small ore that maintains the instability on check, but when this fuze is separated from the object, it will take around 5 seconds on explode, so is needed to throw them away. They have nearly the same power as the Magic Cannon but its better to not strike them. after all, they're 'unstable'. Because of their nature, they can only be used once. There is a version of it called 'Stun Grenade' which explosion only makes a blight light that blinds everyone who sees it, alongside a strong noise that leaves leaf the victim for a while. The two reactions together can stun any objective with no problem.

Assault Rifle: A functional attempt to mix the Gun's ammunition with the Shotgun's power, but instead was created a two-handled fast fire version of the gun. This two-handed weapon can be used as a crossbow, and can or an only shot or a three rapid shots, or if they want an automatic rapid shot mode, all depending on the situation. This weapon has a capacity of 50 shots.



Elemental Launcher This is the very own reason of why the Assault Project was created. A large two-handled cannon, able to send large elemental shots to the objective, with only 75% of the power of the Magic Cannon, but able to cause chaos where hits. This weapon has a capacity of 4 shots.



Gatling Gun: This weapon was created in an attempt to raise the power of the Assault Rifle, seeing the effectiveness of the automatic rapid shot mode. And the result is this weapon, with three long barrels rotating in circles, and charged with a potent Elemental Gem, with a potent capacity of 300 shots, but this gem must be put on a secondary box connected to the weapon. Another problem is, by the weight of the materials used in such a weapon, it must be mounted in a tripod designed for it, which means that to mount it, dismount it, and transport it, must need at least one or two more soldiers for move it. But also exist a portable model with a capacity of 200 shots, but only soldiers with enough strength to hold the weapon in place can use it. Also, seems that it takes at least a second to start shooting. Anyways, this weapon has his good points, and is an excellent weapon for cover some siege weapons as the Magic Cannon and the Steel Scorpion, and ever is used in some forts, ships, and airships.



Sniper Rifle: A type of weapon created seeing how some soldiers tried to use the Assault Rifle for taking down the enemy with an only shot at a large distance, and for that function, this weapon was made. This weapon has the capacity to shot an element from the weapon's cannon at high speed and take an enemy at a large distance, much large than any other weapon. But this weapon only works with electrical elemental gems, because is the only element that can travel that speed. And can only shot 7 times. An added problem is that requires a lot of practice for aim with this weapon. Ever Elves, which are 'deities' with the bows, need to train to use this weapon.