Grenade
From Lexicanum
Grenades are hand-held devices thrown at the enemy and designed to in some way damage or disrupt an enemy formation or a single vehicle. A grenade is designed either to be fired from some form of grenade launcher, or to be thrown or placed by hand.
Several grenade types are exotic and are too expensive and dangerous to be standard issue.
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Types
Many types of grenades have been developed to cause various effects. In first and second edition, there were many types of grenade, available to most races and armies, and came in both grenade and missile form. In game terms, from 3rd edition onwards, only a few types are used by each type of army. The vortex grenade was recently brought back for Apocalypse-scale battles. Grenades of Orkish design are known as stikkbombs.
Defensive
Offensive
- Frag grenade, in held-held grenade form they are useful for stunning enemy infantry before they are charged. In grenade launcher shell form they explode fragments over an area.
- Plasma grenade
- Stikkbomb
Anti-Tank
- EMP Grenade: Used exclusively by the Tau. Used against light vehicles.
- Haywire grenade
- Krak grenade, the opposite of a frag, it explodes in a highly concentrated, directed area, to crack open heavy armour.
- Melta bomb
- Super Stikkbomb Used exclusively by Orks.
- Tankbusta Bomb: Used exclusively by Orks. Useful for penetrating light vehicle armour.
Other
- Antiplant grenade
- Blind grenade
- Choke grenade
- Hallucinogen grenade
- Knock-out grenade
- Psyk-out
- Rad grenade
- Scare gas grenade
- Smoke grenade
- Stasis
- Stumm grenade
- Tanglefoot grenade
- Toxin gas grenade
- Virus grenade
- Vortex grenade
