Tube Charge

Frag Pipe

More powerful than a frag grenade and better suited for combat use than the bulky demolition charge, the versatile tube charge, or frag pipe, is used to great effect by many veteran guardsmen. While lacking the range of a grenade or the sheer destructive power of a demolition charge, the tube charge finds a middle ground that appeals to many regiments favouring mobility, stealth, and sabotage tactics. These relatively simple explosives are much easier to acquire—and use—than melta bombs, but can pose a significant threat to light vehicles, as well as infantry. A standard tube charge is armed by ripping off a small patch, which leaves about 5 seconds to detonation. One or more tube charges can be linked to a timer or detonator, which is often done for purposes of sabotage and trap-setting.

Setting tube charge requires a Routine (+10) Tech-Use Test. For each additional tube charge, increase the Damage inflicted by the explosion by +2 and the Blast Quality by 1.

Item type

Weapon, Ranged

Subtype / Model

Demolition Charge

Manufacturer

Adeptus Mechanicus

Related Technologies

• Explosives

Related ethnicities

• Tanith

Owning Organization

Departmento Munitorum