List of Electromagnetic Projectile Devices in Fiction - Tabletop Role-playing Games and Wargames

Tabletop Role-playing Games and Wargames

• The Traveller role-playing game features a variety of "gauss" weapons used as personal weapons and vehicle weapons.
• In the tabletop version of Heavy Gear, railguns are found on main battle tanks and landships while the largest gears can carry a smaller version.
• In the role playing game Cyberpunk 2020, a mass driver is installed on the Moon.
• In the role-playing game Tal'Vorn, railguns and mass drivers are relics of a lost technology and are still used by the Northar race.
• In the post-apocalyptic role-playing game Rifts, the Glitter Boy character class is an individual who pilots a large armoured suit equipped with a railgun. The suit has a mechanism whereby it anchors itself into the ground when firing so as to avoid being knocked backwards by the gun's powerful recoil. Other Rifts character classes, specifically robots and cyborgs, have access to railguns.
• In the world of Warhammer 40,000, the Tau railgun is one of the most powerful guns in the game available as a personal weapon. The Manta Missile Destroyer and Tigershark aircraft employ these in a long barreled version, and the Tau Hammerhead gunship has two different variants. XV-88 Broadside Battlesuits carry high-power twin-linked shoulder railguns. The Necrons wield "Gauss" weaponry, but that is only a name given to a process as yet unknown to the galaxy at large, that does not use traditional Gauss weaponry. Instead of firing projectiles they use strong electromagnetic forces to strip an opponent's molecules away one layer at a time. The Imperium of Man arms its Apocalypse-class battleships and Space Marine Strike Cruisers with the Nova Cannon, which accelerates projectiles to near the speed of light.
• In the BattleTech and MechWarrior series of tabletop, roleplaying and video games, many of the BattleMechs are equipped with "Gauss rifle" weapons. Various tanks, drop ships, and warships are also equipped with Gauss rifles, including a variant scaled up to act as a warship's primary weapon.
• In the Infinity tabletop wargame, several of the Tactical Armored Gears are armed with Hyper-Rapid Magnetic Cannon or HMC. This weapon fires 3 mm tungsten darts at extremely high speed and with a fast rate of fire, capable of easily piercing even the toughest armor.
• In the miniature game AT-43 the Red Blok, one of the games factions makes extensive use of "Gauss" Weaponry, ranging from "Gauss" Submachineguns to the mighty Heavy "Gauss" Cannon. However despite the reference to coilguns, the description of their operation indicates that they are railguns.
• In Thing-Thing, the player may acquire a railgun.
• In the classic role-playing game Space Master, railguns are a common projectile weapon in 10th-millennium combat. In the context of the game world, they are called Magnetic Linear Accelerators, abbreviated as MLAs.
• In the anime Dragonar, the Giganos Empire uses a giant mass driver on the moon to attack Earth although it was originally used for transporting large rocks. Before dying, the Giganos leader, Giltorre, orders Meio Platt to destroy it.
• In the Starfire series add-on Alkelda Dawn, the interstellar race known as the "Umbra of Vestrii" use kinetic weapons.
• In the Miniatures games Urban War and Metropolis, as well as their predecessor Void 1.1 the standard weapon for the more technologically advanced races is the "Gauss Rifle" and is accompanied by larger and smaller versions like Sniper Rifles and Pistols.