Armor-Piercing Shell
Anti-armor / hardened targets
The IRON NEST armor-piercing shell trades blast for penetration, built to punch through tanks, bunkers and reinforced emplacements. Here's when to load it and how to land it.
When the report says armor, this is the answer.
The armor-piercing shell is your answer to anything hard. Where a high-explosive round splashes its energy outward, an AP round concentrates mass and velocity into a single point to defeat armor and concrete.
When to load it
Reach for armor-piercing whenever your intelligence report names a hardened target — tanks, armored vehicles, bunkers or reinforced positions. Against soft or grouped targets it’s a poor choice; the penetration is wasted where blast would do far more.
How to land it
AP rounds are dense and depend on a clean solution:
- Take an accurate range on the tactical map.
- Solve elevation on the ballistic calculator, accounting for the shell’s weight.
- Set the propellant charge to the range band — heavy rounds need the push.
- Fire, then read the splash and correct.
Because the shell is heavy, a charge that’s fine for a lighter round may fall short here. If you swap to AP, re-check your solution.
In the wider loadout
Armor-piercing is one of the foundational rounds you’ll want fluent early, alongside the high-explosive shell. As you unlock more of the roughly 30 ammunition types, you’ll add specialist anti-armor options — but a well-placed AP round remains the cleanest answer to a hard target. For the broader picture, see the ammunition guide.