By Evie Moriarty, Lead Game Designer
Photo by Fatima Martín Pérez

 

The new edition of Fallout: Wasteland Warfare is on the horizon, and if you’ve been reading these development diary entries closely you might have noticed a reference here or there to mods… But what are they?

 

What Are Mods In Fallout: Wasteland Warfare?

 

If you have played the previous edition, you’ll know that different varieties of a weapon were represented by entirely new weapon cards.

 

Take a Staggering Pipe Rifle for example. This was a different weapon to a standard Pipe Rifle, which meant it had a whole different card. The same was true for armor - Heavy Combat Armor was a completely different item to Combat Armor.

 

In the second edition of Fallout: Wasteland Warfare, we change things up a bit by introducing mods.

 

The weapons and armor you’ll find in the book are all the “standard” versions. You spice them up by applying mods.

 

As an example, you’ll find a Pipe Rifle listed but none of the variants. Instead, you’ll make those variants yourself by attaching mods to them. You could make it a Heavy Pipe Rifle, a Rapid Fire Pipe Rifle or even a Silenced Pipe Rifle just by attaching the right mod to it.

 

Normally a weapon can only have a single mod attached to it, but some special rules can change that.

 

For example, Pipe Rifles have the Blank Slate special rule that means that they can have a second mod attached. Time to live out your dream of a Silenced Rapid Fire Pipe Rifle!

 

What Mods Will You Find In Fallout: Wasteland Warfare?

 

In the core rulebook you’ll find mods for small guns (pistols, shotguns, rifles and the like) and for melee weapons (swords, sledgehammers, and so on).

 

There will be mods for big guns and energy weapons and perhaps even explosives in the future, but for right now one of the advantages of those less exotic weapons is their flexibility. The game offers you plenty of opportunity to use mods to build the weapon you really want to play with.

 

It’s not just weapons that get mods either. Armor can have even more flexibility than weapons, with each suit able to take up to three different mods. You can lead line your combat armor to help against radiation, while also reinforcing it against physical damage, and adding camouflage with the shadowed mod to help with stealth.

 

How To Find Mods To Customise Your Warband

 

So how do you get a hold of mods? Well the simplest and most available ones can be bought from faction traders, but the rarer mods you’ll have to hunt down in the Wasteland or get friendly with a faction who sells one. Finding the perfect mods to tweak your weapons is another fun way to customise your Warband.

 

If you really want to lean into modifying your weapons and armor, there are perks that can help with that.

 

But that might for another time, when we circle around and talk about all the perks you can pick up for your models!

 

Sounds good right? Pre-order a Fallout: Wasteland Warfare Starter Set today! Got more questions, or already planning your fanciest mod? Grab a (Nuka) cola and come and join us on our Discord.