Name: Large Attack Unit
Cost: $12,000
Weight: 10 Tons
Function: Primary Fire/Anti-Armor Fire
Mounts On: Cyclops (Imitate), Elephander, Geno Saurer PACT, Gojulas. Gordos,King Baron, Red Horn
Mount Location:
--On the Battle Cougar this modification replaces the 200mm Long Range Surge Cannons and is mutually exclusive wth any modification that replaces the Surge Cannons.
--On the Cyclops (Imitate) this modification mounts on top of the stock mortar cannon and is mutually exclusive wth any modification that replaces the mortar cannon.
--On the Elephander this modification mounts on the back only while in Assault Mode and is mutually exclusive with the Assault Gatling Unit
--On the Geno Saurer PACT this modification replaces the stock back guns and gain their mount.
--On the Gojulas this modification mounts on the back and is mutually exclusive with the Gatling Mortars or the Twin Republican Super Cannons.
--On the Gordos this modifications mounts to the right side, opposite the 80mm Heavy Cannons and is mutually exclusive with the Gatling Mortars.
--On the King Baron this modification mounts on the back and is mutually exclusive with the Gatling Mortars.
--On the Orudios this modification replaces the stock Great Busters and as such disables the Zeus' Fury aspect of the Knightmare set.
--On the Red Horn this mounts to the back and cannot be mounted with the extra Hybrid Vulcan Cannon, Storm Gatling Cannon or the Imperial Hyperbeam Cannon
In Brief: The Large Attack Unit consists of 2 250mm semiautomatic beam cannons that can be mounted to the lesser Helic Zoids. All Zoids get only 6 vollies from the Attack Unit.

Weapon Type: Twin Shelled High Power Beam Cannons
Ammunition: 250mm Pulsed Beams
Rate of Fire: Semiautomatic

Description: So, the Helic response to the Hybrid Vulcan Cannon was a pair of 80mm shell equivalent beam cannons - pulsed and semiautomatic, mounted the meanest and humblest of the Helic Zoids. That is the Attack Unit. This modification however, is NOT. The Large Attack Unit was born out of the need for tankbusters. Make no mistake, this was a massive engineering problem. To put this into perspective, 250mm is around 10.5 inches in diameter - which is the kind of gun you'd find on one of the smaller battleships. The Zoids that the New Helic Republic was mounting this too were much smaller than a battleship, so the gun had to be made an energy weapon to cut down on recoil. Then comes the power constraint problem... I'm sure you can imagine.

But the Helic engineers are nothing if not ingenious. While maybe more used to initial design questions, they worked it out in the end. There's one catch, though. The Large Attack Unit has power requirements that can't be met by most zoids. This means that it has shells. Shells for a pulsed energy weapon are hyper capacitors: kind of like specialized batteries that drain with every shot.

Note that both cannons of the Large Attack Unit are linked at the controls and fire together. And now, thanks to the transfer of many old Helic designs into the public domain following their merger with the ZBC, this part is available to the common pilot. Pay for it, and this fabulous 250mm beam cannon set could be yours...

On the Cyclops Imitate, the Large Attack Unit mounts on top of the mortar cannon meaning they can point where it does, however they cannot fire in unison with it isnce it fires in a parabolic arc. On the Elephander, Gojulas, Red Horn and King Baron it can pivot 90 degrees either direction horizontally (like a turret), and up to 20 degrees up or down. Since it replaces the PACT's main weapons it gets the same mount, the ability to rotate 360 degrees on the horizontal axis and 90 degrees up and down. On the Gordos this modification is fixed facing forwards.