Lances (VC4)

This article is about the Lances in Valkyria Chronicles 4. For other uses, see Lances (disambiguation).
Lances are the main weapons of the Lancer class. Notably, Lancers using standard Lances (not mortar-lances) can now launch and participate in Co-Op Attacks with other Lancers armed with standard Lances, and the main guns of allied tanks. They will only do so if the target is a vehicle, not if it is infantry or a structure.

Federation Lances[]

Stock Weapons[]

M2EQ - Standard[]

Basic anti-tank Lance with high power but mediocre accuracy.

SB9 - Accuracy[]

The SB9 series of Lances boast improved accuracy and range, while only having a slight reduction to their hitting power. However, their unlocks lag behind the M2EQ series during the storyline, meaning the SB9-series Lance the player has access to in a given mission will usually be at least one level lower than the M2EQ Lance they have access to.

It is worth combining these Lances with one of the more accurate Lancers: Gertrude Albright is the best choice for this.

Lancaar-SH - Mortar Lances[]

Mortar-Lances are shorter-ranged than Mortars, but boast a far superior blast radius, are more accurate than anti-personnel Hartman-series mortars while having almost equal destructive power, lack a mortar's setup time, and benefit from the greater toughness of Lancers. They are ideal for frontal assaults on groups of soldiers hiding behind sandbags, or for firing down on groups of enemies from a suitable vantage point. If aimed at a tank's radiator, they can still deal enough damage with the critical multiplier to destroy most types of Imperial tank, though they are almost entirely ineffectual against the Vulcan as its critical multiplier is balanced for the radiator to take multiple hits from Elias-series Mortars or regular Lances.

They work best with Lancers who have high base HP, such as Laurent McCloud and Jean Matrix.

Reward Weapons[]

Rewards[]

These weapons are earned by fulfilling certain criteria in Chapter 2, Interlude Squad E Assembles, Chapter 4 parts 1 and 3, Chapter 6, Chapter 7 part 2, Chapter 8 part 2, Chapter 9, Chapter 11, Chapter 13, Chapter 14, Chapter 15 part 1 and Chapter 17 part 1. Specifically, a random reward weapon is unlocked the first time (and only the first time) each of the following conditions is met:

Obtain A rank.
Kill all enemy Leaders.
Destroy all tanks (doesn't include bosses or fixed weapons).
No squad member deaths.
No squad members in critical condition or evacuated.

Therefore the maximum number of reward weapons that can be acquired in each of the above mentioned 13 missions is 5 and it's 65 in total. The missions can be replayed to fulfill the conditions that haven't been met. The quality of the rewards depends on the amount of R&D weapons researched and is based on a rank system from 1 to 5.

Post-game, Renown Points can be traded for a random reward weapon of a specified rank at the Infirmary. The ranks available for purchase depend on the total number of weapons obtained as mission rewards. Specifically, rank 1 is available from the start and the higher ranks are unlocked every 13 additional weapons acquired. So the requirement to unlock all 5 ranks at the Infirmary is to collect at least 52 reward weapons from the missions.

The Lancaar M1R and M2EQ-5R are both worthy additions to Squad E's arsenal when they drop. The same cannot be said for the SB9-7R, as by the time Rank 5 weapons start to be awarded the player will have long had the opportunity to max out the tech tree for Lances.

	Aim	Range	VsPsnl	VsArmor	Shots	Effect	Notes
Lancaar M1R	C	620	200	900	1	N/A	Rank 1 & Rank 2
M2EQ-5R	D+	620	180	1450	1	N/A	Rank 3 & Rank 4
SB9-7R	C+	620	260	1350	1	N/A	Rank 5

Note that the Lancaar M1R in VC4 has different stats compared to the original.

DLC[]

	Aim	Range	VsPsnl	VsArmor	Shots	Effect	Notes
SB9-5D	C	600	150	1180	1	N/A	A Captainless Squad DLC
M2EQ-9D	C	700	280	1800	1	N/A	Expert Skirmish DLC

Captured[]

Captured Imperial Lances boast unmatched power, but decreased range and accuracy compared to their Federation counterparts. Note that like all VC weapons, the range figure does not indicate when the projectile vanishes from existence as it would in most games: rather, beyond this range there is extremely rapid damage falloff. This is particularly relevant to the PL 6(e), given its extremely short range.

	Aim	Range	VsPsnl	VsArmor	Shots	Effect	Notes
VB PL 1(e)	D	400	120	980	1	N/A	Chapter 4 Part 2
VB PL 2(e)	D	400	130	1200	1	N/A	Squad Story: Gambler's Ruin
VB PL 3(e)	D	430	145	1400	1	N/A	Chapter 9
VB PL 4(e)	D	430	200	1700	1	N/A	Chapter 17 Part 1
VB PL 5(e)	D+	500	250	2000	1	N/A	Hard Skirmish 4
VB PL 6(e)	D	300	200	3000	1	N/A	Expert Skirmish 2 (DLC)

The VB PL B series are an oddity, being high-powered, short-ranged mortar-lances that also inflict an AP Use Up status effect (ie, units drain their AP faster when moving). They have no Federation equivalent.

	Aim	Range	VsPsnl	VsArmor	Shots	Effect	Notes
VB PL 1B(e)	B	150	380	240	1	AP Use Up	Chapter 12
VB PL 2B(e)	B	150	680	300	1	AP Use Up	Hard Skirmish 2
VB PL 3B(e)	B	150	730	400	1	AP Use Up	Challenge Skirmish 1

Imperial-only Weapons[]

VB PL[]

	Aim	Range	VsPsnl	VsArmor	Shots	Effect	Notes
VB PL 1	E	500	190	800	1	N/A
VB PL 2	E	500	220	950	1	N/A
VB PL 3	E	500	260	1100	1	N/A
VB PL 4	E	500	300	1200	1	N/A
VB PL 5	E	500	350	1300	1	N/A
VB PL 7	E	500	400	1500	1	N/A
VB PL 8	E	500	420	1600	1	N/A

VB MT & PL B[]

	Aim	Range	VsPsnl	VsArmor	Shots	Effect	Notes
VB MT 1	B	200	300	230	1	N/A
VB MT 2	B	200	350	240	1	N/A
VB MT 3	B	200	370	245	1	N/A	Only seems to be used by Ace Unsinkable Énder
VB PL 5B	B	180	360	260	1	AP Use Up	Used by enemies in Expert Skirmishes

Trivia[]

The note about the the SB9 requiring special summer and winter variants is based on issues encountered with a number of weapons during WW2: for example, Germany had to issue a special "K" ("kalt," "cold") version of their standard hand grenade because the fuze of the original was prone to failure in extreme cold, and had to redesign the ignition system of their flamethrowers because the original hydrogen pilot torch would not produce a large enough flame to ignite the fuel in the Russian winter. Most likely it is specifically referencing combustion problems suffered by early Bazooka variants, which would burn their propellant so quickly the tube exploded at high temperatures and so slowly the rocket was still burning when it left the tube in the cold, forcing the user to wear a gas mask to protect them from the hot exhaust flare. In real life this was solved by the development of Blastless Bazooka Propellant (BBP), a fuel which burned consistently at all temperatures.
For the M2EQ lances, the R&D images for the later models do not match up with the model in-game.

Valkyria Chronicles 4 Weapons
Main Weapons	Lances \| Machine Guns \| Rifles \| Sniper Rifles \| Mortars
Others	Accessories \| Engineer Tool \| Flamethrowers \| Grenades \| Mines \| Ragnaid

	Aim	Range	VsPsnl	VsArmor	Shots	Effect	Notes
SB9-1	C	650	140	950	1	N/A
SB9-2	C	650	145	1000	1	N/A
SB9-3	C	650	160	1060	1	N/A
SB9-4	C	650	175	1130	1	N/A
SB9-5	C	650	190	1200	1	N/A
SB9-6	C	650	200	1280	1	N/A
SB9-7	C+	650	225	1450	1	N/A
SB9-8	C+	650	225	1450	1	N/A
SB9-9	C+	650	235	1550	1	N/A
SB9-10	C+	650	250	1700	1	N/A