40mm Shotgun Round

Think of this as the round you load when the explosive ones are gone. It fires a spread of shot out of the multiple grenade launcher, so it plays like a very bulky shotgun: strong in a doorway, pointless at range, and no raiding tool.

Its one real advantage is safety. You can't blow yourself up with it, so it's fine inside a base where an HE grenade going off against a nearby doorframe would catch you in the blast. If a raider breaks into your core while you are holding the launcher, this is what you want in the drum.

But be honest about the comparison. A proper shotgun with buckshot is lighter, quicker to swap to and costs far less to keep fed. Nobody brings a launcher to a fight just to shoot this.

Like the other 40mm rounds it can't be crafted or researched. You loot it from heavy scientists, and some safe-zone vending machines sell small stacks for scrap, which beats spending HE on fights that never needed it.