IRON NEST Requisition Console — Punchcards, Costs and How Credits Work

How you earn and lose requisition credits

This page does not give you a conversion formula, because there is not one. Requisition arrives from several separate mechanisms, and any single "X per kill" or "X per star" rule fails as soon as you watch an actual mission run.

What the game itself tells you: IN-GAME TEXT

Destroying a hostile target reports "+5 Requisition."

Destroying a friendly target reports "−10 Requisition" — alongside a triple CEASE FIRE! warning.

Mission events can grant more outright: the game has a message reading "Additional Requisition points granted."

What players have observed, at community evidence level: COMMUNITY a run recorded after 1.0 released shows a priority target being destroyed for +75 requisition, a starting balance of 350 on the first mission, and additional requisition from destroying underground supply caches. These are single-run observations, not measured rates.

Why we will not publish the widely-quoted formula. One third-party database gives a clean "25 per star" conversion — nothing for an unstarred target, 125 for a five-star one. That formula cannot produce 75. Mission objective rewards and kill rewards are two different systems, and a single coefficient does not describe both. We would rather leave a gap here than publish a number that breaks on the first mission you play.

One piece of arithmetic that does hold up. A friendly kill costs 10 and an enemy kill pays 5, so one friendly-fire hit wipes out two clean kills. That same statistic is what the Measured Fire Star medal scores — where gold requires zero friendly kills. See medals and their thresholds.

If you have a recording that pins down the objective-reward rates, send it to us — this is the largest genuine gap on this page.

Using the console

Where it is: sources disagree, and we have not settled it ourselves. COMMUNITY UNVERIFIED One detailed third-party guide, which states it worked from 1.0 gameplay footage, places the console beside the tactical map, to the left of the two teleprinters. Another places it on the deck to the right of the gun position. We work from the first, but we have no footage of our own and we are not going to present a contested location as a fact.

Ordering. COMMUNITY You select the card you want and confirm the request; for shell loads you specify which magazine it goes into, left or right. Delivery is close to immediate. This comes from a single recorded playthrough rather than documentation.

If a request does not go through, the things worth checking are the ones we can actually verify: whether your balance covers the cost, whether that card is unlocked yet, and whether the mission briefing has authorised the console at all.

If the console is completely unresponsive, we do not have an answer, and neither does anyone else we could find — the most thorough operations guide on the subject does not cover it. We would rather mark this as an open gap than invent a fix. If you have hit this and found a way out, tell us.

When the console is available

The mission briefing authorises it. IN-GAME TEXT The build's briefing text includes the phrase "Requisition console is authorised" — availability is granted by the operation you are on, not switched on globally.

Which operation first grants it is less certain. COMMUNITY UNVERIFIED A third-party wiki says the console unlocks from Operation 3 — Liberation — onwards, but that page also carries demo-era context, and it is the only source that says so. Treat it as likely rather than established.

Cards unlock as you play. BUILD DATA The build contains an end-of-mission "Punchcards Unlocked" message, and the save keeps a list of unlocked cards and their states. So the set of cards available to you grows through the campaign.

What unlocks what, we do not know. UNVERIFIED We have no reviewable source for the unlock conditions or their order, and we are not going to reconstruct a table from guesswork. This is the same open question as shell unlocks.

What happens when you run out of shells

The game answers this directly. IN-GAME TEXT When the magazine is empty it tells you: "Use Requisition station to get more Shells." The build also carries per-shell variants of that prompt — one for HE, one for STAR, one for phosgene — so you get told specifically which load you have exhausted.

So the resupply loop is: buy the shell card at the console, load it, keep firing. The prices are in the table above, and at 2 requisition for SMK or STAR the cheap loads are cheap for a reason — read what each shell does before you spend 666 on ATMC.

If you are running dry on a particular mission rather than in general, that is a mission-pacing problem — see the walkthroughs, for example Counter-Battery.