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The Use of Weapons

The Use of Weapons is a general combat rebalancing mod with the intended purpose of making every offensive and defensive option in the ship designer fun, interesting and- hopefully- viable. It is currently in the early stages of development and testing, and may not achieve some or all of these in whole or in part. As a rule, however, I have tried to take vanilla and balance around it, rather than radically alter the dynamics of combat- if it's broken, it shouldn't be *too* broken.

An exhaustive list of changes can be found in the mod's thread on the Paradox forums (https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/the-use-of-weapons-wip.938433/), but in short:

• Base armour is now much higher, and armour modules give more per unit.
• Armour penetration less common and complete armour negation is only available on non-standard weapons.
• Health has been rebalanced; larger classes now have less of an advantage over their smaller siblings.
• Evasion has been rebalanced; ships now have a higher base evasion, but gain less from tech and other sources.
• Stations, especially military stations and spaceports, have disproportionally more health and armour.
• Weapon range now increases with tech, as does ship combat speed.
• Larger weapons now fire less often but hit harder; overall their damage is unchanged.
• Beam weapons are mid to long range with high accuracy
• Plasma is short range, but high damage
• Energy Torpedoes do massive damage to shields, rather than bypassing them. This is to distinguish them from regular Torpedoes, which still have the bypass effect.
• Missile and Point Defence rates of fire increase with tech; missiles attempt to blow through PD by sheer volume of fire.
• Torpedoes are mid range rather than long/extreme
• Strike Craft are faster, regenerate (slightly) faster and carry more craft.
• Prethoryn Swarm Strikers are now fighters rather than bombers, and can shoot down missiles/other strikecraft accordingly.

The balancing of missiles, pd, strikecraft and some critter weapons is still rather rough at this stage (missiles are probably underpowered; strikecraft overpowered).

What the mod does not do, currently, is tamper with the mineral costs of weapons in any way. The economic side of war is completely unchanged.

The mod is implictly incompatible with any other mod that adjusts the stats of weapons and ships; the most important are the files under common/component_templates and common/ship_sizes/00_ship_sizes.txt- others are not vital, but still probably not safe to overload.

The mod is *explicitly* incompatible with Blackthorn's ZBeautifulBattles, which can be found at https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=682776251. *However*, I have reimplemented much of that mod's functionality in this one, and you should see similar results. All credit goes to Blackthorn for his work.

**KNOWN ISSUES**

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Feedback is welcome and asked for.