@DivideByZero - Clause released a mod called Mercenary Plasma Weapons (IIRC)
He put a config file together which includes mobility for each weapon along with a Range Table. It doesn't replace the vanilla weapons and by default uses the same damage etc.
But I'm with AA on this. The item/weapon used should be applying the effect of its use, not a soldier ability.

Its easy to code but you cant do it via ini editing

Many thanks for the clarification AA.
btw I'm doing some ini tinkering to try and add a mobility penalty to a weapon, do you know of a mod that already does that so I can check the code involved?

That's correct. You cannot have 2 secondary weapons.

Just wondering, when you say you can't give pistols to reapers you mean you can't get them to have their signature claymore(s) AND carry a pistol too, I suppose?
Because I think after all I'd like to equip a pistol on a reaper when I know the Lost are present, since you're not going to want to blow up stuff anyway.

Anytime captain

I suppose this mod provides the bases for all weapons to have a weapon based skill to use them. If that is the case I'm very happy as I've had an idea for a mod for ages but never had the time to learn how to mod properly. I'm still an ini tinkerer =)
So thank you AA - from us ini tinkerers that you so kindly called modders.

@The Real Cynik
Slight (lol) necro, but how did you manage to do that ? I'd like to do the same as well as giving ranged hacking to gremlins.

thanks, I ended up going overboard and giving LaunchGrenade to Grenade Launchers, and SwordSlice to Swords 😅

Probably, feel free to take my code and just swap it

is it possible to do the same for Grenade Launchers and LaunchGrenade? I always found it ridic that the weapon itself does not allow launching grenades, but a soldier's skill does

Yes, but that's an entire different mod. Check here, its up there somewhere.

Hmm, wonder if it's possible to give rookies the pistol/autopistol as a primary weapon...

The Claymore is not a grenade, you cant equip it in the Accessory slot. The Claymore is like a Sword or a Pistol or a Psi Amp. I have no idea what effects swapping those would do, but knowing XCOM just swapping those slots without any other changes will break the game.

Just a thought, can't you give Reapers a Claymore based Grenade Slot, that would free up their secondary for a pistol.

It would but removing the psi amp might cause other problems, try it.

V2.0 now supports custom pistol names templates via CONFIG file.

I just saw that the Chosen Pistol already has partial abilities inside it. I kept my code but cleaned it up, its much more presentable now. It also prevents other mods from adding the same abilities and then having duplicates, but thanks for that.

Hi ADVENT Avenger
just a suggestion to cleanup the code. To prevent duplicates when adding abilities you can do

if (CurrentWeapon.Abilities.Find('PistolStandardShot') == INDEX_NONE)
{
CurrentWeapon.Abilities.AddItem('PistolStandardShot');
}

the rest of the abilities can be left untouched.