User:Hordes/Tactics

Armament

Generalist

• Assault rifles are perfect for open engagements, with good damage, above-average range, and high accuracy. Strong for repelling against breachers and sappers, good overall. Skill friendly.
• Heavy SMGs are very skill friendly, close-medium ranged weapons. Great damage and accuracy up close, remaining decent at longer distances.
• Charge rifles are high-tech versions of assault rifles. Stronger and with high AP, but with shorter range and less accuracy. Powerful weapon in its own right, if not as flexible. Quite expensive.

Specialist - Firearms

• Chain shotguns are one of the strongest weapons, but with pitiful range. Perfect for infestations and drop pod raids.
• Miniguns fire a massive 25-shot burst. High cost, widly inaccurate, and with a huge cooldown cycle, miniguns are dedicated to crowd-control in stationary setups. (Missed shots can hit other enemies)
• LMGs are lighter miniguns, with a 6-shot burst. Can stagger humans, but lower single-target DPS than general options. Decent crowd-control and support weapon.
• Sniper rifles have the highest range in the game, but low firerate. Useful for picking off sieges, lone centipedes, etc. Very reliant on shooting skill.
• Charge lances have massive per-shot damage and high AP. However, actual damage output is rather low. This makes it a niche weapon, despite its cost and tech level.

Specialist - Explosives
All explosives do not rely on Shooting skill, Manipulation, etc., though are affected by Aiming Time.

• EMP grenades are invaluable against mechanoids and turrets, stunning them for 2,200 ticks (36.67 secs).
• Smoke launchers prevent turrets from locking on completely. Accuracy penalty for any shooter, player or enemy, so can support melee fighters.
• Frag grenades are unwieldy, but can destroy buildings rapidly. Difficult to use against mobile targets; decent against crowds when thrown in an alley.
• Doomsday rocket launchers are single-use, but extremely devastating. They cause a massive explosion, able to outright end the largest humanoid raids. Watch for the long warmup.
  • Similar advice applies to triple rocket launchers, orbital bombardment targeters, and orbital power beam targeters.

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AD HOC weapon testing:

• Shooting 10, no traits, no health conditions.
• Time to kill centipedes at range X when they are held in place by a nonviolent pawn.
• Speed *2. Non-professional timing. All numbers rounded to seconds. 6Expect numbers to be off by 1-2 seconds.

Range: 22 Shooting: 10

Excellent LMG NO PRECEPT:

• 46s / 59s / 63s / 72s / 81s
• 60s / 63s / 68s / 71s / 74s

Excellent AR NO PRECEPT:

• 47s / 48s / 52s / 58s / 60s
• 43s / 43s / 49s / 51s / 51s