Weapons

1. Which weapons to use after research is done:

In regard to weapons, you will have to remember that everyone of your designs must be focussed when it comes to weapons. That means that if you want to put Homing Black Holes and Distortion Blasters on your ships, you should make one design for the Homing Black Holes and another for the Distortion Blasters.

The main level 5 weapons are as follows:

  • Homing Black Hole (HBH) - This is the one most powerful weapon in ArchSpace. It delivers the most payload in one shot then any other weapon, and often shooting first with this weapon means annhiliation of ((0.5~0.75)*x where x is number of ships in your fleet firing) enemy dooms. Needless to say this weapon should be on most of your dooms.

  • Distortion Blaster (DB) - This is quite a powerful weapon and wreaks absolute havoc if set upon a lot of small ships. It has one of the fastest firing rates, and is most dangerous when in the hands of a Xesperado commie that has Ballistic Expert and Artifact Cooling Engine for its special Abilities. Also nicely combined with DNA poison replicator for the Targoid commies. Its ideal use is as clean up crew after initial shots of HBH have been fired. However, it should be used at approriate ratios of something like 1:6 or 1:5 to your other HBH ships, which should be your main armada, upfront. Preferably make your DB dooms stay far behind your main fleet.

  • Nahodoom Ray Launcher (NRL) - To the lucky few this is the weapon of that will anhhilate the worlds and scour your enemies :) It does approximately half the damage of HBH, but it shoots eight times as often. Having this weapon as your clean up crew is most important, if you have it. Its best used in ratio of 3:4 or 4:3 to your other doom fleets. Leave em behind your dooms, so that your armada will be most effective.

    • Only these three weapons are really worth using for any race. Some psychic races may consider Psychic Weapons:

  • Psi Blaster is useful early on, but their effects are useless in most situations. If your opponent is evil, then it may yet prove to have some use. I don't know yet, do experiment and report your findings.

  • Psi Storm Launcher has been changed into a faster firing weapon. It will fire roughly once per 3 shots of Distortion blaster and do 40% less damage. However it has nearly 100% more attack rate, can fit 25% more of it on a ship and has farther range, all advantages, but IMHO still too weak a weapon.

    2. Which weapons to use during research:

    Now there are a few things that you might want to use early on in the start. When you abosolutely have nothing but Nuclear Missles, Rail Guns and Lasers, you should build a few destroyers (not to much) with Nukes, they will be your meat shields in the coming battles. If you are a Psi race, use Psi Blaster. After which you wish to get Fusion Missles. These are far more effective then other weapons. Usually, early on battles are all decided in the first volley and there are no ships left standing to take advantage of the faster weapons like Gatling Rail Gun.

    Next comes Anti-Matter Missle. It is an improvement over your Fusion Missles in nearly every way, so you want it. Equip it and start using it, and when you get Osscillation of Dissonance (OoD), you may want to use that on some of your capitol ships, but not too much, try to keep to a minimum.

    Next step in the evolution of warfare comes the Nova Torpedo (NT), its even better then your Anti-Matter Missles, so start upgrading your ships (make ships with NT and destroy earlier ships or send them out on Strategetic Suicide Missions). Do not use Osscilation of Dissonance anymore, as it is weaker then Nova Torpedo!

    Finally before you get Distortion Blaster and Homing Black Holes, you get Timewake Homing Missles. These should be used for a day or two until you finally research Reverse Entropy.

    These are basically all the weapons that you will need.

    • Weapons Table

    Name Type Level Dice Type AR Speed Cooling Angle Range Size Prerequisite Effects
    Laser Beam 1 2 4 100 1000 50 60 1000 25 Laser  
    Nuclear Missile Missile 1 5 5 100 50 200 180 1500 18 Nuclear Power  
    Rail Gun Projectile 1 2 4 50 200 30 60 800 30 Quantum Physics Shield Piercing +100
    Plasma Beam Beam 2 3 4 120 1000 70 60 1000 28 Plasma Mechanics Shield Overheat
    Additional Damage to Bio Armor +100%
    Crystal Laser Beam 2 4 4 120 1000 60 60 1000 30 Crystal Manipulation  
    Fusion Missile Missile 2 10 10 120 50 300 180 1500 33 Fusion Power  
    Gatling Rail Gun Projectile 2 3 4 50 200 17 60 800 50 Inertia Control Shield Piercing +100
    Mass Driver Projectile 2 4 5 60 200 50 60 800 32 Atomic Manipulation Shield Piercing +100
    Graviton Beam Beam 3 4 4 144 1000 55 60 1000 29 Gravity Control Shield Piercing +25
    Armor Piercing +25
    Psi Blaster Beam 3 4 4 144 1000 72 60 1000 35 Psionic Power PSI
    PSI Empower +100%
    Neutron Blaster Beam 3 5 5 144 1000 60 60 1000 38 Quark Manipulation Additional Damage to Bio Armor +100%
    Nova Torpedo Missile 3 15 15 144 50 400 180 1500 38 Novarization  
    Kamikaze Conscious Torpedo Missile 3 10 10 200 50 330 180 1500 30 Collective Unconsciousness  
    Death Spore Missile 3 7 7 144 50 280 180 1500 30 Artificial Life Additional Damage to Bio Armor +700%
    Gauss Cannon Projectile 3 5 5 83 200 35 60 800 51 Matter Compression Shield Piercing +100,
    Armor Piercing +25
    Phasor Beam 4 5 4 173 1000 40 60 1000 36 Singularity Physics Shield Piercing +50
    Tachyon Beam Beam 4 5 5 173 1000 54 60 1000 40 Probability Mechanics  
    Anti-Matter Missile Missile 4 20 20 172 50 480 180 1500 40 Anti-Matter Power  
    Reflexium Missile Missile 4 15 15 172 50 355 180 1500 40 Artificial Singularity Shield Distortion +30
    Psionic Pulse Shocker Missile 4 13 10 172 50 300 180 1500 32 Psionic : Energy PSI
    Anti-Matter Cannon Projectile 4 6 6 90 200 30 60 800 50 Nanoscale Robot Shield Piercing +100
    Autofire Gauss Cannon Projectile 4 5 5 90 200 17 60 800 68 Timespace Manipulation Shield Piercing +100
    Armor Piercing +25
    Oscillation of Dissonance Beam 5 7 7 200 1000 70 60 1000 50 Universal Communication Protocol Armor Piercing +100
    Psi Storm Launcher Beam 5 5 5 200 1000 50 60 1000 38 Psionic : Matter PSI
    Time-Wake Homing Missile Missile 5 15 17 250 50 375 180 1500 50 Timespace Manipulation Shield Distortion +65
    Armor Piercing +25
    Homing Black Hole Missile 5 40 31 250 50 500 180 1500 100 Reverse Entropy  
    Distortion Blaster Projectile 5 10 10 120 200 31 60 800 100 Dimension Manipulation Shield Piercing +100
    Armor Piercing +25
    Additional Damage to Bio Armor -50%

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