Aircraft Firepower Table
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Armament | Cost $000s |
$Shot | Average Damage |
Range (km) |
Accuracy | Reload Time (s) |
Shots | Fire- power |
$ / Fire- power |
Payload | $ / Payload |
Ammo $Rate |
Ammo $/Dmg |
Cannon | $30 | $25 | 10 | 10 | 25% | 2 | 200 | 75 | $400 | 500 | $60 | $744 | $10 |
Stingray | $16 | $3,000 | 70 | 30 | 70% | 15 | 6 | 196 | $82 | 294 | $54 | $12,000 | $61 |
Avalanche | $17 | $9,000 | 100 | 60 | 80% | 20 | 3 | 240 | $71 | 240 | $71 | $27,000 | $113 |
Laser Cannon | $211 | $0 | 70 | 21 | 35% | 4 | 99 | 368 | $574 | 2426 | $87 | $0 | $0 |
Laser Cannon (XCU) | $283 | $0 | 70 | 21 | 35% | 4 | 99 | 368 | $770 | 2426 | $117 | $0 | $0 |
Plasma Beam | $319 | $0 | 140 | 52 | 50% | 6 | 100 | 700 | $456 | 7000 | $46 | $0 | $0 |
Plasma Beam (XCU) | $698 | $0 | 140 | 52 | 50% | 6 | 100 | 700 | $997 | 7000 | $100 | $0 | $0 |
Fusion Ball Launcher | $281 | $69,000 | 230 | 65 | 100% | 25 | 2 | 460 | $611 | 460 | $611 | $138,000 | $300 |
Key:
- Cost is for the weapon system alone, not including the aircraft, hangar and any Elerium to operate it
- Firepower = average damage rate dealt per 60s (or until ammo exhausted)
- $/Firepower = cost of the weapon system per unit of Firepower
- Payload = total average damage dealt if entire ammo load can be fired
- $/Payload = cost of the weapon system per unit of Payload
- $/Ammo rate = cost of ammo expended per 60s (same time frame as Firepower measurement)
- $Ammo/Dmg = cost of ammo expended per unit of average damage dealt
Notes:
- Costs are the higher of: sale price (i.e. opportunity cost) or complete manufacturing cost from "XCOM_Profits.xls"
- Damage, cost etc listed here is per single weapon; typically they will be mounted in pairs.
- Accuracy figures differ from in-game UFOPaedia but are from code inspection (UFOPaedia.org)
- Apparently the combat mode (Cautious etc) affects the firing rate. This is not modelled here.
- "Last shot misses" bug is not modelled here; assumes craft is Aggressive or switches to Aggressive for last shot
Observations & Conclusions:
- With the conventional weapons, there is an elegant trade-off between range and firepower, vs payload.
- The Laser Cannon is costlier, but superior to, all the conventional weapons - except for range.
- Therefore the Laser Cannon is a good choice for an Aggressive, non-standoff engagement.
- The Fusion Ball Launcher is a cost-inefficient and relatively weak weapon, apart from its standoff range.
- Payload may be more important than Firepower in situations where an important large UFO target is attacked with limited resources.
- Fusion Ball Launcher and Avalanche are worst-impacted by the "last shot misses" bug.
- Of course the "cost" of downing a UFO will generally be small in proportion to the "value" of that downed UFO. Bean counters beware!
- It would be interesting (and easy) to calculate the cost of damage sustained by aircraft. It would then be possible to put an economic value on stand-off capability.