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Additional Balanced Ship Sections

A simple mod which creates variants of existing ship sections to provide more combinations and allow for more use of weapons like strike craft in a balanced manner. It uses only vanilla assets and as such is very lightweight. If you are coming back to vanilla shipbuilding from NSC3 this mod may be a good middle ground as it was for me.

This mod does overwrites all existing vanilla sections and creates new variants based off of them that are reasonably balanced. Generally the weapon slot formula (1 L = 2 M = 4 S, etc.) is used to help determine new section layouts. It is not compatible with any mod that overwrites ship sections, as this one does so to add the additional sections.

Frigates
Destroyers
Cruisers
Battleships
Titans
Juggernauts

The general idea behind many of these new sections was to give more variety and help balance out certain play styles given how potent biological ships can be in this regard:

Frigates: A simple addition of a point defense option to give such frigate fleets a way to counter missiles and/or strike craft on their own if desired.

Destroyers: Even greater variety than before, including a hanger bow to allow for early light carriers similar to the artillery bow. The assault sections are designed to mount large amounts of small weapons to counter corvette swarms.

Cruisers: Truly now a jack of all trades, an large amount of sections of all three components of the cruiser allow for custom built cruisers for all occasions. In particular cruisers designed to be carriers get a leg up to help compensate for the relative power that comes with the harbinger's powerful strike craft coming online at a similar time in the game.

Battleships: Similarly to the cruiser, you now have access to a wider variety of sections that give more potential choices. Battleships can become heavy carriers actually worthy of the title, a brawler designed to take on mixed fleets of small and large ships, a classic artillery platform, or a mix of any of them at once.

Titans: Ever wonder why we never got the option to have a titan with massed strike craft? Me too, but now you can turn what was an extremely expensive artillery piece with a boost into a proper super carrier to lead your strike force. Send out a mass of strike craft to blot out the local star(s) with their power, or rely on the original long range sniping power through artillery barrages.

Juggernauts: A simple option of the secondary weapons for your juggernaut to defend itself with alongside strike craft. You can choose one that leans into the carrier role more, or one with able to punch down cruisers with a medium weapon battery.

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