Alpha Strike - Enhanced Walkers

Description

Alpha Strike allows you to twin-link any pair of non-identical weapons equipped on a medium walker to be fired in one action, in the same way that medium walkers can fire pairs of identical weapons together in the base game.

Flamethrower + Swarm Missile Launcher

Minigun + Autocannon

Laser Lance + ATGM

This can be expanded to tri-links and quad-links with the Weapon Hardpoint accessory.

Death From Above grants an alternate skill to the walker jet pack accessory which sacrifices 20% of the walker's health and armour for a devastating attack around the landing tile.

Main features

Alpha Strike - Range

The maximum range of an alpha strike is determined by the lower maximum range of the two equipped weapons.

E.g a Heavy Flamethrower (max range 5) twinned with an M6 CMG (max range 10) will give you an alpha strike with a max range of 5.

The minimum range of an alpha strike is determined by the higher minimum range of the two equipped weapons.

E.g A Rocket Organ (min range 8) twinned with an Autocannon (min range 2) will give you an alpha strike with a minimum range of 8.

Alpha Strike - AP

The action point cost of an alpha strike is determined by the higher AP cost of the two equipped weapons.

E.g A Mounted Chaingun (20AP to fire) twinned with a Rocket Launcher (60AP to fire) will give you an alpha strike that costs 60AP.

Death From Above

The DFA skill shares a pool of 6 uses with the vanilla jet pack. Using DFA removes scatter from the jump ie you always land where you click. A stomp attack is applied in an AoE to the 8 tiles surrounding where you land, roughly equivalent in power to a direct hit from a Short Barreled Tank Gun on every tile. The walker takes a 20% hit to their HP and armour durability pulling this off.

Weapon Hardpoints

An accessory that lets medium walkers take third and fourth medium weapons, lets light walkers twin-link light weapons, and lets pirate trucks carry a light weapon along with troops (requires Mount Up)

An accessory that grants a 50% higher maximum heat to vehicles.

Misc

Unlike vanilla twin-linking, you can still choose to shoot each weapon individually.

Energy weapons overheating, weapons with a jam chance malfunctioning, and weapons running out of ammo individually have all been tested and can degrade an alpha strike (e.g when only one weapon remains able to fire).

The ATGM will use it's direct-fire mode when alpha striking. The Minigun will use it's salvo, not it's strafe mode.

There is a 0. 1 second delay between linkeded weapons beginning to fire. In the loadout screen, the weapon in the top slot is the one that fires first. This is vanilla twin-linking behavior, and is why twinned autocannons sound so good (BRRRT). With pairing different weapons, this now has small balance implications. You can put an armour-shredding weapon in the top slot to use the tiny 0. 1s headstart this grants to allow the weapon in the bottom slot a better chance of penetrating armour.

Yes, this works with the Ground Radar "weapon". Scan every time you shoot!

Death From Above can be buffed by the following perks: Roadkill, Grind Down, Fury, Lancer, Spartan Duty, Fragmentation, Lucky Shot, Tankbuster, Divine Intervention, Short Squeeze, and probably some I haven't specifically tested. Some of these let it hit nice breakpoints against large aliens and vehicles. It's also capable of critting.

Rocket Organs and Swarm Airburst Launchers both have severely broken twin links in vanilla, Alpha Strike fixes both.

The more weapons take part in an alpha strike, the more of an accuracy penalty is applied. 15% for two, 30% for three, 45% for four.

Requirements

• []MelonLoader[/]

Installation instructions

1. Get the Menace Mod Manager.

2. Make sure MelonLoader and Modpackloader are up to date at the top of the MMM window.

3. Click Install Mod and select the Alpha Strike zip.

My Other Mods

SSRS - Squad Support Rifle System

Shrike - Custom Skybot Squad Leader

CRAC - Compact Rotary Assault Cannon

Mount Up - Enhanced Troop Transports

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