Vanguard Annihilator (Standalone)

Description

The "Vanguard Annihilator Prototype" is a toned down, non-burst variant of your known Obliterators, available at any place that offers Vanguard ship gear as a seperate item.

It gets unlocked together with the other Vanguard gear once you return from your "repair mission" on Tau Ceti and report to Tuala in New Atlantis.

This mod aims for a balanced coexistence with vanilla content and was made from basegame files (uptodate with Free Lanes). No other mods or DLCs are required to use it.

There are two languages available: english is uploaded as the main file, a german version will be uploaded as optional.

Installation instructions

Just move the "Vanguard Annihilator.esm" to your Data Folder where all of his .esm-friends live and add it to your loadorder in plugins.txt. If you are running other ship-building mods, this one probably goes underneath them. This mod does not alter any existing file though, you should be free to put it where ever it suits your loadorder.

As usual: backup your savegame, just in case. For a safe-ish removal of this mod please remove the Annihilators from your ships and save the game, then remove the .esm from your data folder and your plugins.txt.

Main features

Plain and simple: I did not like the Obliterators burst-fire too much, so i added a single-fire variant of them. The damage output was adjusted to not outclass the other, very similar ship weapons you would unlock later on in your playthrough.

Since the Annihilators are considered a prototype and slightly weaker than its bursty counterpart, you will get a 10% discount on the price.

(see pictures for stats incl a small bonus from some skill, 16. 5 hull damagee and 11 damage to shields would be the base values)

Requirements

No hard requirements, this ship weapon was made from basegame files as mentioned a bit above.

Shout outs

Shout out to the random guy on Discord, who mentioned a similar private conversion on a sidenote. I loved the idea and decided to add it to my vanilla-friendly arsenal aswell.

CHANGELOG

26. May 2026:

Not an actual update but another option for you to choose.

- v1. 0 is the "Baseversion"

 -> 16. 5 hull damage and 11 damage to shields

 -> 3. 3 shots per second