Stellaris: Better Combat

Stellaris Better Combat keeps the flavor of regular Stellaris but makes combat more interesting based on classic RTS elements. Now updated for 3. 14! Please see the patch notes for more details. *** By request, there is a special spinoff from this: Tactical Combat Computers - This is very lightweight and keeps only the special tactical computers with no other aspects of the SBC. By its lightweight nature, it should be very compatible with other mods. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3134459612 **** Some key elements of this mod: 1 - New "Tactician" computer available as a starting technology that allows the player to issue real-time commands during combat. 2 - Useful Destroyers, Cruisers, and small weapons. Large and XL weapons now perform poorly against smaller ship types. Primarily, this is done by reducing tracking on large weapons and increasing evasion on Destroyers and Cruisers. (Specifically, tracking bonuses are now multiplicative instead of additive; this means that a XL weapon with zero tracking will never have more than zero tracking.) A correctly configured Corvette can be almost invulnerable to L and XL weapons. 3 - More ship sections and loadout variety - such as XL Cruisers, 3P Corvette, or a 16G Titan Bow! 4 - Ship Specializations. This optional component can greatly change a ship's role. For example, Aegis gives a bonus to shields, armor, and shield regeneration, but a penalty to firing rate. 5 - New weapons, such as short range Large and XL weapons (Heavy Autocannons and Photon Cannons for example). There are also new auxiliary slot items, such as the Improved Rangefinder (range bonus) or Shield Regenerator (big shield recharge bonus for military stations only). Many particle effects are new and unique. 6 - New Defense Stations and Fortresses (medium and large military stations). 7 - Combat modifiers that increase the duration of battles (reduction in movement speed, firing rate, and damage). 8 - Many other minor changes