Improved Boarding Difficulty

This mod tweaks the "Stage III Assault" boarding phase, defending marine crew will now deal damage to attacking marines not only based on their combined skill but also based on the following things:

- Hull Percentage % of the ship being boarded.

- N° Number of 'operational' turrets ##

- N° Number of forward mounted 'operational' weapons ## (for destroyers or Asgard ect..)

This forces the player to reduce the target hull significantly and destroy every turret and weapon before attempting to board it in order to succeed, especially with recruit marines or weak veterans. This mod also affects marines skill experience, they will level up to elite faster than vanilla for every successful board.

As a result, the Asgard (CoH dlc) and the Raptor (SV dlc) are much more harder to successfuly board now.

Raptor: has ALOT of turrets, requires strategic planning and will take longer than usual coz of the N° of turrets to destroy.

Asgard: the main XL weapon is not destroyble, this means you will need higher tier marines to successfuly board it (at least marines with 3 stars on boarding and morale) and possibly making some of the defending crew bail before boarding it.

##WARNING##: Save the game before boarding the Asgard, as balancing of the mod is not final yet but easily adjustable.

#Combined skill: Is a value from 0 to 100 depending on the marine boarding and morale stars.

Differences with Vanilla & Mod Tests Results:

Vanilla: each defending marine deals damage based on combined skill, es. A marine with 2 stars in boarding and 2 stars in morale deals 40 dmg.

Mod: A marine with 2 stars in boarding and 2 stars in morale deals 40 dmg + 5 dmg (if hull % of ship is 20%) or 25 dmg (if hull is 100%) ect.. + 5 dmg for each 'operational' turret + 20 dmg for each 'operational' weapon.

Test Results:

(Boarded Ship: Osaka) Test#1: 75 attacking recruit marines with combined skill of 10 - AGAINST - 12 defending veteran marines with combined skill of 40 -- Ship hull% down to 20% -- 1 turret alive and 0 weapons.

Boarding Failed, killed some service crew and 4-6 of those veterans.

(Boarded Ship: Osaka) Test#2: 75 attacking recruit marines with combined skill of 10   - AGAINST -  12  defending veteran marines with combined skill of 40 -- Ship hull% down to 20% -- 0 turrets and weapons alive.

Boarding Success, lost 37 of my recruits.

(Boarded Ship: Osaka) Test#3: 75 attacking weak veteran marines with combined skill of 25  - AGAINST - 12 defending veteran marines with combined skill of 40 -- Ship hull% down to 20% -- 0 turrets a