Weapon Analysis

This section is intended as a place to collate articles or discussions where the merits of the various weapons are gauged or compared.

The scope of the articles can span between UFO and TFTD and can cover any weapons in either game. This includes craft/UFO weapons, hand held weapons or tank turrets/terror unit weapons.

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Weapon Debates

Best Starting Weapons (EU)

Rifle vs Pistol

Heavy Cannon vs Auto Cannon

Rifle vs Laser Pistol

Heavy Cannon vs Laser Pistol

Laser Rifle vs Heavy Plasma

Best Starting Weapons (TFTD)

Sonic Pistol vs Heavy Gauss

Sonic Pistol vs Sonic Blasta Rifle

Quantitative Analysis

Accuracy

• User_talk:Bomb_Bloke#Firing_accuracy
• Firing Accuracy Testing

Firepower

• Firepower Tables
• File:Firepower.xls
• Avg TUs per Kill Rankings, vs Targets (using this kill model)
  • Sectoid
  • Floater
  • Cyberdisc
  • Reaper
  • Muton
  • Celatid
  • Silacoid
  • Snakeman
  • Chryssalid
  • Zombie
  • Ethereal
  • Sectopod
• Kill Rankings for Tanks

Other Discussions

• Accuracy vs TU Efficiency
• Talk:Launcher Weapons

Disclaimer

Though Ufopaedia.org attempts to be factual in its core articles (note that some artistic license may be taken in the non-essential descriptions to add flavour), the cases presented on this page are the opinions of the author(s).

Care has been taken to provide facts and statistics where ever appropriate to back the arguments, but it is up to the reader to decide how to use make use of this information.