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.
Weapon Analysis 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), the cases presented on this page are strictly the opinion of the respective author(s).
Care has been taken to provide facts and statistics where appropriate but it is up to the reader to decide how to use make use of this information.
Weapon Debates
UFO
- •Best Starting Weapons (EU)
- •Skipping Laser Weapons
- •Skipping Plasma Weapons
- •Rifle vs Pistol
- •Heavy Cannon vs Auto Cannon
- •Rifle vs Laser Pistol
- •Laser Pistol vs All Predecessors
- •Laser Rifle vs All Predecessors
- •Laser Rifle vs Laser Pistol
- •Laser Rifle vs Heavy Plasma
- •Heavy Laser vs Heavy Plasma
- •Heavy Laser vs Heavy Cannon
TFTD
- •Best Starting Weapons (TFTD)
- •Skipping Gauss Weapons
- •Skipping Sonic Weapons
- •Sonic Pistol vs Heavy Gauss
- •Sonic Pistol vs Sonic Blasta Rifle
- •Sonic Cannon vs Displacer/Sonic
- •Gas Cannon vs Torpedo Launcher
General Discussions
Cross Game Discussions
- •Pistol vs Dart Gun
- •Heavy Cannon vs Gas Cannon
- •Auto Cannon vs Hydro-Jet Cannon
- •Heavy Plasma vs Sonic Cannon
Quantitative Analysis
Accuracy
Firepower
- Firepower Tables
- File:Firepower.xls
- Avg TUs per Kill Rankings, vs Targets (using this kill model)
- Kill Rankings for Tanks