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Originally posted by laiocfar@Jan 21 2006, 03:31 AM
Avalanche:
100 damage
100% accuracy
20 sec to reload
60 km range
Plasma Beam or Plasma cannon:
140 dam
140% acc
6 s reload
52 km range
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But you can only have 3 avalanche missiles per weapons pod while plasma cannon is unlimited, so an interceptor with two avalanche launchers has 6 missiles, thats a max 600 damage and due to reload speed thats 3 volleys every 20 seconds.
Plasma Cannon while it has a smaller range, it has unlimited ammo and fires every 6 seconds as well as doing 40 more damage and being far more accurate. When you have a plasma cannon the only UFO that out-ranges that is the Alien Battleship, and that has a range of 65km so it can hit avalanche wielding interceptors easily, if you use plasma cannons you have more chance of taking it down quicker, the only drawback is that plasma cannons are time consuming to make and can be expensive to replace while avalanches are cheap and able to buy in bulk.