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Adordenances

Updated version of my old "Araxiel's Arty Upgrades for SPs" mod.

Title name is a portmanteau pun on "Adoration" and "Ordnance".

Compatible with Kaiserreich.

Araxiel's Arty Upgrades for SPs

Slightly updated, but old description:

This little mod gives all Self-Propelled Guns the same bonus that towed artillery receives from the artillery tech tree, for extra immersion, realism and historical accuracy.

I always found it surprising that improvements in artillery technology does not improve self-propelled artillery, thus rendering it useless if you decide to use self-propelled artillery. And while I understand that artillery howitzers and self-propelled guns are not the same, they are still very similar in many advancements.

Good example of guns that were both used as towed-variant and mounted in tanks would be the German 7.5 cm Pak 40[en.wikipedia.org], used in both the Panther and on it's own carriage or the British QF 17-pounder[en.wikipedia.org], used on it's own carriage and as armament of the Sherman Firefly and the Achilles among others. Or how the US M101 howitzer[en.wikipedia.org] was used as field howitzer and was also the armament employed in the M7 Priest. Thus, if you improve one of these guns, you should also be able to improve the vehicles those guns are mounted on.

• Starting from around 1940, most technologies in the artillery tech-tree (and two in the Superior Firepower doctrine) will also improve their relevant self-propelled variants of all types; e.g. AA tech improves light self-propelled AA, medium SPAA, heavy SPAA, super-heavy SPAA and Modern SPAA.

I tried to make it balanced by using slightly downgraded stats that the towed artillery get; you can explain it as the gun being improved, but the improvements not being as noticeable or convertible for the vehicle-mounted variant. Is it actually balanced? I don't know. I did a playthrough with it and it seemed to be okay. But I might adjust the stats slightly if I feel it's too unbalanced later down the line.

One of my aims of all my mods is always as much compatibility as possible.

I tried everything in my power to make it compatible with other mods, patches and such, but I could only get so far. At the very least, this mod is only incompatible with other mods that edit the artillery tech-tree and that change anything for the self-propelled gun units, but it is compatible with every other type of mod.
Edited Files:

• common\technologies\artillery.txt
  
• common\units\equipment\tank_heavy.txt
  
• common\units\equipment\tank_light.txt
  
• common\units\equipment\tank_medium.txt
  
• common\units\equipment\tank_modern.txt

This mod is not ironman compatible.

• I'll probably make some better/proper icons for the sp categories. V1.3.2 Custom Icons added