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EBF Barrage Attacks Create Craters

Evolving Battlefields (EBF) is a series of mods that bring more fluidity to the game's combat situations. These mods are intended to improve the immersion and lore aspects of the game while making as little impact on vanilla balance as possible. The AI may not be able to take full advantage of some mods, but shouldn't shift the balance significantly.


This mod changes weapons with the trait Barrage. This affects units like Thunderfire Canon, Stormsurge and Whirlwind. Now attacks will add a Crater feature that adds 1 point of movement cost and a 16% ranged damage reduction for units that don't have Flying, Skimming, Move Through Cover or Vehicle. These modifiers are roughly half of the effects of the Forest feature.

These changes to cover will be applied before the damage for the attack is resolved. I would prefer to delay it until after the attack, but those options do not reliably create craters.


There is an oddity with the Stormsurge's attack, preventing it from being modified by ext., so there may be conflicts with other mods that change Stormsurge.xml. The conflict will not cause any crashes but may prevent the attacks from creating craters.

This mod should affect weapons with the Barrage trait added by other mods.