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Originally posted by desdinova:
[QB]i select the organic racial trait and make a priority of researching organic technology for the organic armor and organic weapons. i have noticed that the organic weapons are better than the initial weapons the ai uses (better range and damage.) the advantage from the organic armor and weapons is enough to let me lag behind on ship size. i can remain 1-2 sizes smaller and still win in combat initially. after that i try to get the monolith.[QB]

Actually, DUC Vs are cheaper than Organic Weapons, and stronger than most levels of them.

Depleted Uranium Cannon V (Projectile Weapons 5)
Tonnage Space Taken := 30
Weapon Damage At Rng := 40 40 40 40 40 0

Hyper - Plasma Bolt III (Organic Weapons 6)
Tonnage Space Taken := 30
Weapon Damage At Rng := 40 35 30 30 30 25 0

Hyper - Plasma Bolt III (Organic Weapons 8)
Tonnage Space Taken := 30
Weapon Damage At Rng := 45 40 35 35 35 30 25 0

Lightning Ray I (Organic Weapons 4)
Tonnage Space Taken := 20
Weapon Damage At Rng := 30 30 20 20 10 10 0

Lightning Ray I (Organic Weapons 6)
Tonnage Space Taken := 20
Weapon Damage At Rng := 40 40 30 30 20 20 10 10 0

Phased - Polaron Beam V (Phased Energy Weapons 5)
Tonnage Space Taken := 30
Weapon Damage At Rng := 60 55 55 55 50 50 0

Organic Weapons costs a lot more to research than Projectile Weapons and Phased Energy Weapons (even with Physics 2 as a tech req).

Plasma Charges are almost never better than DUCs, except with a little more range, but much less damage. Electric Discharges (for much more research) are stronger at short range, but much weaker at longer ranges. Then when you through in the PPBs, which cost fewer research points than Organic Weapons 5 or so, the Organic weapons can't even compare to them. Personally, I never research Organic Weapons past level 3, for the Troop EDs. Sure they cost organics instead of Minerals, and that lowers build time of the ship by a turn. But they are much weaker in combat. To me, this isn't worth.