Mod Packers - Research File Issues - EA & Toron

[Alpha Kodiak]

I must be missing something on troop weapons. I never research them. The Ground Cannon III has damage of 20 20. The small DUC III has damage of 15 15. The DUC has applications on fighters (and the tech has probably already been researched anyway), while the ground cannon is only useful for troops. Why spend the research to get ground cannons, when the the DUC is nearly as effective and is useful in other ways? In my style of play, the only time troops are used is when I already have a race against the ropes and I can bring in an overwhelming force of troops armed with DUCs and small rocket pods, and they have no difficulty wasting the resistance that can be mustered by the local militia.