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armour-piercing incendiary rounds.

     Also, just got the engineering plans for explosive cartridges for the combat shotgun and blunderbuss, so both are gonna get a workout in the near future.

     Five large ships from the Church of Scientology Sirius clustered around the South Pole, all five of my craft, (three fighters, two troopships), shadowed their every move, the first one landed and my A-team were on them in a heart beat.  I'm about to start the ground battle, and as all ships are Large or Extra-Large, every fight is gonna be close to a war.
     Hyperwave decoder said they were on a 'Secret Base' mission, so I don't know whether they are setting one up, or doing a supply run to a pre-existing one.  None of my ships down there have spotted a base, so ... I dunno.
     These fleet battles a very hard on any difficulty, and take quite some time - my last experience with them was over an hour for each battle - but, each battle is worth something in the order of 5-8 million dollars of excess crap that I do not have storage space for, so much plastasteel and nuclear fuel gets sold.  The problem is the troops I have at the moment, the A-team is full of hardened veterans, my B-team has only two out of ten veterans, I will have to do something about that.  Also, when these fleets turn up, I never shoot a cannon at the craft with the interceptors, just shadow them until they land - they always do.

     It is a very nice gun, the auto option on the bottom is great as well, not often over 100%, but my Gal was kneeling and high rank.  She can hit anything almost anywhere on the map, with a two shot burst.  But, as I said, you need to have two specific, obsolete weapons to make it, I sold off all of one and RAEGD when I discovered the error in judgement.  Recently, one of the worst weapons you can buy from the blackmarket has become Lord of Death with a new form of ammo - it is glorious.    There are so many damned weapons though, I have 15 brainers, in teams of three, researching everything possible, discovering a new weapon at roughly one a week.  Custom Shooty Gun, (yes, seriously), is a brilliant upgrade of two mediocre weapons - which I have only made four of because one compnonent seems quite rare - and the Custom Sniping Gun, again, I only have three because the Sniper Gun is rare.  I don't remember the research chain, but I think it started with:
                   1: Assault Pistol
                   2: Smart Pistol
                   3: Various Win Buttons
                   4: ?
                   5: Profit.