Tier 3 defensive (backpack) or offensive (weapon) upgrades are on par with experimantals. So your level 3 gatling was balanced against the beam style weapon systems commonly found on experimentals. That said its really good at taking them out especially since the Gatling/Beam tree is designed for single target kills while the Cannon/Artillary tree is designed for AoE army munching
If you want the hard numbers on the settings used in this mod I could dig up the old balancing spreadsheet... I believe its still posted somewhere within the 60 page thread for the project on the GPG forums Statistics: Posted by ExavierMacbeth — 12 Oct 2012, 16:14
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