For example, my making the thrown grenades only hit 5 squares in a '+' shape was almost surely not a good representation of what IRL grenades would actually do. I didn't mean to base balancing discussion based on anything having do with real life, just what creates good tactical play within the game. Granted, those are frag grenades, so they don't work exactly well agaisnt cover. Standart russian grenade, F-1, has injury radius of 30 meters, with safe distance of 280 meters. Standart USA grenade, M67, has injury radius of 15 meters, with safe distance of 250 meters.

Originally posted by Wintermute:Well, since you started talking about IRL grenades: Sometimes more limited capabilities creates richer tactical gameplay, IMO. Overall, the balancing tends towards cranking everything to 11 with OP capabilities on both sides. At one point I think I modded them to only hit five squares in a plus-sign shape (which got bigger with the Grenade launchers). I recall thinking the radius on the assorted grenades was too high as well (I didn't mind the huge radius on the AOE grenades). It was just way too obvious of a move to do at the outset of a turn and was immersion killing to have a stone wall destroyed but with the guy behind it then just standing out in the open - from a fragmentation grenade? It felt like a Bugs Bunny gimmick and made the AOE grenades seem weak.

ini edits that degraded cover damage - though I left Plasma grenades as being respectable cover destroyers, though not as good as in Vanilla). Yeah, the guaranteed cover destruction of the Grenades was extremely cheesy and something I modded out pretty early when I was playing (with my own manual.

Nerf grenade launcher mod