Long-Range Weapons is a technology in the Final Frontier mod for Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword.
Strategy[]
Long-Range Weapons allows the construction of the very powerful Battleship and Star System-capturing Invasion Ship Units. It also allows the creation of the Police Agency Building, which reduces War Weariness, Star System Maintenance costs and increases Espionage investment.
Civilopedia entry[]
Advancements in predictive machinery greatly increased the feasible range of modern weaponry. To combat the growing rise in indirect Carrier-based warfare, extended-range Battleships took to the stars, giving the Capital ships a tactical advantage for the first time in many years. The application of intuitive computers to smaller arms had a significantly longer development time, but once sufficiently encapsulated intuitive computers were designed, new Invasion Ships quickly adopted the machines. And in the domestic realm, intuitive computers made the reasonable enforcement of law and order a job capable of being handled by a single agency, creating the first, truly effective IC-guided Policy Agencies in the universe.