Sorry, I did not say. Cruisers appeared very goddamn fast for me, like after 3 landing ships(on multiple continents) and during the terror I did have plasma weapons and was researching buzzard armor(have entire team in wolf) as it was the only research topic left. Hm, I never actually got to research the tier 3. Could I have missed something or was unlucky enough not to get the artifacts needed? I did have advanced ballistics but they did not really help, except that gatling(Korhang). I will reinstall the mod to make sure nothing is missing and start again to see if I missed something.