Well, effects are sort of take-it-or-leave-it. The only 2 effects that have one missile are the Vasari Assailant's phase missiles, and the Ogrov's torpedo.

How exactly do you want the nuclear missile firing to go? Meaning, does the ship *only* launch them or is it an ability added on to the basic Javelis? In the first case, Cluster Warheads is the way to go and you just need to change the ship's weapon effect. But it sounds like that's what you don't want.. In the second case, abilities can use particle travel effects.

For example, from the Kol's AbilityGaussBlast:

weaponEffectsDef
 weaponType "Projectile"
 burstCount 1
 burstDelay 0.000000
 muzzleEffectName "CapitalAbility_GaussBlastLaunch"
 muzzleSoundMinRespawnTime 0.100000
 muzzleSounds
  soundCount 1
  sound "WEAPON_GENERICFIRE"
 hitEffectName "CapitalAbility_GaussBlastHit"
 hitHullEffectSounds
  soundCount 1
  sound ""
 hitShieldsEffectSounds
  soundCount 1
  sound ""
 projectileTravelEffectName "CapitalAbility_GaussBlastTravel"

(notice the hasWeaponEffects TRUE a little bit above that).

In theory, you should be able to use the weapon effect from the Ogrov, for example, in the ability file and then have your buffs do the dirty.

Well yeah, if you're using the nukes as a second "weapon" then you can't really do that.

What I don't understand is why you don't just make a brand new ability that uses whatever weapon effect you want, and then just have it do AoE damage around the target?

Thanks viper, I'll give it a look.  @ Annatar I tried, I couldnt make it work so I figured taking bits from other abilities would work.  Unfortunately I dont know quite enough bout how the game works to make a whole new ability from scratch and have it include the aspects I want it to.  Ill keep tryin tho. 

Well, trying to cannibalize from other abilities without understanding how it all works isn't going to get you very far, as you've seen Doing abilities is the trickiest thing for Sins modding.

Why don't you start over, using Radiation Bomb as EvilTesla suggested as a base, but when you run into trouble post here and myself and others can help you out. I thought of telling you exactly what to do to change it into what you want, but I'd rather help you do it than do it for you

Ok, I think I got it.  Just one question: everything seems to be working the way I want it to except for the fact that the damage shows up on the infocard for the ability twice.  Any idea whats causing that?  I'll post the files if needed, theyre fairly large.

Is it possible to have an ability that targets both the spawning ship and a specific target ship?  Im trying to create an ability that captures an enemy ship and destroys the ship that casts the ability but I cant figure out how to apply one buff to the origin ship and another to the target.