Here are a couple of spreadsheets I made to get a feel for how weapon damage types and manufacturers are distributed along levels in the core games. The manufacturer sheet isn't as pretty and I'm not sure how much I like the formatting in the conversion but I thought I should throw them out here before I forget abou them.
If anyone wants the openoffice source file, PM me

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(I think this is the right board? Or maybe this is more of interest to modders?)