Kurotenshi55

I'm an avid fan of re-usable launchers myself and I get your aversion to them when it comes to repetitive tediousness. In my experience, 1.25m rockets aren't worthwhile to re-use, as demonstrated in above by you. However, it becomes more interesting when you start adapting 2.5m rockets for re-usability. If you feel like it, why not try making the Thunder 1 re-usable? Two-stage rockets and up usually need some help from mods like FMRS in order to make their first stage re-usable though. If you wanna keep it full stock while making other Thunder rockets re-usable, they'd have to overhauled into chemical SSTO's. At that point they might as well be a new launcher family all on it's own.