Re: [ft2.5] armour v hulls

On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Thomas Anderson wrote:

> right, here's a really stupid question.
> 
> why bother building ships with hulls other than fragile? for the same
mass
> as an Average hull, i can get a Fragile and a coat of armour. this
gives
> me the same amount of boxes in total, and i take thresholds later.
> 
> or am i missing something? or, rather, what am i missing?
> 
> Tom

Well, let's see . . . rerolls from beam hits bypass armor, so all of
that
damage goes direct to hull.  Pulse torp hits are 1/2 to armor, 1/2 to
hull, so
half of the damage bypasses the armor and goes direct to hull.	After
just a
few beam rerolls or PT hits, and you are making threshold checks - even
though
your armor may be mostly intact.  Good enough answer? <G>

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