Re: [FT] armour

Roger Books wrote:

> I've been looking a bit at armour and in ship design it
> looks like armour is a wonderful thing.
>
> Average hull mass 90 ship:
>
> First threshold @   7 hits
> Second threshold @ 14 hits
> Third threshold @  21 hits
> Death 	  @  27 hits
>
> Weak hull mass 90, with 9 armour:
>
> First threshold @  14 hits (same as second on AVE hull)
> Second threshold@  19 hits
> Third threshold@   23 hits
>  Death	 @   27 hits
>

But not all weapons have to go through the armour before starting to
damage the hull. Meet a ship with the wrong (or right, depending upon
which end of the barrel you are) weapon mix and your threshold points
become :

First @ 5
Second @ 10
Third @ 14
Death @ 18

which doesn't look half as appealing.

Tony