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.

It is, as long as your enemy doesn't like pulse torps or EMP missiles
(or happens to be Aaron Teske, so he kills your ship after destroying 2
pts of armour ;-) ). The only time it is not worthwhile to drop from
one hull category and no armour to the next weaker and 10% armour is if
you already have a Weak hull and thus would be dropping to Fragile...

How to fix it? Simple. Drop the cost of the hull boxes to 1*Mass, but
let the armour remain at 2*Mass. The snag with this is of course that
the FB1 ship costs all go out the window, but it balances the various
armour/screen options *much* better than the current costs.

Best wishes,

Oerjan Ohlson
oerjan.ohlson@telia.com

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