RE: Critical hits (was Limits on armour?)

Sorry, should have been "can become almost toothless"

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Noam Izenberg [mailto:noam.izenberg@jhuapl.edu]
> Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 2:36 PM
> To: gzg@firedrake.org
> Subject: Re: Critical hits (was Limits on armour?)
> 
> 
> On Jul 7, 2006, at 2:23 PM, McCarthy, Tom ((xwave)) wrote:
> 
> > Personally, I find the second threshold check to be huge.  Many
ships
> > are still nasty combatants until that 2nd threshold check.	And
then,
> > suddenly, they become almost toothless.
> 
> I agree with everything but the "toothless" adjective. Threshold
> level 2 is where ships are more likely to have some serious fighting
> capability reduced. I tend to care much less about threshold 1 on any
> ship with two or more firecons, and want to maximize damage
> absorption/deflection/avoidance capability to the end of the second
> row, if I can.
> 
> 
> 
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