Re: [GZG] More advanced screens

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n tailby wrote:
> Isn't a [Langston] field just the same as regerating armour over a 
> ship with not many hull boxes? You equip a ship with a lot of armour 
> and then in the end phase each can recover its damage absorbant 
> ability on a number say 5+. Then you get ships that can initially 
> block a lot of damage but then need to retire from the battlefront to 
> shed excess enery and if they don't they go splat pretty quickly. 
> Especially if you enforce a hull box limit of 20% of ships mass.
Not really, because you're not modelling an important aspect of the 
Field -- local overload leading to burn-throughs, /i.e./, energy leak 
equivalent to a threshold check causing partial damage before the Field 
is "full". Your idea is more akin to a ship equipped with the Field and 
the Motie thermal superconductor, which minimised the effect of 
burn-throughs. To paraphrase a character from TGH/TMAME, ships still die

but they don't get hurt (as much).

Phil