Re: Limits on armour? and Full Steam

[Noam Izenberg <noam.izenberg@xxxxxxxxxx>]

One armor idea I floated a while back is to make armor cheaper (like  
2 per mass), but have all damage above about 3 points from a single  
source (one attacking ship, one fighter group, one missile salvo, one  
plasma bolt etc) penetrate to the hull. This simulates directional  
coverage of armor (in that it can be locally overwhelmed) without  
using armor facings. This makes it more possible that heavily armored  
ships like the NSL might actually get destroyed before losing all  
their armor, which  has a certain logic to it.

K-guns still penetrate after only 1 point.


On Jul 6, 2006, at 3:51 PM, John K Lerchey wrote:

> If armor is to get a revamp, I'd think more about a complete  
> overhaul than limiting the max based on hull row length.
>
> J
>
> John K. Lerchey
> Assistant Director for Incident Response
> Information Security Office
> Carnegie Mellon University
>
> On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Indy wrote:
>
> > On 7/6/06, McCarthy, Tom (xwave) <Tom.McCarthy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > What
> > > > bugs me more is going up against a Komorov or something  
> > > similar, where
> > > you
> > > > feel there's no point in shooting at it because it'll take five  
> > > turns
> > > just
> > > > to get to the first threshold, and until then he's utterly safe  
> > > from
> > > > losing any systems.
> > > In some ways, that what it feels like to me against the Markgraf,  
> > > even.
> > > Or the Ark Royal.  Average hulls and more than 10% in armour is  
> > > brutal
> > > to chew through, and even weak hulls seem incredibly durable with 2
> > > screens and 5% armour.
> >
> >
> > Well....isn't that part of the point of having those passive  
> > defenses on the
> > ship?
> >
> > You just need to hit it with heavier damaging weapons (larger the  
> > ship,
> > larger the weapon to take it down). Of course then you hit the  
> > flip side
> > with weapon vaporizing all the little ships long before little  
> > ships can get
> > into engagement range.
> >
> > Mk

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