New Armor

Phillip E. Pournelle writes:

@:) Has Anyone given any thought to my idea to enable ships to buy
@:) armor by the box?  Basically you buy damage boxes and place them
@:) in their rows so that no row is greater than the one below it.

  I'm pretty sure something along these lines has been mentioned
before, but I don't know what the general consensus was.  This is
pretty much how I've always imagined armor should work.  It would be
worth doing a cost-benefit analysis on this armor and comparing it the
the MT armor rules.  Your armor sounds like it might be a bit too
heavy to be workable, but .5 mass per point is probably too light.

-joachim