[geoschmo]

What if the armor skipping weapons were limited to smaller ships? This is almost reasonable if you think about it in a way like armor piercing wepons would need to be on faster, more manuverable ships that could get in close and "Target the seams" and find the weak points. Your capital ships would have their large mounted beam weapons that pound on each other from a distance and your smaller destroyers and stuff would be coming in close with weaker weapons, trying to score a critical internal hit and disable the ship.

Geoschmo