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Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
shiels count as hitpoints on units.

Shields may count as hitpoints on units, but PPB hits on normal shielded units must recalculate the hitpoints to exclude shields. Just watch PPBs take out multiple fighters per hit against Shield 3. That is why it sometimes takes multiple PDC hits to take out a fighter with Shield 3.

I believe that unit stacks carry over damage to the next unit in the stack. If the next hit is not a PPB, it will include the shield in the check to see if the items is destroyed. Unless they keep a counter of the shield strength of the 'top' unit separate from the the damage accumulator. It would be interesting to see if you stored up 60 carryover damage on a fighter stack, if the next PPB hit took out something like 5 or 6 of the buggers. I do not believe any damage carryover (units or ships) ever remembers what type of hit the damage carried over from. It always gets added straight to the new hit, as far as I know.