[JLS]

Originally posted by Ed Kolis:
Well in Proportions, doesn't most armor block some amount of damage per shot? So imagine using an armored ship as sort of a "brute force" minesweeper - just detonate them harmlessly against the armor.

Of course, given that mines do damage in the hundreds and armor blocks around 1-5 per shot, not counting emissive armor, I don't really see how that would make much sense anyway... unless you consider mine explosions to do their damage in the form of a huge number of tiny shrapnel projectiles, which isn't all that unreasonable...

Exactly, the premise is that the larger the displacement of the vessel the greater the (scale mount) in Armor Plate that could be Installed.

If it was possible to put the (Minesweeping Ability) on the scale mount, then as the ship displacement increases then so to the amount of mines required to do damage….

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Yeah... in Proportions, it'd need to be a reverse of the Scale Mount series... However I'm still waiting to be told what the original conceptual connection between scale-mounted shell/plate armor and minesweeping was.

PvK

PVK, in regards to Mine Sweeping Abilities this is just the title for the actual se4 action and not meant literally in my presentation.

The intention is that, the amount of mines required and/or actually expended would be increased as the scale of Armor Plating is increased by the Ships Displacement.

I humbly ask, can this be done with Plate Armor, and is there any advise to actually make this happen with the CompEnhancement mounts ?

[ September 07, 2003, 15:28: Message edited by: JLS ]