[rdouglass]

Originally posted by Yef:

1- I designed a new fighter with small shields 1, and when I put it up against my previous design in the simulator, it turns out that the one with shields beats the heck out of the one without shields. The problem with this is that both fighters are armed with small Phased Polaroid Beams level 3, and the only diference between them is in the shields, not counting the engines i removed to make room for the shield component.
Aren't those PPBs supposed to go through regular shields?

Shields aren't really shields on units but just get added to the hitpoints like any other component. Hence it adds to the hitpoint total reguardless of weapon type; shield or armor skipping etc.