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The boarding ship had to lower its shields but it didn't lose all its armor and structural integrity. And I thought the boarding component was like pods for space marines, which is why it isn't reusable. So the boarding ship doesn't have to dock with the SDD ship.
The explanation since SE3 was that you either lose all your troopers to the defences on board (if you lose), or the troopers remain on board the captured ship to pilot & maintain control. The troopers could still get aboard directly from a forced docking and not be reusable.
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Yes, but not THAT overpowered! An escort taking out a mother ship covered with organic armor??!! Why the heck would anyone even bother to make any other weapons? (Weenies could research master computer first.)
Attempting to board a small ship with a SDD is just silly. You lose any shields plus your troopers,
at best. If you have a mothership with organic armor, ram your way through the little ships and regenerate your armor.
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But ships at range have their shields up, and are mobile, so you can't reach them from where you are
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They aren't at range if you're ramming them.
I was talking about your
"Collateral damage should occur to ALL other ships next to it" statement. You are not ramming the "other ships", and you aren't being boarded by the "other ships" in the case of SD.
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Yes, but not THAT overpowered! An escort taking out a mother ship covered with organic armor??!! Why the heck would anyone even bother to make any other weapons? (Weenies could research master computer first.)
Look, 1000 supplies gives you 100 CSMs.
100 damage times 100 CSMs gives you 10,000 damage.
Detonate all your ammo as a SDD, and you do twice the damage of a Black Hole's center!
A 10 KT SDD could hold more than enough CSM warheads(without missile bodies) to destroy anything.
[This message has been edited by suicide_junkie (edited 01 June 2001).]