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I beg to disagree. It has been shown mathematically that unless you can deal more damage than can be pumped back in by the CA, you can NEVER hurt the CA ship!!!
Ah, not quite
If you drain the shields, and then hit with a high-damage weapon, you will hurt the ship.
625 shields, tons of crystal armor.
WMG hit, 300 damage.
325 shields, ToCA.
WMG hit.
25 shields ToCA.
WMG hit. 275 damage destroys one crystalline armor segment.
300 shields ToCa minus 1.
From then on, if you have no shield regenerators, and at least 300 crystal effect points left, then you will not be hurt further.
The enemy could always refit their ships to alternate shield depleters and Massive PPBs.
Then the Shield depleter kills your shield, the PPB destroys one crystalline armor while recharging your shields,
repeat till death.
Of course, a shield depleter plus Crystalline shards will not recharge your shields and your armor will be useless.