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How about the amount of damage caused from ship bombs? Is that randomly determined? If I want to destroy a ship, will targeting it with two simultaneous ship bomb missions do the trick?
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I don't think it's randomised. Just as resource procurement gets you 10,000 + 10,000 + 10,000 every time, a ship bomb seems to do the same amount of damage every time. Not sure how much though, probably around 100 points.

You can use mulitple bombs on one target.

Oh, and if the target ship has armour, damage will be applied there first, but shields will be ignored.

Ship bombs are really good against smaller ships (<Cruiser) and enemies which use shields rather than armour. It is sometimes still worth hitting armoured craft though - If you have a cloaked lookout in a system and can watch the enemy fleets heading towrds your systems, you can target larger ships to tenderise them before combat. Stripping off that crystalline or organic armour can really mess up their combat strategies.

Engine damage doesn't damage a ship's engines either, BTW, it just wastes a few movement points.

My favourite sabotage though is still cargo maintenence problems - get rid of those weapons platforms and fighters before sending in the troop transporters=-)

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