[Alneyan]

The Shard Cannon is the only weapon skipping Armour, and happens to belong to the Crystalline Empires. Annoying that.

Shield Disruptors are very good, but fairly expensive, and with a low range (requiring either bases/weapon platofmrs or an enemy strategy of Short Range/Point Blank). If it does hit, that will hurt however; the problem being to make those shots.