[Suicide Junkie]

Armor: Why is heavy armor better than light armor. The way I see it is that heavy armor is inferior to light armor. Why? Well, light Armor has more armor per tonnage than heavy armor.

Light armor does has more hitpoints, but it also has a lower chance of blocking any one particular hit.

If you design two otherwise equal ships, and put heavy armor on one, and light armor on the other, the light ship you can see the difference.

The light ship has 6000 hitpoints, and the heavy ship has 4000 hitpoints.
But, the heavy ship wins 2/3rds or more of the time.

Why? The light ship's armor is breached more often, it loses its weapons, and proceeds to be beaten into a pulp.

Also, the heavy armor is much easier to repair after combat, since you need much fewer components to protect a ship.