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I can say for sure that the missiles on WPs do fire when attacked. I can also say for sure that you need many more WPs to protect a planet than in SEIV. I think this is primarily because an early game frigate is 250Kt plus other junk that gives it 345 structure points. This is compared to 200Kt period in SEIV. Add to that that missiles are weak (level 5 does 80 damage) and the ballance clearly shifts to the attacker. In addition a large mount does not add range in the demo making a gun based platform not so effective either.