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Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
As for armor...
How much are you adding?
Try comparing ships with 10%, 20%, 35% and 50% armor by mass.
In fleets, too.

I have been experimenting with 10 v 10 ship engagements, with between 20% and 40% armor, and extra firepower seems to overcome extra armor. This is all at full tech levels. There may be a breakpoint at lower tech levels, but armor is so much harder to research than weapons that I doubt it. Note that this is all inert armor - I haven't started looking at reactive armors.