[Kana]

Well basically...say these are the slots facing a certain direction.

Row 1 1-2-3-4-5-6
Row 2 1-2-3-4-5-6
Row 3 1-2-3-4-5-6

If slots 1 and 2 are inner, then in my previous example, you would have to destroy outer slots 3, 4, 5, and 6, and at least one armor component, and minus whatever is absorbed by the shield before slots 1 and 2 even take damage on in given row. This would be applied for each seperate shot, so eventually you will have no outer slots left to hit on that side, which would just leave internal slots.

As it stands now like I said, you would basically have to remove all of the outer slots before you could hurt the ship. Its like the difference between sticking a pencil into an orange as apposed to peeling the skin off before you can get to orange on the inside.