[Singollo]

Try searching for SAT and Multi thread.

I did, many times. The problem was that I couldn't sort the pre-Gold material from Gold material, even when posters agreed on what they were saying.

Thanks for all the responses, folks. Let me see if I'm straight on this. I'd appreciate it if someone would run down this checklist and "grade" me as being correct or incorrect.

1. Abilities from ECM, Talisman, etc. do apply to an entire stack if just one unit has the components. So I can equip one fighter/WP with a small ECM (or whatever) and it will affect the entire stack.

2. For combat purposes, units are not considered to have components that are damaged individually. Therefore armor offers no better protection than any other component with the same tonnage (in which case unit armor would seem to be a waste).

3. Unit shields are not treated as shields, but rather as extra tonnage, even though the unit display will show blue shield points. Therefore weapons that will skip shields have no real effect on units, since the shield points count as kT points and must all be destroyed anyway. (Question: does this mean that a shield generator component gives damage resistance both for the component's kT and for the "shield kT" generated by the component?)

4. The Crystalline Restructuring facility does add to "shield kT", either to each individual fighter or to a stack of fighters, depending on whose advice I listen to. Is this also true for other units?

One Last thing: can someone tell me whether the stacking of abilities in number 1 above is an intentional feature or a bug? If it is a bug, I would prefer not to take advantage of it.