[Suicide Junkie]

Unfortunately, Crystalline will block boarding parties.

Emissive armor would not, but it would protect against all other weapons too.

However, if you were to make lasers 1-turn reload, and the other weapons much longer reload, you could have a situation like this:

30 Emissive points (ice shields)
Laser: 35 damage, reload 1
Explosive Shell Projectile: 350 damage, reload 7

14% (5/35) of the laser gets through the shield, but 91% (320/350) of the cannon gets through.

Increase the length of the space combats to you get a reasonable number of shots per combat with the projectile weapons.

[ August 26, 2002, 16:47: Message edited by: Suicide Junkie ]