[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Spoo:

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The way I see it the emmisive armor is only any good until your enemy starts using weapons that are more than 80 points per shot.

But it should also be noted that one EA on a ship grants its ability to all other armor on the ship, effectively adding 30 HP (for EA III) to ever other piece of armor until the EA is destroyed.

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Which I did note in the very next paragraph. But even that is of limited use. Once your enemy starts hitting at much over 100 per shot (not very long) the combination of one em value and two or three emmisive armor strutures minus their em values reaches a point where the strength per KT of space used is greater for standard armor.

There is some value I admit in using a single piece of Em armor and several pieces of standarad armor, but cause you get a small reduction of each shot until the em armor is destroyed as you say, but the effect I think is negligeble and very dependant on chance. You have a percentage chance of losing your em armor on the first shot and then you have just standard armor. Which I guess is no worse than my idea, but I don't see much advantage to it either. And you pay the same cost as 5 standard armors for the same KT of that one Emmisive armor.

Geoschmo