[geoschmo]

Originally posted by PvK:
Geoschmo, your calculation of value is off. EA III is 50 structure + 30 emissive = 80 to kill, and 20kT size. Standard Armor III is 40 structure for 10kt size. You said armor was 4:1 and EM was 2.5:1, but it's really 4:1 as well, so EM III is never worse than SA III.

Ah, but PvK, but my figures ARE correct, if everything you said previously is correct. I believe you are not following it through to it's logical conclusion.

You get the 4:1 ratio for emmisive armor only on the first component destroyed by any single shot. So if someone were to go with all Em Armor and the enemy was doing say 180 damage points per shot (Not an exroidnary number mind you with mounts), 180 points would destroy 3 em armor III components because you only get the em value for the one em comp per shot. While the same 60Kt of standard armor III could withstand 240 points of damage. You see my point was the Em armor would never be any better than standard armor, and agaisnt larger weapons it is worse than standard armor. It's the additional comps that don't get to use their em value that have the 2.5:1 ratio.

And I did conceed some limited value for a single piece of em armor and several pieces of standard armor. I suppose a mix of one piece of em armor and several crystalline armor comps could be similarly effective. I just am doubtful of the effectiveness considering the chance of the em armor being destroyed on any shot. The only way it's really worth anything is if it lives through several shots, and you can't predict that it will with any certainty.

Geoschmo