[oleg]

There is another way to deal with the stockpile of CA - If you take the whole piece of CA in one shot, it will recharge only the overhead damage.
CA III has 150 points. If you hit with 200 weapon, it will blow up one piece and only 50 residual 50 will be channeled to shield. Of course in most cases you will have some shields to sap before getting CA itself in one shot, but basic idea when fighting CA is bigger is better !

Another good anti-CA weapon is time distortion bust. Once you get several levels in temporal weapons and mount TDB on light cruiser or bigger, you can eat heavily armoured crystalline ships alive. 4x shields damage makes a mockery out of CA. CA is in no way unballancing, it just add new interesting twist to SE gameplay.

[ September 05, 2002, 02:39: Message edited by: oleg ]