Emmisive Armor for Dummies, please...

[tbontob]

Originally posted by Zanthis:

BTW, the formula given Armor and EA to find the minimum strength damage to have a chance of killing EA before Armor is:

E + 2R - A + 1

where:
A = damage to kill a piece of armor,
E = damage to kill a piece of emissive armor,
R = reduction to damage from emissive component

Let' see if I can get this through my tired brain.

Where you have armorIII and emmissive armorIII and a volley:
1) the emmissive armor absorbs 30 damage.
2) then the armor III is destroyed
3) then the emmissive armor is destroyed

Is this how it works?

But your formula implies that emmissive armor can be killed first.