OA vs Shields

[Taera]

this thread is to respond to Fyron's statement that OA's lose horribly to shields, which he already stated. They are excellently balanced. After all, the point of organic trait is lots of weaker, cheaper ships. But lots. Maybe not that much more, as some people said, but enough to keep your ships busy.

As for heavily-armored ships, well, in my experience ships with HEAVY armoring and a few (BIG) weapons are extremly fearful - im talking about racial armors, for their regeneration. If the ship is solid enough, it's likely not to go soon. With only 5 armors you get 150 regeneration per round, which is aint bad. The only worry are the ID's, but well, everything is threatened by ID's unless you go heavy shielding, which is then vulnurable to shield-only weapons.