Armor Thoughts

[Suicide Junkie]

Still, that 30% bonus comes at the price of 80kT of space!

four (unmodded) shield regenerators would give you 80 regen per turn: enough to ignore dual CSM 5!

[Marty Ward]

Yes but 30% off may keep you from being hit at all by a Heavy mount wave motion gun! The less chance of being hit the better I feel.

[Suicide Junkie]

Or, you could use the 320 regeneration you get before they reload to totally ignore the WMG.

I would suggest you take 2 regenerators and the stealth armor (not scattering).

You then regenerate 160 hitpoints and have a 15% bonus, with 10 space left over.

People always seem to vastly underestimate the value of shield regenerators.
If you can survive longer than 6 turns after being hit the first time, regenerators get you more hitpoints than additional shield generators!

[Taqwus]

It's not just the PPBs that justify armor -- IIRC, a heavy-mount Shield Depleter can take out 450 pts of shielding per turn at range 7, in a pretty compact package. I'd say that's worth defending against.

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-- The thing that goes bump in the night

[Marty Ward]

But you survive much longer if you are not hit at all!
But that is the beauty of this game. There are counters for almost everything. If you are against a crystal race any armor is useless. If you are organic,armor is great. If you are against shield depleters armor is great.
That's why I love this game!

[This message has been edited by Marty Ward (edited 27 May 2001).]

[jc173]

I usually go with stealth armor and ablative armor to fill up space on my ships, especially on smaller ships and boarding ships. I rarely use stealth and scattering armor on the same platform except for starbases and battlestations where the 80kt is a very small portion of the available space and 30% defensive bonus helps offset the hull type defensive penalties.