Shield Depleters- DevNull Mod Question

[Alneyan]

The Shield Depleting weapons area will do both: you will get Shield Depleters first (reduce Shield points, and only Shield points), and then Shield Disruptors (destroy the Shield Generator themselves).

The standard caveat for the Shield Disruptors: you need to do enough damage to take down one component per hit. If the weapon only does 30 damage points, it will not be enough to destroy a Shield Generator at 40 hitpoints, regardless of how many times you try. Shield Disruptors also have a low range and are very expensive, at least in the vanilla game (it is the same in Devnull, if memory serves).

[ExSentinel]

That is what I needed. Basically, the only reason I would use them would be a Massive mount on a large weapons platform. 5x damage and +7 range. So it looks like I am going to need to go through a couple more areas of the tech tree to get to the disrupters. The empire attacking me places 7 to 8 shield generators on his BB and DNs and it is a pain to try and weed through that, even with massive mounts. But hopefully the 45 large weapon platforms with massive quantum V torpedos and 1000 fighters on the next planet he is attacking will put a dent in his fleet.
Thanks for the info.

[Suicide Junkie]

Using the Shield Depleters will really tear through his shields, though.
Count out just enough to strip one of his ships, and then put your choice of hull-busting weapon to fill the rest of your space.