Emmisive Armor for Dummies, please...

[geoschmo]

The way I see it the emmisive armor is only any good until your enemy starts using weapons that are more than 80 points per shot. Since you only get one emmisive ability per shot, after the first 80 points the additinal armor is only got a 2.5:1 ratio, while yor regular armor has a 4:1 ratio. And the emmisive armor is five times as expensive on a per Kt basis. Five times as expensive for an armor that is only as-good agasint smaller weapons, and worse-than agasint more powerful weapons. I am not math major, but that doesn't add up to me.

Maybe one piece of emmisive armor per ship would be good, since you then have a decent chance of it depleting several shots before it is destroyed. But even then the best it ever gets is the same ratio as regular armor. It's never better than regular armor. I see no point to it unless you are facing an enemy that has weapons weaker than the combined value of the em and structure of your armor.

Geoschmo

[ September 03, 2002, 19:43: Message edited by: geoschmo ]