DevNull and Emissive Armour

[oleg]

But what if ship is killed during the round ? There will be nothing left to "radiate back" even thogh the ship would survive if emmision occur during the round, not after it !

[Suicide Junkie]

Well, then the ship is dead anyways, and the fireball will be a small fraction of a percent brighter?

[geoschmo]

What if the armor skipping weapons were limited to smaller ships? This is almost reasonable if you think about it in a way like armor piercing wepons would need to be on faster, more manuverable ships that could get in close and "Target the seams" and find the weak points. Your capital ships would have their large mounted beam weapons that pound on each other from a distance and your smaller destroyers and stuff would be coming in close with weaker weapons, trying to score a critical internal hit and disable the ship.

Geoschmo

[Baron Munchausen]

The rational of at least the current armor skipping weapons is that they penetrate it, not 'slip by' it. It would be nice to have a slight chance to 'skip' armor with any weapon, but that's a combat change that MM will have to consider seperately. I'd like to see the three 'layers' of a ship like SE III had brought back for SE V, too.

I doubt that emissive armor will be so powerful that the 're-emitted' energy of a single round could make the difference of a ship being destroyed or not. By the time a ship is about to be destroyed the armor is a ragged mass of shredded metal, or completely vaporized. If the damage fro one round is so huge that it could wipe the ship out in that single hit then it's not surprising the armor would be over-whelmed anyway.

[ March 19, 2003, 15:46: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]