Ramming ships - swarming & organics

[Loser]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Throw a shield generator on those OA ramming ships, so you can avoid being easily boarded or being disabled by one shot from an ID.

Won't the shields be gone the first time the ship rams?

Are you treating the ship as having done it's job, 600 point of damage is a hell of a job, after the first ram, and so unconcerned with what happens to it afterwards?

A ramming ship needs speed, does it not? Will not the high-end engines and solar sail make the ship expensive enough that you can no longer afford enough of them to 'swarm'? Is that cost insignificant compared with the cost of the ships they are destroying?