Shields?

[Paladin]

From what I've seen, the shields seems to work that way (altough I rarely fight ;-)

I had a stranger problem when testing my brand new Dragon class Light cruiser in the simulator. it had 2 Shield generators IV, 2 Cristalline Armor II and 3 Heavy (3x damage) Shard Cannons IV.
To test it, I put one of these in front of another one + a frigate and a destroyer (same tech level, less firepower).
The large weapons would do just fine, but I found out that I wasn't doing much damage, in fact, the shields were REGENERATING when the ship was hit by the less powerfull frigate and destroyer, but the 45 dmg/gun of the Light cruiser was enough to bring it down a bit.
Knowing that the Cristalline armor description says it channels 10pts of dmg to the shields, I was wondering if it is a bug or a feature...
(because when the sole Light cruiser wins to the 3 others because of this, it is really weird...)

I did'nt see it in actual battle yet, but I'll try...

See Ya

[This message has been edited by Paladin (edited 21 August 2000).]

[This message has been edited by Paladin (edited 21 August 2000).]