100 anything versus 100 Crystalline Ships

[Suicide Junkie]

Kamog said:

I've tried putting lots of crystalline armor on my ships, and indeed it makes them a lot tougher. This ship design works well! It seems that crystalline armor is much better than organic armor, is that right?

Why is 11 crystalline armors better than 10?

Crystalline Vs Organic:
Crystalline dosen't care how fast the damage comes in. You get the same effect from 100 torpedo hits in one round as 4 torpedo hits per round for 25 rounds.

Organic Armor needs to survive to work, and the slower you take damage, the faster you regen.

One on One, the Organic armor will beat the Crystalline.
100 on 100, Organic provides no benefit at all.

[Alneyan]

That, and an Organic ship needs to survive one turn to see the regeneration kick in, while the Crystalline effect will work after each and every hit (well, barring weapons bypassing armour or shields). So the Crystalline armour is much better if your ships aren't expected to survive one turn, where their regeneration ability might improve the odds of the rest of your fleet.

Putting more than 10 Crystalline Armours increase the number of hits you can take while keeping your maximum regeneration ability (you cannot shrug off more than 149 points of damage, regardless of how many Crystalline Armours you have on board the ship). So, having 20 Crystalline Armours would require the attacker to destroy at least ten pieces of armour before breaking the "improved Emissive Armour" effect of the Crystalline Armour.

[brianeyci]

Asmala said:What, you're planning to attack me!?

Not when the best combat simulations give me a 2 to one death ratio.

Brian