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Old 02-09-2019, 09:20 PM   #45
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Default Re: [Spaceships] How does large-scale space warfare play out (without superscience)?

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Originally Posted by Ulzgoroth View Post
Could you clarify? I don't see how that would make hardened armor do anything more than it does now. (It would make non-proximity missile attacks have something going for them, which would be all to the good)
Under the current rules, because hardening negates the (2) that contact hits have, and doesn't affect proximity attacks in the slightest, all hardening does is make proximity attacks strictly better.

If proximity attacks have a (0.5), then even hardened armour is penetrated better with a contact attack.

So, what I was saying is what you are saying. I just said it in a way that was possibly confusing.
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