[Spaceships] Question about hull damage

[Varyon]

Originally Posted by jacobmuller

I use all those Pyramid updates plus the one that bases energy beams off square-roots as opposed to the RAW cube-root; IDHMNWM so not sure which issue it's in.

"Square Root of Destruction," Alternate Spaceships, Pyramid #3/34, page 9. Note if your objective is to improve survivability, this is generally a bad idea, because it makes beam weapons a good deal more powerful.

Originally Posted by jacobmuller

I also use a suggestion from the authors that AFVs are 70% armor... This means combat "ships" in my setting are very tough.

Indeed. If going with this, it may be worthwhile to make use of "Smaller Systems" (Spaceships 7, pages 4-5) so that your vessel has more than 4 non-armor hull systems. While you've set your fighter as, say, SM+7, you can use the volume reduction of heavy armor and the Smaller Systems rules to have it function essentially as a really well-armored SM+6 fighter instead.