Shields

[Varyon]

Originally Posted by Kelly Pedersen

Another idea to encourage derring-do and stunts with small fighters is to assume that small craft can actually get under a big ship's shield, and do direct damage there.

I've considered this in the past, but the primary issue with it is that, if fighters can do this, it's hard to justify missiles not being able to do so, which means swarms of missiles will work out much better than death defying fighter stunts... which kind of defeats the purpose.