Is spaceship armor useless? - Page 6

Xplo · 01-03-2013, 12:38 AM

Today I was reading through Spaceships and trying to design a TL9 civilian ship that could defend itself against pirate attacks. And it seems to me that armor is nearly useless; any ship of a given size can easily mount weapons that can defeat any reasonable quantity of armor that ship could carry.

In fact, it's worse than that. The smallest conventional projectile listed - 2cm - does 6dx5 dDam, or about 100 on average, which vastly exceeds the dDR on all but the largest and more ridiculously armored ships. In other words: small fighters can kill nearly anything.

Is there something I'm missing here, or is armor really that useless?

01-03-2013, 12:38 AM	#1
Xplo Join Date: Apr 2006	Is spaceship armor useless? Today I was reading through Spaceships and trying to design a TL9 civilian ship that could defend itself against pirate attacks. And it seems to me that armor is nearly useless; any ship of a given size can easily mount weapons that can defeat any reasonable quantity of armor that ship could carry. In fact, it's worse than that. The smallest conventional projectile listed - 2cm - does 6dx5 dDam, or about 100 on average, which vastly exceeds the dDR on all but the largest and more ridiculously armored ships. In other words: small fighters can kill nearly anything. Is there something I'm missing here, or is armor really that useless?