Armour layers ignored after the first one is breached
May 6, 2017 19:49:30 GMT
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Post by thorneel on May 6, 2017 19:49:30 GMT
During a routine test with a 10 GW UV laserstar and an immobile superheavy target, I got this weird result:
When the target has nine 10 m layers, the outermost being aramid fibre, the laserstar barely scratch it.
When I add a 1 mm aramid layer on top of it, the internal modules of the target are destroyed almost immediately.
It seems that once the outermost layer is pierced, the 9 innermost layers are ignored and the modules directly targeted.
Also, most of the time, the laserstar would drop in combat at a few dozen km at most, instead of its 1 Mm laser range as it should.
Adding a "targeting laser" platform in the target's fleet with 1 Mm range and setting it to ignore range solve this.
When the target has nine 10 m layers, the outermost being aramid fibre, the laserstar barely scratch it.
When I add a 1 mm aramid layer on top of it, the internal modules of the target are destroyed almost immediately.
It seems that once the outermost layer is pierced, the 9 innermost layers are ignored and the modules directly targeted.
Also, most of the time, the laserstar would drop in combat at a few dozen km at most, instead of its 1 Mm laser range as it should.
Adding a "targeting laser" platform in the target's fleet with 1 Mm range and setting it to ignore range solve this.
