Author Topic: what does armor piercing do?  (Read 1165 times)

Offline goobie

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what does armor piercing do?
« on: November 14, 2010, 07:45:54 am »
yes..I'm curious. what exactly do i use it for?

Offline TheDeadlyShoe

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Re: what does armor piercing do?
« Reply #1 on: November 14, 2010, 08:24:28 am »
It pierces one point of the targets armor.   

Armor gets subtracted from damage after its multiplied.

Basically anything with a lot of armor is very tough against things that dont counter it directly, and anything with armor piercing is better against things it doesn't directly counter.

Some ships that increase a lot in armor per rank (like Space Tanks and Bombers) can virtually ignore lower tech enemies, even ones that counter them. For example, Laser Gatlings get a bonus against Polycrystal, but their per attack damage is so low that they can't efficiently harm bombers that are a couple marks above them.


 

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