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Ananda posted 02-22-99 11:42 AM ET
The strategy guide mentions that some armors protect against "projectile" while others protect against "energy" (and some do both, e.g. plasma steel). Is this true? Does a unit with, say, synthemetal armor have NO defense against a gatling laser?
And if so, where is it in the manual?
Ananda
paraskous posted 02-22-99 02:11 PM ET
I understood that certain armour have a malus: Energy against projectile. Look into alpha.txt there is a section describing the effects - I didn't find it in the manual
DHE_X2 posted 02-22-99 06:18 PM ET
It's mostly flavor text, iirc
Dan Scheltema posted 02-23-99 03:27 AM ET
I went into the alpha.txt and looked at what's there. Assuming it's enabled, and not ignored, there are three types of armor:
Projectile
Energy
Binary
There are three types of weapons:
Projectile
Energy
Missile
Missile weapons never get a bonus, but the projectile and energy weapons get a 50% attack bonus when shooting at a unit with the opposite (and inappropriate) form of armor. thus projectile weapons get +50% versus energy armor and energy weapons +50% versus projectile (balistic) armor. You can thus improve your unit's performance in some cases by choosing what weapon type and armor type you enploy. In some situations the latest tech is not the best tech, a nice addition.
Binary armor is equally effective against all attacks, so is good all around armor if it's not too far below your latest discovery. Likewise missile weapons are good allaround weapons, if they aren't too far down the tree from the projectile or energy choice that's current.
More to micromanage... what fun!
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Author	Topic: Question about weapons vs. armor
Ananda	posted 02-22-99 11:42 AM ET The strategy guide mentions that some armors protect against "projectile" while others protect against "energy" (and some do both, e.g. plasma steel). Is this true? Does a unit with, say, synthemetal armor have NO defense against a gatling laser? And if so, where is it in the manual? Ananda
paraskous	posted 02-22-99 02:11 PM ET I understood that certain armour have a malus: Energy against projectile. Look into alpha.txt there is a section describing the effects - I didn't find it in the manual
DHE_X2	posted 02-22-99 06:18 PM ET It's mostly flavor text, iirc
Dan Scheltema	posted 02-23-99 03:27 AM ET I went into the alpha.txt and looked at what's there. Assuming it's enabled, and not ignored, there are three types of armor: Projectile Energy Binary There are three types of weapons: Projectile Energy Missile Missile weapons never get a bonus, but the projectile and energy weapons get a 50% attack bonus when shooting at a unit with the opposite (and inappropriate) form of armor. thus projectile weapons get +50% versus energy armor and energy weapons +50% versus projectile (balistic) armor. You can thus improve your unit's performance in some cases by choosing what weapon type and armor type you enploy. In some situations the latest tech is not the best tech, a nice addition. Binary armor is equally effective against all attacks, so is good all around armor if it's not too far below your latest discovery. Likewise missile weapons are good allaround weapons, if they aren't too far down the tree from the projectile or energy choice that's current. More to micromanage... what fun!