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Re: Fielded Kelarium

Thu, 22 April 2004 13:17

Apelord

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Some other things to bear in mind when considering armoring ships is the stacking effect of sheilds (which leads to how many you will build), whether you took RS or not (I almost always do), and Iron efficiency.

Taken in reverse order:
Iron efficiency means simply how many points of offense/defense do you get for each unit of iron invested. Hulls give you the best payback (especially late game) in terms of defense per iron unit. By Hulls I also mean chaffe. 3kt worth of iron in chaffe can soak up an armageddon missile which is a very nice payback. As a rule of thumb hulls are more efficient than armor in terms of defense per unit of iron. This gets a little more complicated because you might also be constrained by other minerals/resources required to build another ship, etc.

RS is, generally speaking, required late game (especially true in the nub era). This lrt halves the efficiency of your armor investment however which makes the above even more true.

Stacking effect of sheilds is simply that a bigger stack of one design yields more sheilds to overcome before cap missiles begin doing double damage. The Stars! combat engine favors quantity over quality as a result. So before you begin building ships one needs to consider how many you will build. Early to mid techs do not have a long a life and become outdated quickly. Thus something like feilded kelarium probably won't be around long before better techs become available hence building tons of ships with this stuff on it won't be a good investment since it will be outmoded quickly and you will not be able to build up a big pile of ships to get a big stack of sheilds.

Small skirmish groups, a key frontline starbase, etc. under the right circumstances might need kelarium to get that extra edge, but any such edge will be short lived.

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