Bob wrote on Wed, 19 September 2012 00:32]With CW cheap, rest expensive I'm not researching shields early - I start with the cow, that's it for a long while (of course that is excluding trade/conquest of tech).

RS do look good - with protection, assuming they're not completely disabled in a given round, all through a fight.

But are they worth 100 points on the hab page? And another line of research (or just stick with Cows?)? And losing armour (when I'll have higher armours pretty fast, and no trouble gating it.