SMR Combat

[notlaw]

I've looked for info on how combat works, not formula but general info.

If I have weapons that do shield and armour damage then do they deal all their damage or are shields hit first. And then once shields are depleted armour is removed ?

Also do shields reduce armour damage ?

And is your ship destroyed once the armour runs out or once armour and shields runs out!

Apologies if this has been answered elsewhere - havent seen this anywhere!

Thanks in advance

[bigjerm]

Shields are first to go, then drones if somebody has them on thier ship, then armor. so move your weapons so all shield wepz are first, dual dmg (shield/armor) in the middle and all armor wepz last. combat drones can be killed by armor weapons, they take 3 armor dmg to kill for each CD.

[Notlaw]

Thanks, most helpful and just what I was after!

[B.O.B.]

Bigjerm didn't address this:

Shields have to be gone to go into armor.
If the defender has Combat drones then they have to be destroyed before armor can.

Now this part I am not sure is the same in SMR, but if someone like Trib or anyone else knows please correct me if I am wrong, but:

1. Attacking and defender has shields left.
2. defender also has combat drones.
3. All shield damaging weapons have been fired.
4. An armor weapon hits the defender.
5. Armor damage/20 = amount of CDs destroyed. So:
Creonti Big Daddy hits which does 0 shields 250 armor so:
250/20= 12 CDs are destroyed.

(It seems like I remeber 20 from SM but not sure)

I do know that a similar formula works for planets but the amount of armor damage has to be far greater cause a CBD destroys like 1 CD and a Nuke 2 CDs I believe.


Anyway I think that is how that goes.

[Trib]

Hmm, think damage to CDs might actually be 1 to 1 and not divided by 20.

[B.O.B.]

Hmm, think damage to CDs might actually be 1 to 1 and not divided by 20.

Meaning 1 armor weapon kills 1 cd? Please clarify for my benefit too.

All I remeber is back in SM when my CBDs hit and shields were present I would kill 12 CDs and when a TL hit it killed 5 CDs. Maybe that is where I got the number 20 from.

Could you see if you could find the exact way it works and post it here, please?

[Trib]

Actually twigged as to what you were saying in the first place.

Basically when shields are up, NO drones are killed. Only once all shields are destroyed to drones take any damage.

[Shesmu]

I believe that it's true that it requires 20 armor damage to kill one drone. As for planets, they only take 1/5 (?) damage, which is why it's more difficult to kill their drones (and shield & armor)...

[bigjerm]

i think they changed planets top 1/4 now, i rock planets sometimes for 200+ dmg, thats not right. even in a dev. id say like 150 MAX, unless your all shields, then 200 is possible

[Blum]

The highest possible damage an all shield 8 gun setup can do is 1130. If planets take only 1/5 it would be 226, if 1/4 282.5.
For armour it's 1450, 290 and 362.5.