I gather it didn't work because your fighters are treated as a single, very powerful stack, rather than as a myriad of weapons. Or rather, because of some difference between units and ships.
The ability worked fine against a ship equipped with 14 Meson BLaster V (30 damage), but it failed against a single fighter with four Small DUC III (15 damage each). First round 15 damage was dealt and next turn 30 damage was dealt to the ship, before third turn where the armor was destroyed and then all damage was applied. Very weird. Or are all weapons on a fighter considered as being a single weapon for all purposes?
Yet another reason for scorning this... erh... wonderfully useless Emissive Armor. (Unless you are fighting an opponent who loves to use Meson BLaster V and below without any mount that is.
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Edit: I see, I was beaten to post as I had to run a few tests. I will have to learn how to type faster.
[ December 16, 2003, 20:08: Message edited by: Alneyan ]