Question about stacking for units/fighters/sats/etc.

[Suicide Junkie]

1) Yes. "Brain sats" with Talisman/Sensors/ECM/etc will provide fire control for all the sats in the stack.

2) Yes and no. Armor is still useful, since it is dirt cheap, and provides 5 hp/kt. Modest-level shielding is better, with up to 8 hp/kt. Almost all other components are 1 hp/kt.
The unit remains fully operational until all of its combined hitpoints are gone.

Think of a unit as being one component, and a stack of units as being the ship.

3) Yes. Shields, armor and internals are combined into one unit "component" for the unit stack "ship". All defense strength is treated as physical/armor type hitpoints. The shield points and generator hitpoints add.

4) I only tried it for fighters, but it provided hitpoints to all of the units. I suspect it would work for sats too, and maybe drones, but I doubt it would work on troops or platforms.

Re: #1 intentional?
Well, MM has already fiddled with the unit ability stacking, so I would say that it is intended until told otherwise.

[ July 31, 2002, 14:40: Message edited by: Suicide Junkie ]

[Singollo]

Close, but no cigar. We're talking about damage structure, not tonnage structure. Armor III, for example has a tonnage structure of 10kt, but a damage structure of 40kt, so one piece of Armor III donates 40kt of damage structure to the unit. Most components damage and tonnage structure are equal, but not armor. Thus the advantage of armor.

D'oh! That's right, of course. Silly me. Thanks for the reminder.

Re: #1 intentional?
Well, MM has already fiddled with the unit ability stacking, so I would say that it is intended until told otherwise.

That's good enough for me. No need to search too hard for something that will deprive me of useful stacking abilities....

Thanks everyone.

[Graeme Dice]

I did my testing with Groups of 1, 2, and 5 fighters against a point defense V.[/QB]

Use a more damaging weapon that a point defense V and you will see the difference between unshielded and shielded fighters. A massive mount anti-proton beam should be able to kill more than one fighter if shields were treated exactly the same as armour.