"Armour Rating is the thickness of the armour and can be increased or decreased by clicking the small arrows to the right of this box.
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The armour is represented by a block of 'boxes' with the width based on the size of the ship and the depth based on the thickness of the armour.
I thought I understood this until I actually started designing ships and weapons. But... I guess I don't.
Looking at the Class Design page, I've got a PDC with an "Armour Rating" of 1 and an "Armour" of 5-16. Is the "thickness" of the armor 1 or 5?
From what I've seen elsewhere, a missile warhead of strength 1, 2, or 3 will only destroy the top layer of armor, right? So in that PDC, do I have just one layer of armor or five layers?
You say that armor is represented by a block of boxes, so I thought this meant, in my example above, armor that was 5 "boxes" thick and 16 boxes in "width." But then, the "Armour Rating" is just 1, and that's also supposed to be the thickness. In the tutorial, your examples had the same first number in those "boxes" as "Armour Rating," so it seemed simple enough. Once I got into the game, though, I discovered this wasn't the case. So I really don't understand.
Any help here?
Thanks,
Bill