Posted by: Shadow
« on: March 31, 2011, 10:22:18 AM »CIWS are beam weapons and should not work.
For gameplay reasons, they should. Besides, shooting kinetic weapons out of an atmosphere as opposed to into one might be a different business. To be honest, all kinetic projectiles should be far less vulnerable to atmospheric conditions than immaterial beams, whether they're coming in or going out.
At any rate, CIWS engage missiles at the last possible moment, so it could be rationalized they fire on their targets to strike them as they enter the planet's atmosphere.