Posted by: sloanjh
« on: May 18, 2014, 08:09:15 AM »The rule of thumb for missiles is "A missile will penetrate armor of a depth equal to the square root of the warhead damage value rounded down."
So a missile that does 16 damage will punch through 4 layers of armor with its crater, a missile that does 25 damage will punch through 5.
To expand on this: "punch through" = "destroy". Hitting undamaged strength-3 armor with a 15 point missile warhead will not do any internal damage (all the damage in the template is in the first 3 layers), while hitting it with a 16 point missile warhead will do one point of internal damage. If the armor were strength 4 or higher the central column would get 4 layers of damage from the 16 point missile.
John