Are clone-blasters anti-armor?

Lord Revan · Post by **Lord Revan** » 2005-03-18 12:09pm

This something I benn thinking about. Are DC-series blasters special anti-armor blaster, since most of the Clonetroopers targets will be armor by their very nature (being droids). What I mean with Anti-armor is that the bolt would make the majority of its damage after it has penetrated the hard outer shell of a droid. This of course would that they would be weaker against unarmored organics.

What do you think?

Praxis · Post by **Praxis** » 2005-03-18 06:12pm

Considering how they literally blew Droidekas apart, while Padme's dinky blasters only knocked down battle droids, I'd say yes.

I wonder how powerful droid armor actually is. Okay, Battle Droids suck in durability- Jar Jar can kill them. But a Super Battle droid...I wonder if it could take civilian blaster bolts.

Darwin · Post by **Darwin** » 2005-03-18 06:46pm

it would probably take multiple shots from a civilian blaster to bring down a SBD. They are, afterall, up-armored battle droids, there should be good reason for that armor.

Of course, those big DC-15 rifles don't much care. *pow*

The Silence and I · Post by **The Silence and I** » 2005-03-19 07:34am

IIRC a typical battledroid shot (forgot who fired, maybe Padme, maybe a deflected shot from a Jedi) took off a superbattledroid's arm at the elbow. It carried on, but I guess the armor is much weaker there?

Praxis · Post by **Praxis** » 2005-03-19 12:18pm

The Silence and I wrote:IIRC a typical battledroid shot (forgot who fired, maybe Padme, maybe a deflected shot from a Jedi) took off a superbattledroid's arm at the elbow. It carried on, but I guess the armor is much weaker there?

The battledroids have big guns too.

Crazedwraith · Post by **Crazedwraith** » 2005-03-19 12:53pm

How can an energy beam be anti-armour?

It's just very powerful thats all.

Captain Cyran · Post by **Captain Cyran** » 2005-03-19 01:09pm

The Silence and I wrote:IIRC a typical battledroid shot (forgot who fired, maybe Padme, maybe a deflected shot from a Jedi) took off a superbattledroid's arm at the elbow. It carried on, but I guess the armor is much weaker there?

When the smiling Jedi pushes over the droid 3PO's head was on, he fires off a bolt that hits an SBD in the back, that takes it out.

The Silence and I · Post by **The Silence and I** » 2005-03-19 01:43pm

Ah yes, right you are.

Doesn't make things better though. The droids' shots don't cause large explosive ground effects and should only be set high enough to kill a Jedi, yet they puncture the rear armor of a superbattledroid. Why were they armored again?