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Are clone-blasters anti-armor?
Posted: 2005-03-18 12:09pm
by Lord Revan
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?
Posted: 2005-03-18 06:12pm
by Praxis
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.
Posted: 2005-03-18 06:46pm
by Darwin
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*
Posted: 2005-03-19 07:34am
by The Silence and I
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?
Posted: 2005-03-19 12:18pm
by Praxis
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.
Posted: 2005-03-19 12:53pm
by Crazedwraith
How can an energy beam be anti-armour?
It's just very powerful thats all.
Posted: 2005-03-19 01:09pm
by Captain Cyran
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.
Posted: 2005-03-19 01:43pm
by The Silence and I
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?