This is a new ship-mounted weapon upgrade:
High Penetration (Double Upgrade): High Penetration weapons are better at breaching armor, and grant +1 damage per die, not to exceed the number of armor points the target is carrying. For example, a High Penetration Pulse Laser would do 2d6+2 damage to a ship with two or more points of armor protection, but only 2d6+1 damage to a ship with one point of armor, and the base 2d6 damage to a ship without any armor at all. This has no effect on black globe generators, nuclear dampers or meson screens. High Penetration may not be added to defensive screens as it has no effect. Meson weapons gain no benefit from this upgrade as they already bypass armor entirely.
So... out of control? must-have upgrade that everyone will take on every weapon? Needs to be a triple upgrade, only available three tech levels after the introduction of the weapon?
ETA: Just re-read the armor piercing rules for handguns, and could have probably used the same language there, about "ignoring one point per die" and saved myself some verbiage.
High Penetration (Double Upgrade): High Penetration weapons are better at breaching armor, and grant +1 damage per die, not to exceed the number of armor points the target is carrying. For example, a High Penetration Pulse Laser would do 2d6+2 damage to a ship with two or more points of armor protection, but only 2d6+1 damage to a ship with one point of armor, and the base 2d6 damage to a ship without any armor at all. This has no effect on black globe generators, nuclear dampers or meson screens. High Penetration may not be added to defensive screens as it has no effect. Meson weapons gain no benefit from this upgrade as they already bypass armor entirely.
So... out of control? must-have upgrade that everyone will take on every weapon? Needs to be a triple upgrade, only available three tech levels after the introduction of the weapon?
ETA: Just re-read the armor piercing rules for handguns, and could have probably used the same language there, about "ignoring one point per die" and saved myself some verbiage.