Torpedoes vs the Sensop (Electronic Warfare)

[MasterGwydion]

I don't think you can coat missiles with reflec. This is due to-- INSERT QUANTUM HANDWAVIUM REASON HERE.

(See, if you could coat missiles with reflec, you could coat starships with reflec and that would remove lasers from the space combat battlefield. We don't want that.)

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[phavoc]

Yeah. I was thinking they'd need actual Armor against the gauss PD, but the lasers should be easy to defeat with a Reflec coating on all missiles as it states that PDs are too weak to actually do any damage to ships and Reflec blocks ship lasers.

Agreed. I think any missile coated with reflec would, at most, take an extra hit to be destroyed. Ideally you engage at longer range with counter-missiles and your point-defense are your last-ditch fire against them. Shooting physical rounds at a missile (that's not maneuvering) is gonna make it much harder than say for a gatling laser to hit it. Even a glancing blow with an energy source could be enough to alter its course so that it doesn't have an optimal target solution. A stand-off bomp-pumped laser wouldn't make much difference as it's gonna be making a terminal maneuver to line up with the target anyways before detonation. Only rounds that are needing to make a direct hit would be affected (or in game terms would receive a negative dice mod when rolling for hit(s).

 

[Condottiere]

If energy delivered by a laser hit diverts the course of a missile, being smart, it would self correct.

Unless, it's at a range where being smart no longer applies.