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[Lusankya]

I haven't played too much with armour but is there any real benefit to using FF over standard?

[Koreanese]

It weights less. You should always use endo steel first but if you are building a much that u can afford both off and endo, go for it. Example is my heavy metal. I am able to fit a gauss.and 3 LL into it. It gives me enough space left over to put both endo andoff armourr.

[Burnsidhe]

For light 'mechs, yes.

Odds are in a light 'mech, you're going to have more critical spaces than you can fill with gear like double heat sinks and weapons. For light 'mechs, ferro-fibrous armor makes sense because you can maximize the armor while saving weight. In combination with Endo-steel, there'll be enough weight saved that you can increase the weaponry carried.

For medium 'mechs, it's a maybe. By this point, you have the tonnage to mount quite a bit of gear, but critical spaces become an issue.

For heavy 'mechs, it's rare to use ferro-fibrous. Critical spaces become more important than sheer weight, and the weight savings of f-f are just not that impressive.

For assaults, generally ferro-fibrous is a complete waste and is almost never used, and there are assault builds without endo-steel.

[Gigastrike]

Ferro-Fibrous armor gives you the same protection as normal armor, but for less weight. On the downside, it takes up a buch of slots on your mech.

There really isn't much of a reason to use it if you can't use endo-steel structure as well, since endo-steel always saves more weight.

[Lusankya]

Alright thanks guys .

[Sephyr]

Gigastrike, on 22 April 2013 - 09:41 AM, said:

Ferro-Fibrous armor gives you the same protection as normal armor, but for less weight. On the downside, it takes up a buch of slots on your mech.

There really isn't much of a reason to use it if you can't use endo-steel structure as well, since endo-steel always saves more weight.

Is this still actual?

With the 12% more protection per ton of armour on a let´s say atlas with its 100 points of CT armour ( 3ton ) this benefit could be interesting.

So the Mechlab-description of 12% protection per ton is a dummy...?

[Vxheous]

The description of 12% more protection per ton is misleading, because you can't actually equip more points of armor, only that each point of armor weighs less.

[Xiphias]

Sephyr, on 14 June 2013 - 11:29 PM, said:

Is this still actual?

With the 12% more protection per ton of armour on a let´s say atlas with its 100 points of CT armour ( 3ton ) this benefit could be interesting.

So the Mechlab-description of 12% protection per ton is a dummy...?

It provides more protection per ton, but the total protection that you can get remains the same. So you can have 100pts of standard armor, or 100pts of ferro fibrous armor which will weight less. Total protection remains the same. Ferro fibrous armor does not increase the total protection

[Ningyo]

each ton of Ferro Fibrous armor gives 1.12 x 32 armor points (36)
each ton of standard armor gives 32 armor points

However your mech is still limited to the same max armor on each location.

[Sephyr]

Thanx, that was helpfull