Description
Replaceable Armor Cassettes lets damaged protection be exchanged in forward facilities without rebuilding the hull. Survive damage, repair away from home, and win campaigns that exhaust lighter fleets and fragile logistics.
Benefits
Wages Empire-wide-3%
Fleet Repair Tender Unlocks
Defensive Fleet role
Strategy notes
Replaceable Armor Cassettes develops the Armor discipline within Armored Attrition Fleet. Survive damage, repair away from home, and win campaigns that exhaust lighter fleets and fragile logistics. Its immediate value is -3% fleet wages; unlocks Cruiser. The principal counterpressure is that armor-piercing weapons, mobility, blockade, and economic warfare can avoid or outprice a prolonged slugging match.
Player hints
This tier begins to define an empire. Compare its resource demand with the other technologies competing for your laboratories. Favor this technology when its Armor benefits reinforce your current economy, fleets, or frontier. Pause the branch if its expected RP per tick is too diluted or its resource costs would stall higher-priority projects.
Research cost
8KRP
4.4KCredits
3.6KCommon
2.2KRare
1.4KStrategic
1.2KFuel