Talk:AIF/@comment-12494172-20151203033254/@comment-27797576-20151203200646

Oi, what your effectively making is NOT a ICBM. It's a multi-stage MCM, and you don't really need more than one stage on something designed to hit and destroy ships. And there is also a very big issue with your design. It does not factor in large ships, small ships, surface ships, etc. Sure, it may penetrate, but it will likely do 0 damage unless it hits a vital. And it will be even more underwelming against a capital flying ship, where nothing short of a high powered nuclear warhead(or anything in that spectrum) or crit hit will do any ammount of damage unless used in large quanitities(including D-days and 2040's). And with smaller and/or surface ships, your weapon is likely to over penetrate and do no damage except maybe flooding(in the case of surface ships). Most ships don't have much armor, and rely more on the overall spread of the armor. Conventional MCM's are easily capable of damaging said ships with a estimated 5-10 ton warhead(TNT). When you get to those kinds of warhead sizes, most armor is simply going to cave in to the sheer power, hence why MCM's are overwhelmingly used in RP for any kind of AShM, except with lighter ships, where smaller missiles are used, but for large ships, MCM's are 100% the way to go.