User blog comment:Marcboy99/Phasers and Torpedoes/@comment-27797576-20141215210616/@comment-27797576-20141215215700

That's because that's when the sheilds fail(that's where the MAJORITY of your 'so called' armor is, they are litteraly made of sheet metal after that), the majority of the low power ones are absorbed, so don't say that either, it normally took a high power shot to even disable the shield, but after that, just about ANY shot would kill the ship very very quickly.