User blog comment:Aghostintheboat/The Official Roleplay Room/@comment-32153758-20140708230530/@comment-11135771-20140713194514

Not really scrapping anything, just retiring them from active service since they're extremely ineffective against ships with armor rings. They're still pretty good against anything which uses a conventional armor layout. But for my next generation of vanilla ships I may have figured out something which will work as well or better than the armor ring, so future warships will be built using that if it's successful, or using the armor ring and modified versions of it if not.

P.S. Laelaps... I don't know. It should be extremely tough, as it has an armor ring, reverse raised edge design, and a runway umbrella, but it's just not nearly as effective as it should be. It melts to even a few torpedo hits, and does this weird thing with getting stuck underwater and not wanting to resurface if it takes too much damage or gets rammed. A decent ship overall, but Kraken is much more reliable.