User blog comment:Aghostintheboat/The Official Roleplay Room/@comment-10700122-20140701134252/@comment-27797576-20140708232936

OOC: I know that this is 7 days old, but I know of several flaws with your agument, and the material being used.

One, ice can't survive a 46cm shell unless you have ice 3 ft or so thick, and that is hard to put on a ship. To survive a 204cm gun, you would need a least 100ft of armor, and that will be destroyed quickly, even with the 204cm gun's slow reload(one slavo of 2 or 3 of the guns could easily cut that amount of ice in two, with or without magic.). And the 2000cm could effectivly destroy the ship in one shot, no matter what amount of ice you use(it could be pausible to survive one shot, but you would need at least 2000 ft of pure ice to survive, and it would still put a gaint hole in it(like 60m wide.).).

Lasers would still do damage with heat, not by contact but with going through the material and refracting multiple times. Even if didn't hurt the ship, the crew would be killed on contact with the laser.