Can someone explain combat in this game?

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Thried to kill two enemy ships with hullplating and 8 points of rail using a fleet with 12 points of lasers and they still won with no losses?  Is there a way to calculate how much firepower I need to destroy a given fleet?  Why couldn't I even damage them when they had no fucking shields?

 

This was the tutorial mission btw.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

Hull plating gives 25% shields, 25% point defense, and 50% armor, so they had beam reduction.  If you had no armor, their first shot did full damage.  If you had one 12 damage ship with 8 hitpoints, you could potentially be a one round kill that did zero damage.  Some defense is very important, and someone with a better grasp of the system will need to explain the details.