AI War:Zenith Polarizer

Has high armor piercing, and does higher damage to ships with more armor.

Base Stats

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Ship Cap	Ammo Type	Armor Type	Immunities	Damage Bonuses
192	Dark Matter	Neutron

Mark	Damage	Attack Range	Reload	Health	Armor	Speed	Engine Health	Single Ship DPS	Ship Cap DPS	Ship Cap HP	Abilities
I	2	3,600	4 sec	780	4	72	100	1 dmg/sec	96 dmg/sec	149,760	Does More Damage To Heavily Armored Targets Armor Piercing 9,999
II	4	3,600	4 sec	1,570	9	72	100	1 dmg/sec	192 dmg/sec	301,440	Does More Damage To Heavily Armored Targets Armor Piercing 9,999
III	6	3,600	4 sec	2,350	13	72	100	2 dmg/sec	288 dmg/sec	451,200	Does More Damage To Heavily Armored Targets Armor Piercing 9,999
IV	8	3,600	4 sec	3,140	18	72	100	2 dmg/sec	384 dmg/sec	602,880	Does More Damage To Heavily Armored Targets Armor Piercing 9,999
V	10	3,600	4 sec	3,900	22	72	100	3 dmg/sec	480 dmg/sec	748,800	Does More Damage To Heavily Armored Targets Armor Piercing 9,999

Mark	Knowledge	Metal Cost	Crystal Cost	Total Cost	Energy Cost	Build Time	Cap Metal Cost	Cap Crystal Cost	Cap Total Cost	Cap Energy Cost	Cap Build Time
I	--	400	400	800	100	00:00:04	38,400	38,400	76,800	9,600	00:06:24
II	2,500	800	800	1,600	200	00:00:07	76,800	76,800	153,600	19,200	00:11:12
III	4,000	1,600	1,600	3,200	200	00:00:14	153,600	153,600	307,200	19,200	00:22:24
IV	Adv Fac	2,400	2,400	4,800	200	00:00:20	230,400	230,400	460,800	19,200	00:32:00
V	Core Fab	3,200	3,200	6,400	200	00:00:27	307,200	307,200	614,400	19,200	00:43:12

How to use in your fleet

Polarizers inflict tremendous damage on enemies with 40 armor or higher. For comparison, base and bonus cap DPS are shown for Fighters (blue) and Bombers (purple).

Polarizers are mostly picked for their unique damage ability, as they paradoxically do more damage to armored ships such as Bombers, Raid Starships and Armored Golems. What this may also mean is that they do more damage against the armored ships of higher marks - most mark upgrades come with linearly higher armor as well, increasing the damage boost.

Having stated that, Polarizers will not perform as well in general combat situations, because plenty of bonus ship-types have no armor. Thankfully, they're only twice as expensive as Fighters, and have similar speed. The exact damage as a function of armor is as follows:

• Polarizer multiplier = sqrt(target_armor*100) * effective_armor_boost [almost always 1]
• Minimum multiplier: 4 (so damage is non-negligible against targets with zero armor)
• Maximum multiplier: 100 (so 100 or higher armor is the same result)

This directly translates to 38K~940K Cap-DPS due to their max armor piercing. The maximum DPS is higher than almost all other fleetships: only Vorticular Cutlasses and near-full Powerslavers can out-DPS them. So, to compare with other ship-types the final DPS of Polarizer-Is are:

• Most Spire bonus fleetships - 38K (they have no armour!)
• Fighter-Is & M. Frig-Is - 163K (17x multiplier)
• Bomber-Is - 326K (35x multiplier)
• Bomber-IVs - 652K (69x multiplier)

It is unknown how this works with Armor damage or Planetary Armor Inhibitors.

How to counter when in the AI fleet

Not the strongest AI-ship of the pack. With no immunities and short range, it is not difficult to eliminate these before they reach your turrets. An early unlock by the AI gives a strong hint to the player: don't put Hardened Force Fields on the front line.

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