AI War:Hull Types

This page is up to date for game version 5.032 and is likely out of date.

Every ship in the game has an Hull Type that is what its structural hull is made from.
Most military ships get an Attack Multiplier against 3 or 4 Hull Types. Ships that get no hull bonuses tend to have higher base damage.
In-game when looking at the ship description pop-up, the Hull Type at the end of the second white line as, for example, "Hull: Light".

Note that Attack Multipliers are not tied to the type of ammunition a ship fires, although a ship can be immune to a certain shot type as described in the Ship Immunities page.
How damage is calculated can be found on the Armor page.

The following are all the Hull Types in v. 5.032, along with some examples of ships possessing that hull:

• Artillery – Plasma Siege Starships; long-range fleet ships including Missile Frigates
  
• Close-Combat – Several bonus fleet ships, mostly short-range
  
• Command-Grade – Command stations; Data Centers; rare spoilers. Bombers are the only ordinary ship that get a damage bonus against this hull type, whereas most turrets get a 0.1x damage penalty.
  
• Composite – Several bonus fleet ships
  
• Heavy – Starships including Light, Leech, Riot Control, and Neinzul Enclave; all Spirecraft except Implosion Artillery and Shield Bearers; Hybrid Hives (under their shield modules); Dyson Gatlings
  
• Light – Fighters and similar bonus fleet ships
  
• Medium – Several bonus fleet ships
  
• Neutron – Alien starships (Zenith, Spire, and Core); five bonus fleet ships of which four were introduced in The Zenith Remnant
  
• Polycrystal – Bomber Starships; Bombers and a couple of similar bonus fleet ships. As of v. 5.032, Fortresses get a 0.01x damage penalty against this hull type, so it is recommended that a strike force attacking a Fortress consist only of ships with polycrystal hulls.
  
• Refractive – Cloaker Starships; all types of Mines; various bonus fleet ships that are either cloaked or that boost nearby ships
  
• Scout – Scouts; Scout Starships; Transport Ships
  
• Structural – Ordinary free-standing Force Fields; high-priority immobile targets including Raid Engines and Alarm Posts; Hybrid Hives' shield modules
  
• Swarmer – Several high-cap bonus fleet ships
  
• Turret – All Turrets, including Tractor Beam, Gravitational, Counter Sniper, and Counter Missile
  
• Ultra-Heavy – Fortresses; Golems; Ion Cannons and related structures; a few durable bonus fleet ships
  
• Ultra-Light – Raid Starships; several bonus fleet ships, most well-suited to raiding
  

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