Engineers Armor alloys and armor mode for Python

[Oggy85]

I'm finally upgrading armor on it and I was thinking about military grade armor moded with light weight G5 blueprint. I had a decent roll and lost 45% of mass, got ~10 increase in resistance across all 3 types and all of that for loss of 7% hull points. not a big deal I think. Was also thinking about heavy duty G5 but I am a bit concerned for additional mass increase. FWIW, armor is not the primarily defence (I have good shields and enough SCB). With some of moded HRP (heavy duty grade 5) I have around 1800 hull points and all resistances are on the positive side including the explosive.

I know Python is not primarily a fighting ship and that there are better choices around but I like it because I can break from CZ, RES farming and jump into smuggling without changing anything on it (boost speed is around 450 with G5 DD mode).

Anyway curious to see how you moded yours, but any experience with other ships with light weight vs heavy duty, military vs reactive vs mirrored alloys is more than welcome.

Thanks

 

[DocPossible]

I do the same on most of my ships - military armour with a lightweight mod. I generally only go for G1 or G2 and have got a secondaries on some of them which increased hull, rather than reducing it. I'm going to put a G5 Heavy mod on my gunship though, since that thing already weighs a lot and steers like a brick

My T9 just got reinforced alloys with a G5 Heavy mod - which is better than unmodded military, weigh less and keeps the rebuy down.

AspX and DBX have no armour with a G5 Heavy mod too - no weight increase with all the benefits.

 

[Starman 1966]

For my dedicated combat vessel (Fed Vette) I went with a G5 thermal resist mod on reactive surface composite. This gives a decent hull buff plus - even more important IMHO - a nice increase in all three resistance types. This effect is further augmented by two G5 heavy duty hull reinforcement modules.

For exploring vessels it's a no-brainer, just do a G5 heavy duty mod on the standard lightweight alloy as DocPossible has suggested.

Your choice of a G5 light weight military armour sounds like a reasonable compromise for a multirole python.

 

[Gunnet]

Any ship I don't plan on getting shot at in gets heavy duty on the stock weightless armour. Any ship that needs armour gets reactive composite with thermal resist.

Military composite with heavy duty or lightweight is perfectly viable, but I personally find it a bit too much of a compromise for any ship. If weight is enough of a concern to go for lightweight, it's not a combat ship and stock armour with heavy duty would probably be better. If armour is enough of a concern to go for heavy duty, it's a combat ship and would be better off with thermal resist reactive and one or more HRPs.

 

[CptXabaras]

got reactive composite with G5 Thermal mod on it, if i use it for fighting i add modded HD HRP.

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For my dedicated combat vessel (Fed Vette) I went with a G5 thermal resist mod on reactive surface composite. This gives a decent hull buff plus - even more important IMHO - a nice increase in all three resistance types. This effect is further augmented by two G5 heavy duty hull reinforcement modules.

For exploring vessels it's a no-brainer, just do a G5 heavy duty mod on the standard lightweight alloy as DocPossible has suggested.

Your choice of a G5 light weight military armour sounds like a reasonable compromise for a multirole python.

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[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

I actually just modded my stock hull with heavy duty, I forgot which grade, probably 3~.

My shields are good enough to not actually need a strong hull, and rarely fail, so it's not worth the downsides.

The additional speed, agility and jump range are more beneficial to me.
And the lower rebuy of course.

Done the same on my Anaconda. I've yet to lose shields on that thing, and it's not even half done. Lol

 

[goemon]

lightweight bulkheads heavy duty modded. no mass increase, and still 50% more hull and added resistances. i'm not sure when was the last time my low power class 6 bi-weave on that multipurpose/mission running python failed the last time.

 

[NightProwler]

lightweight bulkheads heavy duty modded. no mass increase, and still 50% more hull and added resistances. i'm not sure when was the last time my low power class 6 bi-weave on that multipurpose/mission running python failed the last time.

Same here.