Lets get one thing out of the way first, I wish we had the old Boron back.

Now on to a guide that will seem empty without the most overpowered thing in the game.

Armor is the only thing keeping your crew and reactors from being destroyed by the hellish conditions prevasive on the battlefeild, it is also very expensive. (sorry in advance to spaceship crews in buget navies)

There are several types of armor but they fall into 3 distinct catagories

Wipple sheilds: Quick rundown that I am sure many more advanced players have heard. Wipple sheilds (a thin layer of armor 25cm-1m from the main hull) cause a projectile to shatter and turn to plasma, this spreads the projectile out over a larger area of the inner armor, reducing damage.

Tin (1/4 cm to 1/2 cm)
Aluminum (1/4 cm to 1/2 cm)
Really any cheap not shatter crazy metal (highish ultimante tensile strength but lowish yeild strength) you can find
I've played with other materials but tin or titanium carbidde (so I don't need a dedicated nuke layer) are my go to wipple sheilds. Increase the amount to deal with faster larger projectiles.


The next type of armor is your bulk armor, this is what most of your armor layer is made of, should be dense, strong, and cheap.
RCC, vanadium chromium steel, UHWPE fiber (if you can aford it), or Boron filament all tend to work well.

The final layer is more optional, anti energy armor
This devides into 2 catagories
1 Anti nuke armor: Titanium carbide
2 Anti laser armor: nitrile rubber, aramid fiber, or graphite

When In doubt use amiphorus carbon for everything but bulk armor


I hope this helps
Thanks for reading

This guide is in it's 1.3 version, suggest upddates below