[IDEA] Advanced Armor Damage Propagation/Penetration System

while projectile velocity might be parameter when it comes to calculating damage this actually a good idea but the idea that i am trying to propose here has nothing to do with projectile velocity its all about disturbing damage among multiple blocks when the block got a hit.

Let's try a different damage mechanism: the armor consists of several layers of small cubes, each of which has resistance 10. The projectile has an energy of 100.

On a hit, the projectile is destroyed, as is the hit block.

However, the energy cannot be lost - 90 units of energy remain, which are divided between the projectile fragments and the armor block fragments as follows:

- 50% of the energy (45 units) hits the second layer block immediately behind the destroyed block.

- 50% of the energy (45 units) hits the 8 second layer blocks around the middle block, and each block takes a hit for 5.625 units of damage. The blocks endure, the damage does not spread further to the sides.

The middle block of the second layer is destroyed by a 45 unit hit, creating new debris with 35 units of energy:

- 50% of the energy (17.5 units) hits the block immediately behind the destroyed block.

- 50% of the energy (17.5 units) hits 8 blocks around the middle block, so each block takes a hit for 2.1875 units of damage.

The middle block of the third layer is destroyed by the hit, creating 7.5 units of energy debris.

- 50% of the energy (3.75 units) hits the block immediately behind the destroyed block.

- 50% of the energy (3.75 units) hits 8 blocks around the middle block, each for 0.46875 units...

or the entire energy will be absorbed by the middle block...

Projectile pierced armour - nine "new" projectiles form in free space at the point of exit, the central one pointing in the original direction and carrying 50% of the residual energy, and eight pointing sideways at 45° from the axis, each carrying 6.25% of the residual energy after piercing the armour.

Gap in armour (missing layer of armour):

- The energy in the projectile's original direction of movement is unchanged (50%) and hits the central block in the next layer.

- energy directed sideways does not change (50%), but the number of blocks hit increases by +1 in each direction (so to 24 blocks + 1 central block)

Or the mechanism for the plot after armor breach is used.

Projectile side impact - if several blocks are hit simultaneously by one object, the projectile damage is divided equally between all hit blocks.

Oblique impact - nothing happens, what goes outside the armor, goes outside the armor... Thus no ricochets

Penetrating projectile - a greater proportion of the energy (66-75%) is directed in the direction of projectile movement, a smaller proportion (25-33%) is directed sideways.

Another problem arises when simulating large block shooting:

A small block (25cm) has a resistance of 10 units. A large block (2.5m) of the same material theoretically has a resistance of 10,000 units (because it has the same volume as 1,000 small blocks). A missile hit with an energy of 100 units will only damage the big block to 1% of its resistance!

The drawings show a long slender projectile, apparently it is supposed to be an APFSDS. The thing is, APFSDS projectiles are useless in space, they require an atmosphere to function in order to maintain stability.

Only stabilization by rotation is possible. And a rotationally stabilized projectile is limited in the length to a maximum of 6 projectile diameters (or a maximum of 6 diameters of the heavy core).

Spawlling? Yes please, though with a few adjustments...

-First, spawl-projectiles shouldn't spawn their own spawl-projectiles when they break things, if they do then you don't have spawl, you have a runaway nuclear reaction.

-Second, a block's spawl-projectiles probably shouldn't absorb more of a projectile's damage than they have in hp, the shreds of a sheet of paper or piece of plastic that go flying after someone fires a cannon through them tend not to absorb or carry energy well.

It may not be pretty mechanism, but we only have armor composed of small individual blocks, not a large homogeneous sheet of armor. I can't think of a simpler way to transfer energy or damage into the depths of the armor and onto other blocks than a mechanism to create secondary shrapnel or fragments.

It's not a physically quite correct mechanism (nor armor composed of small individual blocks), but it seems to me computationally the simplest and most versatile .