History PlayingWith / PointDefenseless

** The PD blows the missiles into pieces... but these missiles are so big that, due to InertiaIsACruelMistress, the fragments remain big enough that they keep on coming and still hit.[[note]]This mirrors a concern the US Navy had about intercepting Soviet antiship missiles, which were massive.[[/note]]

* '''Exploited''': ???

** A {{Genre Savvy}} {{Ace Pilot}} realized that the fighters would get torn to shreds by the capships point defenses, and therefore had an inside man sabotage the targeting systems.

** Bigger ships "soften up" the PD from afar, allowing the strikecraft to close in for the killing blow.

** The PD blow the missiles into pieces... but these missiles are so big that, due to InertiaIsACruelMistress, the fragments remain big enough that they keep on coming and still hit.[[note]]This mirrors a concern the US Navy had about intercepting Soviet antiship missiles, which were massive.[[/note]]

** The PD destroy the missiles... but due to InertiaIsACruelMistress, they keep on coming and still hit.

I know you can't hit a barn's broad side even with all the gosh-darned weapons aboard this friggin' ship firing at unison, but: Could you try to hit the next link and return to PointDefenseless?

** The ships have the opposite problem - they are practically immune to strikecraft and missiles. However they fail against the slower tracking high powered guns - logistics force them to be too large to be able to dodge well enough and they can't deflect let alone overpower the projectiles with their point defenses.

* '''Double Subverted''': However, the AcePilot still manages to weave through the wrecks of the RedshirtArmy and deliver the killing blow.

* '''Double Subverted''': However, the AcePilot manages to weave through the wrecks of the RedshirtArmy and deliver the killing blow.

* '''Zig Zagged''': The PD systems have inconsistent performance. Some days they can't hit a single redshirt, other days even {{Ace Pilot}}s die en masse to them and still other days it's anything in between.

* '''Invoked''': The capital ship had its PD targeting computers downgraded to a cheaper model so more money could be spent on other equipment.
* '''Exploited''': A {{Genre Savvy}} {{Ace Pilot}} realized that the fighters would get torn to shreds by the capships point defenses, and therefore had an inside man sabotage the targeting systems.

* '''Exploited''': A genre-savvy ace pilot realized that the fighters would get torn to shreds by the capships point defenses, and therefore had an inside man sabotage the targeting systems.

* '''Conversed''': "Isn't it strange that the hero never gets hit by those turrets, even though that's their only purpose?"

* '''Invoked''': ???
* '''Exploited''': ???

* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???

* '''Inverted''': Point defences are so good at tearing apart massive swarms of strikecraft, {{Macross Missile Massacre}}s, even unpowered MoreDakka no matter how randomly-dodging, fast-moving or stealthy that the only way to fight is with uninterceptable energy weapons.
* The ships have the opposite problem - they are practically immune to strikecraft and missiles. However they fail against the slower tracking high powered guns - logistics force them to be too large to be able to dodge well enough and they can't deflect let alone overpower the projectiles with their point defenses.

* '''Defied''': The dreadnaught's early prototypes are seen marked for redesign due to the PD problems in simulations.

* '''Downplayed''': ???

* '''Defied''': ???

I know you can't hit a farm's broad side even with all the gosh-darned weapons aboard this friggin' ship firing at unison, but: Could you try to hit the next link and return to PointDefenseless?

** Capital-grade guns optimised for hurting other capships can't track fast enough to hit small strikecraft.

* '''Deconstructed''': The inability of battleships to deal with strikecraft leads to a switch to GlassCannon carriers and fighter-centric paradigms, like with wet navies.
* '''Reconstructed''': ???

* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

I know you can't hit a farm's broad side even with all the gosh-darned weapons aboard this friggin' ship firing at unison, but: Could you try to hit the next link to return and PointDefenseless?
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Back to PointDefenseless. <Need a witticism>

* '''Played For Drama''': ???

* '''Inverted''': Point defences are so good at tearing apart massive swarms of strikecraft, {{Macross Missile Massacre}}s, even unpowered MoreDakka no matter how fast-moving or stealthy that the only way to fight is with uninterceptable energy weapons.

* '''Inverted''': Point defences are so good at tearing apart massive swarms of strikecraft, {{Macross Missile Massacre}}s, even unpowered MoreDakka that the only way to fight is with uninterceptable energy weapons.

* '''Averted''': Point defenses exist, and have a very good chance at taking down strikecraft and missiles.

* '''Averted''': ???

* '''Lampshaded''':

* '''Exaggerated''': ???

* '''Deconstructed''': ???

* '''Zig Zagged''': ???