Voidborne Tactics

Could you reconsider the originality/depth score based on the underlying mechanics? The damage model alone is deeply interconnected, and this is only a surface-level overview:

The damage model is highly layered rather than a simple HP calculation. A single shot goes through several interacting systems:

1. Hit calculation: weapon/hull/sensor accuracy vs. target hull/engine evasion, modified by range, formation, cards, crew condition, and point defense for missiles.

2. Damage calculation: weapon damage scales with the weapon's own condition, then stacks modifiers from traits, reactor, admiral bonuses, formation, intel, cards, and critical effects.

3. Layered defenses: damage then passes through facing modifiers > shields > armor > hull/crew > components. Shields use damage-type resistance and generator health; armor combines flat reduction, percentage reduction, degradation, penetration, bypass, and armor-shred mechanics. If a defensive layer fully blocks the hit, processing stops entirely.

4. Internal damage: successful breaches can simultaneously damage hull, crew, and ship systems. Weapons, sensors, engines, shields, and reactors all become less effective as they are damaged. Destroyed engines prevent movement, crew losses reduce accuracy/evasion, and a ship whose crew reaches 0 becomes disabled rather than destroyed. Disabled ships can still be attacked or captured, and certain cards or ship traits can restore enough crew to bring them back into the fight. Reactor destruction can also cause catastrophic secondary damage.

5. Traits and cards change the rules: they can bypass shields or armor, increase component-hit probability, target specific systems, disable ships through crew loss, revive disabled ships, trigger boarding/capture, stack meltdown or corruption effects, or cause multiple component hits.

This creates cascading outcomes rather than simple damage-per-turn math: damaging a sensor makes future shots less accurate; damaging an engine lowers evasion; crew casualties weaken both; disabling a ship can temporarily remove it from combat without destroying it; armor degradation makes later attacks increasingly dangerous; and a reactor hit can cripple an otherwise surviving ship.

And this is only the surface-level overview. Each of these systems goes considerably deeper, with its own traits, modifiers, exceptions, counters, and interactions with the other layers. The complexity comes not just from the number of mechanics, but from how interconnected they are and how damage to one system changes the behavior of several others.

So even one attack can involve accuracy/evasion, range, facing, damage type, weapon condition, multiple defensive layers, component health, crew state, critical effects, traits, cards, and secondary damage - all interacting in the same resolution.