Trouble with plasma weaponry

[deafphantom]

I getting hard time with use plasma against enemy shield. My battleship (Full Upgraded) equipped with four plasma turrets. Two modules of armor and targeting. Battleship did fight with enemy cruiser. Strange about my plasma weaponry is almost no effective against it. Enemy's hit points is not break down even bit. Not make sense. Battleship is designed against cruiser or destroyer. The plasma is design effective against armor but useless against shield. But it should break down to half. I'm confused about this game. Cruiser always owned the battleship.

[johntronz]

As other energy weapons, the plasma as to crush the shield to 0 before dealing damage to the enemy ship hull (it points). So it's pretty useless to me. Go with the rail weapons that completly avoid the shield and make imediate damages.
Believe me, my own cruiser eat anything at breakfast. Fully upgraded, full Rail guns. Targeting, Defense and armore modules.

[deafphantom]

Rail gun is energy weapon same with plasma. I don't understand why different.

[johntronz]

No, rail is Standard guns.

Details here: starpigs.proboards.com/thread/17/weapon-stats

[gmskulls]

It is also likely that the defending cruiser has 1 or both of the shield upgrade modules that give a big additional boost. Plasma does become incredibly powerful when coupled with the pre-battle boosts that give additional shield penetration and disruption, or when the opponent opts for other modules on their capital ships.