Talk:Landing Castle/@comment-98.154.223.128-20140912062027

Armor isn't all or nothing. Even if the main hull is mostly impervious to hits from conventional terran weaponry there are still going to be countless 'soft' targets outside of its protection. Things like radar arrays, radio masts, and other equipment that may be able to retract into the hull but not at a moment's notice. Given that the Martian's are advanced but resource poor and at the end of an extremely long supply chain they probably don't want to take any chances of letting their supply bases suffer damage.

As for why the Laser Kat took out the missiles, it was as easy as swatting a fly for him with a weapon with infinite ammo while the Landing Castle would probably be like the Sky Carrier and have to expend more conventional, and far more limited, ordinance to shoot them down.

In any case this is just speculation for now. Seeing as Saazbaum is bringing his own Landing Castle down on the biggest remaining Hornet's nest on Earth we'll probably get to see if the Castles are just giant targets or formidable adversaries in their own right soon enough.