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It's only direct benefit is that it ignores energy shield and deals damage directly to an enemy's health, often a meaningless advantage, and it doesn't apply status effects.
Source: Infinity+1 Element -
Direct-to-DVD: after the distributor, Yari Film Group, went bankrupt Exposition Diagram: Both the first and the third form apply; George creates a miniature diorama of the museum's floorplan and uses chess pieces and toy soldiers to signify themselves and guards moving through the museum.
Source: Film / The Maiden Heist - Marginally more forgivable in the case of advanced spaceships; the Kzinti Lesson, "A reaction drive's efficiency as a weapon is in direct proportion to its efficiency as a drive", can be made to apply just as well to the ship itself as to other ships.
Source: Self-Destruct Mechanism
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