Ship was advertised as heavily armored. The Q&A states specifically: The Valkyrie is the better comparison size-wise. Regardless, the Paladin is well armored and able to take a significant amount of incoming fire. However, with 4.7 underway and the new armor system unveiled it looks like there was a miss when implementing these functions: Valkyrie: 22,275 HP / 92 deflection physical / 49 deflection energy Paladin: 17 325 hp / 92 deflection physical / 49 deflection energy So, not only is the Paladin matching the Armor of the "lesser armored" variant, but has worse overall HP. Yes, the Paladin DOES have more shields, but the messaging was clear throughout the Q&A and ship advertising material: the Paladin trading agility for raw firepower and speed for armor Could someone on the balance team do a once over and look at ships that were advertised as heavily armored but which did not gain any armor benefits over variants / similar ships which ended up in the same armor class? The Paladin right now is worse thank many heavu fighters against energy weapons. It stands to reason that a gunship of this size shouldn't be so vulnerable.