Talk:Plasma Torpedoes/@comment-28216345-20170327142731/@comment-454133-20170327150958

What happens is you roll attack and defense dice normally, and take your damage the normal way (remove shield tokens, apply damage cards only after shields are gone). After all that's done, remove one shield token if they have any left.

This is great against the well-shielded ships like the Upsilon Shuttle and Jumpmaster, because it's basically a free damage against them. But if their shields are already wiped out, or it's a low shield ship anyway, then you're not hurting -- it's a 4 dice ordnance attack for only 3 points.