As far as I can gather it makes no sense that the missle explosion radius needs to hit the shield generator for it to do damage to the shield as gun do not need to be shot at the shield you just fire at the ship and they work.
Though I know nothing about modding really so this is probaly a worthless post.
Kiggles:mellow:
I've been mildly miffed by one-shot weapons since their implementation, oh so long ago. I remember the days when fights were a matter of who could aim better, rather than who could aim a single shot. - Virus