Lusankya hard to beat....obviously...but...

[Rob McMillan]

Hi!

I took the Lusankya into battle earlier today, and it seems like no matter how many ships, fighters, frigates, etc. hit it with firepower (including X-wings with proton torpedoes) it doesn't see any of the hardpoints damaged until AFTER the shields go down. Is there an issue that is different from Forces of Corruption of Empire at War where the shields prevent missiles/torpedoes from doing hardpoint damage through shields? Or is it only on the Executor ships? Or am I missing something?

[Corey]

Proton torpedoes do not penetrate shields. This is both truer to canon, and also prevents bomber spam from being as effective as in the base game (while still being pretty damn effective).

[Rob McMillan]

That makes sense! I always thought proton torpedoes penetrated shields (that's what happens in EAW and FOC), but they probably shouldn't. Thanks for the clarification!

[kucsidave]

That makes sense! I always thought proton torpedoes penetrated shields (that's what happens in EAW and FOC), but they probably shouldn't. Thanks for the clarification!

In fact, there were no other source where this happened anywhere else than EaW.
Just to make a few example. The X-wing game series, Battlefront II, Rogue Squadron (I don't know which one had the Battle of Endor. It was a long time ago I played those games.)
Also, everyone used bombers to simply destroy the Shield Generator on every ship and the station and then brought in the bulk of the fleet

[Rob McMillan]

Do concussion missiles penetrate shields?

[ErikModi]

Do concussion missiles penetrate shields?

Short answer:  Nope.

Long answer:  Star Wars actually has two kinds of shields, ray shields and particle shields.  Ray shields protect from energy, particle shields from matter.  All ships have at least low-grade particle shields (since a speck of dust hitting your hull at a substantial fraction of the speed of light will ruin your day), and almost all ships have heavier particle shields and ray shields.  "Shields up" is shorthand for reinforcing the particle shields to withstand matter weapon attacks, and activating ray shields to protect from energy weapon attacks.  Most games (and in-universe fiction) abstract this to just "shields" that do both, and multiple references to single shield generators indicate that the two systems can be combined into one unit.