Meaning of glass cannon | Babel Free

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A character or unit with strong offensive power but weak defensive capabilities.

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“Deep elves die easier than most other races - glass cannons to an extreme extent.”

“A min-maxer might create a "glass cannon" character—one with lots of awesome offenses but next to no defense.”

“Now, both sides had built up their fleet quite extensively with very fast, kind of glass cannon-type destroyers and cruisers in the run-up to the war, buuut the French fleet, at the beginning of World War II, was very definitely - below capital ships, was very definitely a fleet of glass cannons, whereas the Italians, although they had their own share of them, had a number of pretty good designs, like the Zara-class heavy cruisers, so, in destroyers and cruisers, I think the Italians definitely have a qualitative advantage, at least for a good portion of their ships[…]”

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