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** Special mention to HMS ''Wayfarer'' and her sisters: converted freighters, sluggish and armored for crap, but carrying super-dreadnought-class main guns capable of carving up a battlecruiser like a roast turkey, [[The Battlestar|a complement of light-attack craft]] capable of laying down significant hurt in their own right, and, oh yeah, the first roll-out of the [[Macross Missile Massacre|Manitcoran Missile Massacre]].
* Not surprisingly, the [[Lensmen]] universe plays with this one, but the vulnerable sluggers are always accompanied by copious numbers of their exact opposite - ships that are all shield and nothing else (sometimes not even a human crew). There are, however, usually large numbers of balanced ships in the same fleet.
* In the ''[[Bolo (literature)|Bolo]]'' books, there are Enemy units that are just counter-grav platforms mounting [[Wave Motion Gun|Hellbores.]] They can be easily swatted by said supertanks, but can be a problem if allowed to attack. They aren't [[One-Hit Kill]]-capable, but the numbers are always on their side.
* Coinshots in ''[[Mistborn]]'' are a kind of [[Master of One Magic|Misting]] who have only one power- the ability to telekinetically shoot metal away from their bodies. This makes them able to dish out a ''ton'' of damage, since a Coinshot with a pouch of money is basically a human machine gun, but they have no greater ability to resist damage than anyone else. Have a half-dozen Coinshots protected by about the same number of Thugs (Mistings who can increase their strength, speed, and durability to superhuman levels) though, and you've got yourself a small but very effective army.
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