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>>12507474
Even keeping the engagement on lasers, the effort you put into armoring every part will reduce the payload significantly and it will be more cost efficient to get a laser to pierce your weakest part than to protect from it.
The best use of a laser would be to blind your target, denying him the possibility to use its laser right as projectiles close by.

Concerning laser spread, it matter little if the effective range is far enough to have all the time you need before the enemy can defend itself.

>>12507480
Depend of the engine but even the Orion's pushing plate can't afford to take a projectile meant to pierce it instead of its pellets calibrated to spread the shockwave evenly.
Redundancy do not help if the enemy still have as much time to disable as many engine as he need.