Mines

Apparently, I _could_ be fashed after all.

For a single mine, the current damage probabilities
on unshielded and heavily-shielded ships are:
Mine	     No shields   Level-3 shields
Damage
0		9/36	      25/36
1	       12/36	      10/36
2	       10/36	       1/36
3		4/36	       0/36
4		1/36	       0/36

The probability that a ship will escape ANY damage from
 a given mine's attack is 25% for unshielded ships and 
just over 69% for Level-3 shields!

A Superdreadnought can therefore lumber straight through
 most practicable minefields, presumably making a derisive 
snorting noise as it does so.

Mines as they stand are utterly useless.  In addition to
1d6 damage, I'd suggest they should ignore shields, so that 
they give even the big ships pause for thought, and make 
mineweepers more attractive.

cheers
Rob Paul
 
"Rob Paul
NERC Institute of Virology 
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rpaul@worf.molbiol.ox.ac.uk
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