Re: Search for historical presence: Small vessels and the Wall or Line of Battle

On Wed, 15 Sep 1999 15:25:48 -0700, Nathan Pettigrew writes:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jerry Han [mailto:jhan@canoe.ca]
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 1999 3:49 PM
>> To: gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
>> Subject: Re: Search for historical presence: Small vessels 
>> and the Wall
>> or Line of Battle
>
><some stuff snipped>
>> 
>> In FT, that's not true.  A squadron of destroyers with Class 
>> 1 bats, if they
>> can get into range, can seriously damage a BB, a DN, or a 
>> SDN.  It's because
>> the balance between armour and weaponry is different in FT; 
>> in Naval combat,
>> armour is protective, and does not suffer damage while 
>> defending the ship.
>> In FT, screens reduce but do not stop damage, and armour is ablative;

>> eventually, you can get through.
>
>One way to change this might be to rate armor against weapons.
>
>i.e. Class 1 armor prevents all damage by Class 1 beams, acts normally
vs
>higher class beams.
>	Class 2, etc...
>
>higher classes of armor cost more (mass and points).  One would also
have to
>figure out how this would effect damage by pulse torps, SLMs, etc... 
As I
>write this I have visions of an almost invulnerable DD with 1 point of
Class
>4 armor.  If it was costed correctly, that might be all he could carry,
if
>that.
>

Why not do something like:

Class 1 armor stops the first point of damage from any attack for free
(i.e. no boxes lost).  Would require people to roll each weapon
seperately though (i.e. these 3 dice are a class 3, these 2 are a
class 2, etc).

This would have to be VERY expensive though.  

Average Damages at short range.  Assumes screens don't degrade damage
on re-rolls;

	   no screen	1 screen    2 screen	1 armor    2 armor
Class-1      0.8	  0.64	      0.47	 0.299	     0.133
Class-2      1.6	  1.28	      0.94	 0.85	     0.432
Class-3      2.4	  1.92	      1.41	 1.525	     0.898
Ptorp	     3.5	  3.5	      3.5	 2.67	     1.97

So, even armor 1 (in this system) would be much more effective than
screens. 

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