Re: Boarding combat

Roger Books wrote:

> >  It also favours the attacker
> > quite a bit (quite a bit extra, that is - you don't normally
attempt to
> > board unless you already have the odds in your favour!), since
> > defensive parties will either be mixed or have crew only.
> 
> I don't know, wouldn't having as many marines attacking as navy
> defending (assuming PA for the marines) put the odds heavily in
> the attackers favor anyway?

That's pretty much what I meant with the "you don't normally attempt to
board..." thing above. The attackers should already have a serious
advantage; do they need being boosted by another ~15%?

Thomas's suggestion (reduce crew firepower rather than increase marine
survivability) is good, particularly from the KISS point of view.

> This all assumes that the ship doesn't self-destruct.

In which case the attackers have achieved at least their secondary
objective - ie, to remove the ship from enemy control :-/

Regards,

Oerjan Ohlson
oerjan.ohlson@telia.com

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