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Re: HBW. My input +

From: Roger Books <books@m...>
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 13:05:02 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: HBW. My input +

On  8-Feb-00 at 13:04, Izenberg, Noam (Noam.Izenberg@jhuapl.edu) wrote:
> From Greame:
> 
> >I don't think they are balanced with p-torps for this reason:
> >If a p-torp is out of arc it cannot fire!
> >If a hbw is out of arc it can't fire, but if it is in arc next turn
it
> fires at 
> >twice efectiveness.
> 
> By Schoon's method that's not true, since the emitter limits the total
> engergy that can be thrown.
> 

The fact that you have two breakdown rolls (emitter or capacitor)
kind of balances the chance of a double shot.

Roger


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