Re: Sa'Vasku Lance Pod Effectiveness

The problem is that with the poor accuracy, expenditure of hull, and
power
cost, must ships aren't good targets.  My rule of thumb is does the the
ship have more armor then the top row of boxes.  Why?  Because to
significantly degrade a ships performance, you have to knock it down at
least two rows.  For this purpose, the average damage for Lance Pods is
3
1/3 per hit, not 3.5.  Why?  Because all damage rolls of 1 are going to
be
completely stopped by armor.  This means there are only 9 ships in FB 1
that Lance Pods are effective on.  They aren't effective on the  other
49
warships...

IAS

Oerjan Ohlson wrote:

> Imre A. Szabo wrote:
>
> >I wasn't that far off...  But thanks for the corrected table.   It
> only
> >makes lance pods look even worse...	The biggest problem with lance
> >pods is that most ships don't have enough armor for amor penetration
> >to be of significant use...
>
> The following FB1 ships have "enough armour" for the armour
penetration
> to be significant on average die rolls:
>
> NAC: Vandenburg, Excalibur, Inflexible, Ark Royal
> NSL: All except the Falke, possibly the Waldburg/M, and the Szent
> Istvan and bigger
> ESU: Warsaw, Beijing/B, Voroshilev
>
> I believe there are at least 17 ships with "enough armour" in FB2 as
> well :-/
>
> If you roll a "6" just about any armour heavier than 1 box is enough
> for the penetration to be significant, but you can't count on that all
> the time <g>
>
> Of course, against "most ships" the Sa'Vasku have quite a few other
> weapon options <shrug>
>
> Regards,
>
> Oerjan Ohlson
> oerjan.ohlson@telia.com
>
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