Re: [FT] Kravak weaponry

John Atkinson wrote:

>Am I the only person underimpressed with MD-5s?

"MD-5"? I assume that you mean the class-5 K-gun (aka "K5"), but I'm not

entirely sure about it.

>I mean, really.  They aren't likely to double

If you do mean the K5 they inflict double damage on 5/6ths of their
*hits*; 
and their hit rate is identical to that of the Roman P-torps. If the K5s

"aren't likely to double", then your P-torps are almost as unlikely to
hit 
in the first place.

>and there's only a couple so each missed dice roll really hurts the KV 
>player.  I'd rather go up against those monsters than those cursed
MD-2s 
>sandpapering away my ships (at an average 3.333 points of damage per
shot).

If the "MD-2s" inflict on average 3.333 pts *per shot*, then either your

"MD-x" family of weapons is something completely different from the FB2 
K-guns or your maths are even more impressively inaccurate than they
were 
last time you ranted about K-gun performance (at which time you blamed
your 
falty maths on your being solidly drunk when you wrote the rant in
question).

K2s inflict an average of 2.667 pts per *hit*, which is a pretty far cry

from the 3.333 pts *per shot* you claim here (unless of course Matt
managed 
to hit with more than 100% of the shots, but I kinda doubt that). In 
comparison the K5 inflicts on average 9.167 pts *per hit*, which is
6.25% 
less than the same Mass of K2 on a per-mass basis but gives a vastly
better 
armour penetration against armoured targets. Sucks if the KV only ever 
fight unarmoured targets like your specialized anti-KV designs, of
course.

FWIW 2 hits from K2s are rather unlikely to exceed the damage from a
single 
K5 hit - it only happens if the K5 fails to double *and* at least one of

the K2s doubles, giving a probability of just under 10%.

Regards,

Oerjan
oerjan.ohlson@telia.com

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