RE: [GZG] [OFFICIAL] Question to you all.....

Thanks for the data, Beth!

I have one question and one comment:

Question:

>More interesting still was looking at the number of "out of arc"
statements
>recorded, these were consistently 3-4 times more common for those
forces
>with more limited arcs (like the NAC and KV).

3-4 times more common starting from what baseline? There's a huge 
difference between on one hand wide-arc weapons being out of arc 5% of
the 
time while single-arcs are out of arc 15-20% of the time, and on the
other 
wide-arc weapons being out of arc 25% of the time and single-arcs being
out 
of arc 75% of the time. (Or, to put it another way: the important data 
point to compare isn't how many times the weapons *couldn't* shoot, but
the 
number of times they *could* shoot.)

***
Comment:

As you noted you need to get to very close ranges before there's any
real 
risk of not having the target in your preferred arc. In my (less
extensive 
than yours) Vector experience, by the time the wide-arc ships finally do

get close enough for their wider arcs to come into play they've usually 
already lost so heavily to the higher long-range firepower of the 
single-arc ships that the extra shots allowed by the wider arcs are no 
longer sufficient to win them the battle :-(

>Oerjan may have a larger sample selection, but the best bet would be
>some more games.

I have very few fully-recorded Vector battles with complete shooting
data, 
I'm afraid. As always more data would be good!

Later,

Oerjan
oerjan.ariander@telia.com

"Life is like a sewer.
  What you get out of it, depends on what you put into it."
-Hen3ry

_______________________________________________
Gzg-l mailing list
Gzg-l@lists.csua.berkeley.edu
http://lists.csua.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gzg-l