Re: Salvo Missiles (was UN Ship Nomenklatura)

The cruisers mounted 5 SML launchers each, he had 4 of them.  Each ship
had 2
salvos per launcher.  The cruisers were very specialized as the only
other
weapons were level 2 screens to prevent long range beam fire from
disabling
them.
In the 2nd game, the NAC player had 2 majestic BB's (with a pretty
potent PDS
capability) and 3 escort cruisers with ADFC systems.  The guy with all
the
missiles threw all the salvos from each ship into 1 location (ie. 4
groups of
5 salvos each).  With my slow BB's he hit with ease.  Even against the
NAC
ships, about 50% of the salvos found their mark.  1 NAC BB, 1 escort
cruiser
and 1 frigate were killed outright and the other BB was sorely hurt. 
His
DD's closed in and finished the job.  The ADFC's were simply
overwhelmed.

Tim

BTW: This friday were having another mini tournament.  I'll have a
chance to
see if I learned anything.

Oerjan Ohlson wrote:

> Laserlight wrote in reply to someone else:
>
> > > I was recently on the receiving end of a demonstration on how to
use
> > > SML's.  En Masse.
> > > My opponent had cruiser sized vessels with multiple missle
launchers
> > > (but only 2 loads per launcher).	He could, and did, throw out
enough
> > > SML's in a single turn to overwhelm any defence on any ship.
>
> How many ADFC did you mount?
>
> Wonderful things in a missile- or fighter-dense environment, ADFCs.
Never
> leave home without one per cruiser or larger ship.
>
> [snip]
>
> > Let's say you want a hard kill on a Szent Istvan (60 hull, 14 armor,
4
> > PDS).
> > 1 salvo is absorbed by the PDS suite.
>
> [snip]
>
> You've forgotten two things:
>
> That DN is (or at least should be) escorted by 2-3 Kronprinz Wilhelm
CLs
> or Radetsky CEs, each of which provide another 3 PDS together with one
> ADFC each. If you've placed your SMLs perfectly, they'll all hit the
DN -
> but you're still two salvoes short of destruction (on average, of
> course). Now, if your missile salvoes were *not* perfectly placed,
they
> are in all likelyhood going to attack one of the cruisers. 7 SML
salvoes
> on a cruiser... sort of gives the word "overkill" a new meaning <g>
>
> The DN also carries a fighter group, able to at least weaken a third
> missile group. This effect isn't that important compared to the escort
> ships, though.
>
> Regads,
>
> Oerjan Ohlson
> oerjan.ohlson@nacka.mail.telia.com
>
> "Life is like a sewer.
>   What you get out of it, depends on what you put into it."
> - Hen3ry