Re: MT missiles and point costs

On 10-Apr-00 at 23:29, Oerjan Ohlson (oerjan.ohlson@telia.com) wrote:
> Roger Books wrote:
> 
> >>>Stastics pop quiz. :)
> >> 
> >> <g> If I had wanted to start a pop quiz, I would've asked for the
> exact
> >> design I'm thinking of - though the above data isn't enough to
> >> determine that, since there are two ships in FB1 which satisfies it
> :-7
> > 
> >Only two with the same hull+armour that meet your requirements?  I
> >would have expected more.
> 
> Only two which fit both the percentages, yes :-)
> 
> >I am a bit surpised though about how you pull a 19% for an EMP
> >missile, you have to assume a distribution of ships with varying
> levels >of shields.
> 
> 19% (OK, 19.444444....%) is the average percentage of systems knocked
> out by an EMP hit against one specific screen level. I've already
> posted which one <g>
> 

I'm not fishing for answers, the fact that this is one shield is
fairly obvious to anyone who has had a statistics class or gamed
enough to need to understand statistics.

I'd work through the other one but my rules are at home.  That is
a fairly obvious (chance of getting the threshold)*(chance of
thresholding a system).  You are rolling two dice for damage.

I personally think the winner in the MT systems is the needle
torp.  Not only do I get a d6 damage but I have a significant
chance of toasting an important system.  (I like my opponents
to be thrust 3 or less. :)

Roger