RE: Sa'Vasku Lance Pod Effectiveness

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Imre A. Szabo [SMTP:ias@sprintmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 9:14 PM
> To:	gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
> Subject:	Sa'Vasku Lance Pod Effectiveness
> 
> I multilplied the Probability of a hit by 3.5 (average roll on 1d6) to
> get this table.
> 
> Range    Average Damage
> 0-6		2.33
> 7-12	      1.75
> 13-18        1.17
> 19-24        0.583
> 
> The table below is average damage for Sa'Vasku strenght 3 beam shots.
> Note that the actual average damage is a little bit higher then listed
> because I only included the probablity of one re-roll...  Note this
> means average damage for a 1.5 d6 at 13 to 24 mu range...
> 
> Range        No Screens	 Level 1	Level 2
> 0-12		      2.22		  1.83		  1.33
> 13-24 	     1.17		 0.917		 0.67
> 
> I'm not too impressed by what it says about lance pods...
> 
> IAS
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Imre,
Your analysis of the Lance Pod was helpful, but did not address the
strength
of the Lance Pod...its ability to do 1 point of damage to armor and the
rest
to hull (ala K-Gun). However, with your damage example, this would
amount to
only 1 or 2 points of damage to the hull and 1 to armor (not a great
advantage).

I also was not overly impressed with Lance Pods.
They are a poor man's K-Gun:
		Class-1 K-Gun	  Lance Pod
Damage:     1d6 	    1d6
Extra Dmg: 1:6 for x2	    None
Mass:	    2		    3 + 1 per pod fired
Cost:	    8		    9 + 2 per pod fired
Range:	    30" 	    24"
To Hit: 6" RB start at 2+   6" RB start at 3+
Dmg to Firer: None	    1

So, it costs more, masses  more, less damage, less arcs, less range,
less
to-hit probability, reduces the ability to use other systems (uses
power)
and damages the ship firing it. Quite a bargain.
The advantage the pod system has is that it can NOT use the lance pods,
firing leech or interceptor pods instead.

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Brian Bell
bkb@beol.net
http://members.xoom.com/rlyehable/ft/	 
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