RE: Size Class Escalation -- How high in Mass?

 
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Now try it with 2 mass 80 cruisers and 4 mass 40 destroyers.
Even worse.
And as was indicated, the force of smaller ships begin to loose
systems much quicker than the force of larger ships even if they
trade damage for damage.
Then the force of larger ships begin to deal out much more damage
than the force of smaller ships (due to losses to thresholds). 
And there is the Reach problem. Smaller ship cannot/don't have the
longer range weapons of the larger ships, to they take damage from
the larger ships while getting into rang of thier own weapons.

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From: owner-gzg-l@lists.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
[mailto:owner-gzg-l@lists.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU]On Behalf Of David
Griffin
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 16:25
To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
Subject: Re: Size Class Escalation -- How high in Mass?

[snip]
Ok, 260 mass vs. two 130 battleships, or thereabouts.
My 260 has 6 type 4's and 4 pulse torpedoes (if I
remember right). My Battleship has 2 type 4's, 2
type 3's and 2 pulse torpedoes. At band 4 the
battleships fire 2 dice apiece (1.6 pts) and
the SDN fires off 6 dice (4.8 points). At band 3,
the BB's fire 6 dice apiece (4.8 points) and the
SDN gets 12. Once their in 30, it goes to 4.8 +
1/6(3.5) = 5.38 vs. about 6.

Now since these totals are relatively small 
relative to hull, it's not so bad yet. As soon
as they come into close range though, the effect
you talk about gets a lot worse. Battleships 
fire off 14 dice of beams and 2 pulse torpedoes 
apiece while the SDN has 24 dice and 4 pulse 
torpedoes. Each BB has about 34 hull and about
5 points of armor. The SDN has about 68 hull and
about 8 points of armor.

14 dice do an average of 11.2 points of damage.
24 dice do about 19. At close range, the torpedoes
probably all hit, so you add 7 to the BB's and 14 
to the SDN.

So, the effect is worse up close where the damage
is more severe. It's worse with smaller classes
of ships (60 vs. 30 is worse than 200 vs. 100). It's
worse if there are fewer ships in the engagement.
All these things seem to amplify the advantage of
a big ship.

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