RE: FT-Number crunching required (HELP)

Beth,

How do you get an average damage of 15.75 from a single MT missile vs no
PDS?
They only get 2 dice of damage, so the MAXIMUM would be 12. Average the
average should be about 7.5 and the mean 7.

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Brian Bell
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Derek Fulton [SMTP:derekfulton@bigpond.com]
> Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 11:57 PM
> To:	gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
> Subject:	Re: FT-Number crunching required (HELP)
> 
> G'day
> 
> Me stealing Derek's email here to correct myself!!
> 
> I forgot to actually multiple my final results by the size of the
K-gun
> (so 
> did the if less then class double damage adjustment, but not the
actual 
> class value stuff.... ugh!)
> 
> The table for an MTM-K3 SHOULD look more like....
> 
> #PDS: 1 SM	3 MTM	 2 MTM	  1 MTM
>      0     12.25     47.25	 31.50	     15.75
>      1      9.75	39.38	  23.63       7.88
>      2      7.62	31.50	  15.75       3.94
>      3      5.85	23.63	   11.81      1.98
>      4      4.39	19.69	   7.88        0.99
>      5      3.24	15.75	   5.92        0.50
>      6      2.36	11.81	   3.94        0.25
> 
> And the K2 version....
> 
> #PDS: 1 SM	3 MTM	 2 MTM	  1 MTM
>      0     12.25     28.00	 18.67	     9.33
>      1      9.75	23.33	  14.00       4.67
>      2      7.62	18.67	  9.33	       2.33
>      3      5.85	14.00	  7.00	       1.17
>      4      4.39	11.67	  4.67	       0.59
>      5      3.24	9.33	   3.51 	0.29
>      6      2.36	7.00	   2.33 	0.15
> 
> So in comparison to the normal MTMs with the table
> #PDS: 1 SM	3 MTM	 2 MTM	  1 MTM
>      0     12.25     21.00	 14.00	     7.00
>      1      9.75	17.50	  10.50       3.50
>      2      7.62	14.00	   7.00        1.75
>      3      5.85	10.50	   5.25        0.88
>      4      4.39	8.75	   3.50 	0.44
>      5      3.24	7.00	   2.63 	0.22
>      6      2.36	5.25	   1.75 	0.11
> 
> You get the Mk-3 version at 2.25x as expensive and the Mk-2 version at

> 1.33x as expensive. Thus the k-3 version costs would be best modelled
by 
> something like Mass 3, Cost of massx4.5, which is a bit difficult
under 
> current FB integer costing system - so k-2 version is probably simpler
to 
> go with at mass 2, cost of massx4.
> 
> OK hopefully I go closer this time!! Sheesh!
> 
> Beth
> 
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