Re: [DS] Points system (fresh)

On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 07:19:56AM +0200, Oerjan Ohlson wrote:
>The combat effectiveness of a vehicle is essentially the product of the

>damage the vehicle can inflict and how long it survives. The damage it
can 
>inflict is the sum of its weapons; how long it survives is the product
of 
>its likelyhood of getting hit (which is the sum of Signature and
ECM/PDS) 
>and the likelyhood of surviving if it gets hit anyway (Armour rating).

White Dwarf once published something very like a "points system" for D&D
monsters, called the Monstermark; it was, in essence, what you suggest,
but written as "the typical amount of damage this monster will do before
it's killed by a generic first-level fighter". In practice, this was
(mean damage per round) x (mean number of rounds surviving), which
(while being essentially the same as your suggestion) is easier to
calculate... the only problem is in defining the DS equivalent of a
generic first-level fighter.

And, of course, mobility. :-)