Re: [GZG] Small arms tech and troop quality
From: Phillip Atcliffe <atcliffe@n...>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 07:17:00 +0000
Subject: Re: [GZG] Small arms tech and troop quality
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ertson, Brendan wrote:
>> Lanchester's Square Law; basically Combat power = square root of
(lethality * survivability). <<
> The above gave me a bit of an idea. It doesn't work great at TL1 (due
to Sqr function), but after that I like the way the curve works against
the current Q die .
> Effectiveness = Sqr(TechL*Q*Q) <
That's slightly redundant. You're taking the square root of Q squared...
so it's simpler to write it as Q * Sqrt(TL). You get the same answers.
Phil