Re: [GZG] House rules, was Monster ships

Eric Foley wrote :

>Hm.  I suppose when I really think about this, you're right.  MT 
>missiles really are kind of overpowered as compared to salvos if you 
>only let them get hit on a 6.	The trouble is, are salvos not just 
>completely better (at least on damage) if you have heavy missiles 
>get hit the same as individual missiles in a salvo? Sure, they might 
>be _smarter_ but if they never get through against even barely 
>adequate point defense, what's the point?  (And by my custom-brew 
>standardss that's loosely defined as, "you can have at least an 
>outside chance of surviving an unassisted strike of about 30 
>fighters in a 5000 NPV game, although maybe not so much if they've 
>got torpedo bombers".)

If you use the FB PD rules, ie. treat each HM as a separate salvo 
with no PD overkills carrying over from one salvo to the next, then 
one SMR is somewhat better damage-wise than 2 MTMs (ie., equal Mass) 
against all but the lightest defences, ranging from 10% better 
against 2 PDSs (per SM salvo/pair of MTMs, that is) up to around 25% 
better against 6 PDSs (but at that point even the SM salvo only 
averages just over 2 pts of damage anyway). Against that the MTMs get 
to pick their target, so you don't have to worry about them dumping 
all their damage into a small escort instead of the dreadnought :-/

If OTOH you *do* allow PD overkills to carry over between missile 
salvoes, then the MT missiles are completely outclassed - doing that 
increases PDS kills on MTMs far, *far* more than it increases PDS 
kills on SMs or fighters. The exact increases depend on the PD 
levels, but generally speaking the PDSs' kill increase from overkills 
in % vs MTMs is around 5 times what it is vs SMs. (That is to say, 
where the re-allocated overkills increase the PDS kill rate vs SMs by 
20%, it'd increase the kill rate vs MTMs by approx. 5x20 = 100% - ie. 
it doubles.)

Later,

Oerjan 

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