| Re: need advice |
Sun, 22 June 2008 19:06   |
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| beanspoon wrote on Sun, 22 June 2008 17:52 |
Let me get this straight - chaff minesweeping is sending lots of small ships through the minefield to sweep the mines...am I right?
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Correct. typical chaff is either scout or FF with QJ5 & X-ray. Each piece of chaff that hits a mine does a given amount of damage to the MF as follows:
# mines mines destroyed
over 5000 1%
1000-5000 50
200-1000 5%
under 200 10
The tool http://starsautohost.org/files/ChaffMine.zip calculates the average # chaff needed.
The chaff should travel all the way thru the MF or the full warp distance (eg. if you select warp 9 the chaff should travel 81ly) for maximum MF damage (I thought that Chaffmine expected that but Micha says that the calc is to the centre of the MF).
Micha also pointed out that the warp used needs to match the distance traveled - eg. if you select warp 10 then distance should be 82-100ly, if you select warp 9 then distance should be 65-81ly, etc. I thank Micha for improving my knowledge on that one too.
One more thing: the chaff should have fleet IDs lower than the warships you seek to protect.
[Updated on: Sun, 22 June 2008 19:09] Report message to a moderator
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