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Re: The necessity for missiles

Sun, 17 October 2004 06:49

Micha

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Orca wrote on Sun, 17 October 2004 03:46

Robert wrote on Sat, 16 October 2004 10:07

When fighting SD you cant chaffsweep that easily!

If the minefield is centered at a planet and detonated, and you chaffsweep and attack the same turn, you still get damage from the detonation regardles of how many chaff you use to crash!

No, that means you just didn't use enough chaff to eliminate all the mines. Use more chaff next time.

I didn't believe Robert either, and I remember he brought this up some time ago before and Orca's same response.

I ran a testbed last night, similar to Roberts. 200 chaff crash into a 11ly radius minefield at warp10, less than 100 are needed to sweep the field, the MML in orbit is not adding more mines.

The next turn the minefield is gone, no sweeper ships left in orbit, no battle with the SD ship.
In the message pane I read that several fleets have "completed their assigned orders", which means reaching orbit. They are not there, browsing further through the messages I see: "fleet#x has been annihilated in a standard minefield at Space (x,y)", where (x,y) is where the centre of the minefield was last turn.

Link to testbed.

However! I ran the testbed 10 times and once the fleets where not killed! Weird.
Tried with jRC4, no difference, chaff dies in the non-existent minefield ...

mch

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		Crash sweeping to the centre of a detonating field (split from "The necessity for missiles" By: Robert on Sat, 16 October 2004 13:07
		Re: The necessity for missiles By: Orca on Sat, 16 October 2004 21:46
		Re: The necessity for missiles By: Robert on Sun, 17 October 2004 04:27
		Re: The necessity for missiles By: Micha on Sun, 17 October 2004 06:49
		Re: The necessity for missiles By: Robert on Sun, 17 October 2004 07:31
		Re: The necessity for missiles By: Micha on Sun, 17 October 2004 13:29
		Re: The necessity for missiles By: Robert on Mon, 18 October 2004 02:26
		Re: The necessity for missiles By: mlaub on Mon, 18 October 2004 11:36
		Re: The necessity for missiles By: iztok on Sun, 17 October 2004 16:03
		Re: The necessity for missiles By: multilis on Sun, 17 October 2004 17:39
		Re: The necessity for missiles By: Micha on Sun, 17 October 2004 18:23
		Re: The necessity for missiles By: multilis on Sun, 17 October 2004 21:12
		Re: The necessity for missiles By: Robert on Mon, 18 October 2004 02:31
		Re: The necessity for missiles By: iztok on Mon, 18 October 2004 05:51
		Re: The necessity for missiles By: Orca on Sun, 17 October 2004 18:52
		Re: The necessity for missiles By: mlaub on Mon, 18 October 2004 11:10
		Re: The necessity for missiles By: Micha on Mon, 18 October 2004 14:28
		Re: The necessity for missiles By: LEit on Thu, 28 October 2004 09:55

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