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Re: FF

Wed, 02 April 2003 00:17

tprescott

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Another advantage of the FF design over the DD is the arrangement of the weapons.

The FF fires a stack of three weapons at once, and will start destroying stacked ships sooner as it will require less distributed armor damage to reach the point that 3 times the advertised weapon damage exceeds armor remaining per ship in the stack

DDs in effect fire three individual weapon shots per turn. Excluding the capacitor effects, the total damage inflicted is the same but distributed armor damage to a stack must continue until the armor remaining per ship is less than the advertised damage of one weapon before you begin to destroy the ships.

So with DDs:

You have no shields, and therefore fewer combined damage points.
You will receive full damage from the entire enemy stack longer before you begin to reduce the enemy stack.

The combined effect means that the FF design is significantly more effective - unless there is some specific reason that the .25 speed difference is critical for success; possible, but usually not critical I think.

Tom

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