| Re: AR and Smart Bombing |
Mon, 22 January 2007 10:16   |
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| Iconian wrote on Mon, 22 January 2007 07:45 |
Now, something a bit different:
If an HP that didn't have access to viral bombing was trying to capture a planet with facilities intact, couldn't they just use a bunch of smarts and Lady Finger Bombs, even if they do have Cherries? The smarts would get the % kill, and LFB's would have miniaturized costs over Cherries and be lighter for gating/fuel, they'd get the min kill while taking out fewer installations.
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Iztok already told somewhere that the most thinkable idea there is to have fleet that destroys not all the facilities + packets.
Let me describe it in more detail then? First bombing.
It does not matter if LBU or Cherry are used the idea is that not all the defenses are left after bombing.
Lets say youre genius and estimate the amount of facilities after bombing very accurately so that 50 Planetary shields 50% facilities and 600 000 pop are left and bombers go to next place.
To finish the job are 2 packets of 3500kT from 200ly distance at warp 12 that hit before new defenses are built next turn (so were tossed same turn you entered the orbit with bombers).
First Packet Hits  27 Planetary shields, 50% facilities and 320 000 pop left
Second Packet Hits 0 Planetary shields, 50% facilities and 19 000 pop left
Now it is time to drop pop or bomb virally depending on PRT. 
As for LFB ... LFB minimum kill kicks in only with below 50 000 pop planets (otherwise 0.6% is bigger than 300). Below 50 000 pop operates less than 20 defenses so it is usually simpler to pop-drop with LF of pop anyway.  The only exception is AR who cant pop-drop so i have practiced to bomb them little planets virally with AR.
If to compare versus over 50 000 pop planets then LFBs do not save noteworthy amount of installations compared to Cherries anyway; you need them more so need more fuel to drag them along and also fleet cost is more than twice bigger. Actually LFBs are probably below the breakpoint where packet is better investment. 
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