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Originally posted by Spoo:
Actually, my ships (not fleet -they were set to break formation) did have point blank strategy. And half of them were cruisers. And we had equal engines tech.
Geo,
You forget that quantum torpedoes do much more damge than PPB. It should only take about TWO hits to cripple one of his ships. The point is I only hit ONE of his ships more than ONCE (even w/ combat sensors 3).
Actually Askan, as SJ points out Qtorps don't do more damage that PBB. Actually they do the same damage at max range. The Qt does 100 damage every 2 turns, and the PBB does 50 damage every turn. And by moving to point blank you actually make it worse for yourself because at point blank the PBB does 60 per turn, so it actually does more damage than the Qtorp. Add to that the fact that the PBB takes up less space, and your enemy has bigger ships, and your numerical "advantage" is getting smaller all the time.
It's impossible to calculate exactly the ratio unless you want to post the ship designs. Or at least how many weapons did each ship have. Then we could calculate precisly the differance in force between fleets. But it's going to be less than 2 to 1. Probably more than 1 to 1. Somewhere between those two would be my guess, with you having the slight edge.
Also remember that each of his ships can do more damage than each of your ships on an individual basis. With 130 ships in a firefight, more of your ships are going to be out of range than his are in any particular turn, simply becasue you have more. So this means he can bring even more fire to bear on the ships that are in range than you can.
Altogether what you have is two fleets that are much more equally match than you thought, with his ships having a large advantage in experience. End result is the rout you ended up with. I still believe if the experience, sensors, so on had been equal, it would have been a close, bloody fight with high damage on both sides. You might have won, but you wouldn't have much left to celebrate with.
One other thing you didn't mention, or if you did I didn't see it, was this a warp point battle? If it was then that could account for some of the difference if your enemy had a lower player number than you. Someone mentioned this before in the thread, but I didn't see if you responded to that point. If so all of his ships would have fired before any of yours did. Probably could have knocked out half your fleet before you got a shot off.
Geoschmo