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Djuice said:
What i know of the affects HEAT penetration, Warhead Size, Weapon Size and Survivability.
I test fired a SAGGER AT-3 9M14 with a penetration value of 40, and warhead size of 3 and weapon size of 1. The target was a Leopard 2A6 with frontal turret HEAT value of 130, with Survivability of 6.
100 Fired, 65 hit, 21 were non-penetrating, and 44 were sucessful. Average penetration value was 46 with highest @ 51 and lowest @ 12.
The next thing i did was decrease the warhead size to 2 and tested it again.
100 Fired, 67 hit, 22 were non-penetrating, and 45 were sucessful. Average penetration value was 47 with highest @ 53 and lowest @ 5.
What other settings affects how HEAT type penetration are calculated?
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We are not allowed to tell you what the SSI-based formulae are, in any detail, due to contractual obligations with SSI on the release of the code.
1) HEAT penetration is the
prime variable, naturally
2) Weapon size is used for reloading from ammo units, so is irrelevant to your testing.
3) Warhead size can add to penetration. So WH 3 can sometimes add up to 3 (possibly 2?) points.
4) Survivability has nothing to do with the penetration value, but affects post-penetration survival of the vehicle once perforated. It is therefore irrelevant to your test.
5) There is code in there for fuse failures for HEAT. HEAT pen will therefore be more variable than solid shot. Usually book value or lower - there is a very small chance of some overpen.
100 shots is not a very high statistical sample (your decrease of warhead size should show a slight overal reduction in pen, but at 100 sample points, this tiny factor can be wiped out by the HEAT pen variability).
Therefore - best to average over at least 100
succesful hits. So - throw away any misses, track hits and other non penetrating hits till you have 100 succesful strikes on target.
Cheers
Andy