Neutron Bomb

[geoschmo]

Laf. Methinks SJ misread your question, no?

Anyway, according to the components.txt file the Neutron Bomb I does 40 damage per shot. According to the settings.txt file it takes 10 damage to kill 1 unit (1 Million) of population, so each bomb kills 4 million per shot. (Neutron bomb is treated as a direct fire weapon)

Assuming 5 combat turns to get in range of the planet, and assuming every shot lands (Since the target is a planet, this will be very close to true) then you'l get 25 turns of actual firing on the planet. Neutron Bomb I has a reload rate of 2 so that's 12 shots per combat round. So each Bomb in your fleet should kill 48 million people per round of combat.

90 Neutron Bombs spread through your fleet, would wipe out a fully loaded medium sized planet in one combat round. That's assuming they have no defenses that would prevent your ships from staying close enough to land a shot every other turn.

That's a lot of neutron Bombs, but they only take 20Kt so you can get several on a ship. Also since they are direct fire weapons, so you can use weapon mounts on larger ships. Can be quite devastating on a larger ship with mounts since damage per shot goes up considerably.

Geo