Main > Q&A

A few questions

<< < (7/12) > >>

Schwerbelastung:

--- Quote from: Spud Nick on April 08, 2014, 01:24:06 am ---Would a buffed burst hwacha finish of a galleon or goldfish in one clip?

--- End quote ---

In theory, for the Goldfish, maybe. In theory. In practice for both, no. My reasoning, feel free to correct me:

Hwacha damage per rocket, direct/aoe: 25 explosive, 45 shatter
Rounds per clip: 20
Damage modifiers to unarmored hull: 1,4 from explosive, 0,1 from shatter


Buffed burst hwacha:
Damage to unarmored hull per rocket on a direct hit: (25*1,4 + 45*0,1)*1,2 = 47,4
Rounds per clip: (20*1,2) = 24
Total theoretical damage to unarmored hull per clip: (24 * 47,4) = 1137,6

Goldfish hull health: 1100
Galleon hull health: 1400



In the above scenario, all of the rockets hit the unarmored hull or a broken component when the hull armor is down. Even one rocket that hits a non-broken component (gun, engine, balloon) or misses the ship will cause the Goldfish to live.

To clarify: Each buffed rocket does (25*1,4*1,2 = 42) direct damage to the hull, but only (45*0,1*1,2 = 5,4) damage from the AoE shatter component, meaning that even one rocket that only counts as AoE when damaging the hull will put you below 1100 total damage.

I hope there's no mistakes in this, I just woke up. As I said, feel free to correct me. I'm using a 3rd party spreadsheet for the initial values.

Spud Nick:
When is it better to use moonshine over kerosene? Or does it just come down to player preference.

Omniraptor:
Moonshine. All the time. I'm a badass sky pirate not some wussy by-the-book military pilot.

However among the wussy organized pilots the consensus is- moonshine for pyra and galleon and sometimes squid, and kerosene for everything else.

@schwerbs

If one or two rockets miss, you can always use another gun and/or ram them. A ship that took a hwacha volley won't be going anywhere or doing anything for a while.

N-Sunderland:
The main thing to consider is how much attention you can expect the engines to get while you're burning. On the Pyra or the Galleon it's easy for one or two engis to handle the engines and repair them all quickly, so moonshine works best. On other ships where the engines are spread all over the place (like the Squid or Goldfish), it's harder to keep constant watch over them, so kerosene is better.

Schwerbelastung:

--- Quote from: Omniraptor on April 11, 2014, 02:17:22 pm ---@schwerbs

If one or two rockets miss, you can always use another gun and/or ram them. A ship that took a hwacha volley won't be going anywhere or doing anything for a while.

--- End quote ---

Correct. In virtually all cases, there will be something else damaging the permahull than the buffed hwacha. Also, in virtually all cases, not all hwacha rockets will be direct hits. However, the question was whether a buffed burst hwacha can kill a goldfish or a galleon alone, and the answer is yes, but only if every single shot hits the hull component directly. :)

(Also, usually the permahull has taken at least a little damage after penetration before the first hwacha rockets hit it, but including this would probably make the answer even more confusing. :))

On the Kerosene vs Moonshine issue, I would personally use moonshine with experienced engineers and on ramming builds. Kerosene is a safer choice most of the time.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page

[*] Previous page