Aurora 4x
New Players => The Academy => Topic started by: vorpal+5 on January 05, 2018, 12:32:46 PM
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Hi,
I'm not entirely sure why my fighters, equipped with a 2 twin gauss turrets get a tracking speed modifier of 13% against incoming missiles, whereas frigates, equipped with the same exact weapons (but more) get 51%. Is it coming from crew training? They both have a fire control of the same quality, TS wise.
EDIT: rereading my post, I see that my fighters don't have turret, only gauss canons with a TS of 10.000 compared to the frigates turrets, at 12.000. So rephrasing the question, are the 2000 km/s difference really accounting for the huge difference in hit probability?
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*Blohm+Voss 'Schwalbe' class Fighter 240 tons 9 Crew 57 BP TCS 4.8 TH 36 EM 0
10000 km/s Armour 2-3 Shields 0-0 Sensors 1/1/0/0 Damage Control 1 PPV 1
Annual Failure Rate: 0% IFR: 0% Maintenance Capacity 0 MSP
Spare Berths 2
[ENG] Northrop Grumman 24 EP Ion Thruster (2) Power 24 Fuel Use 392.02% Armour 0 Exp 20%
Fuel Capacity 10 000 Litres Range 1.9 billion km (2 days at full power)
[GAU] Westerling Dynamics Gauss Cannon 80 mm (2x2) Range 20 000km TS: 10000 km/s Power 0-0 RM 2 ROF 5 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
{FCB} Colville FTR Beam Control Sz .7 24-12000 (1) Max Range: 48 000 km TS: 12000 km/s 79 58 38 17 0 0 0 0 0 0
This design is classed as a military vessel for maintenance purposes
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Folgore class Kinetic Frigate 3000 tons 64 Crew 461.4 BP TCS 60 TH 144 EM 0
3200 km/s Armour 7-18 Shields 0-0 Sensors 1/1/0/0 Damage Control 1 PPV 21.76
Annual Failure Rate: 91% IFR: 1.3% Maintenance Capacity 48 MSP
Spare Berths 1
[ENG] Lawson Marine 12 EP Ion Drive (optimized) (16) Power 12 Fuel Use 69.3% Armour 0 Exp 10%
Fuel Capacity 150 000 Litres Range 13.0 billion km (46 days at full power)
[GAU] Twin Westerling Dynamics Gauss 80 mm (16x4) Range 20 000km TS: 15000 km/s Power 0-0 RM 2 ROF 5 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
[FCB] Walsh Engineering Navy Beam Control Sz2 24-12000 (1) Max Range: 48 000 km TS: 12000 km/s 79 58 38 17 0 0 0 0 0 0
This design is classed as a military vessel for maintenance purposes
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8th July 2074 17:26:26,Confederary,HIP 86961,FTR *Schwalbe 052 - {FCB} Colville FTR Beam Control Sz .7 24-12000 targeting Estonia Anti-ship Missile at 10 000 km: Base Chance to Hit: 96% (Base To Hit: 79% Modified by Crew Grade: 80% Modified by Fighter Combat Bonus: 96%)
8th July 2074 17:26:26,Confederary,HIP 86961,[GAU] Westerling Dynamics Gauss Cannon 80 mm (Modified by Tracking Speed: 15%) missed.
8th July 2074 17:26:26,Confederary,HIP 86961,[GAU] Westerling Dynamics Gauss Cannon 80 mm (Modified by Tracking Speed: 15%) hit the target and destroyed an enemy missile
8th July 2074 17:26:26,Confederary,HIP 86961,2 weapons fired. 1 missiles destroyed
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8th July 2074 17:27:06,Confederary,HIP 86961,[GAU] Twin Westerling Dynamics Gauss 80 mm (Modified by Tracking Speed: 51%) missed.
8th July 2074 17:27:06,Confederary,HIP 86961,[GAU] Twin Westerling Dynamics Gauss 80 mm (Modified by Tracking Speed: 51%) hit the target and destroyed an enemy missile
8th July 2074 17:27:06,Confederary,HIP 86961,[GAU] Twin Westerling Dynamics Gauss 80 mm (Modified by Tracking Speed: 51%) missed.
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How fast were the fighters flying? Unturreted weapons have a tracking speed of max(racial_targeting, current_speed). If the fighters were part of a task group flying at <3000 km/s then their tracking would be reduced all the way down to the racial base 3000 km/s.
0.96 modified base * 3000_tracking / ~19000_missile = ~15% hit chance.
One work around is to have the fighters in a separate squadron following their protectee at full speed, but be warned that that burns fuel very fast.
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I thought about that, and you hit the post! They were escorting the TG moving slowly at a speed of 2000 km/S (CVE are not fast in the Confederacy).
Learn a thing everyday! I can't even relieve from command the CVE commander, she died with her ship... :D