Author Topic: Dave's Galaxy  (Read 540792 times)

Vellos

  • Honourable King
  • *****
  • Posts: 3736
  • Stodgy Old Man in Training
    • View Profile
Re: Dave's Galaxy
« Reply #735: September 14, 2011, 10:54:17 PM »
Fleet: Fleet #23648, 98 cruisers (23648) Battle! -- Our Ships Lost:
               cruisers -- 3
Fleet: Fleet #25062, 10 cruisers (25062) Battle! -- Their Ships Lost:
               cruisers -- 7
Fleet: Fleet #23648, 95 cruisers (23648) Battle! -- Our Ships Lost:
               cruisers -- 10
Fleet: Fleet #20677, 60 cruisers (20677) Battle! -- Their Ships Lost:
               cruisers -- 44

I wish I could see what the other person lost.

You can. See above.

That was two battles: the first two sections were the casualties on each side of one fight. Kai lost 3, Oldry lost 7. The second 2 sections were each side of a second fight, wherein Kai lost 10, and Oldry lost 44.

Numerical advantage apparently reaps huge benefits when both fleets are large.

It occurs to me that, if you are outnumbered by the enemy by any meaningful amount, you might prosper by using smaller fleets. Oldry's small fleet did leaps and bounds better than his big fleet did. If he had send 7 fleets of 10 instead of 1 of 10 and 1 of 60, he could have inflicted 21 casualties, and lost 49. As it is, he inflicted 13, and suffered 51.

So... if you are outnumbered, you might optimize by swarming smallish fleets? I guess coming out at, like, 49% of the enemy's fleet size would be optimal, as it would activate the "small fleet" mechanics that help you, but not be quite so massively overwhelmed.
"A neutral humanism is either a pedantic artifice or a prologue to the inhuman." - George Steiner