posted March 15, 2001 22:04    

Corprate Flagship:
Offensive Odds: 1.2:1
Defensive Odds: 1.2:1

Now my question is what way are you supposed to read that. 1.2 of my figs to kill 1 of theirs, or 1 of theres to kill 1.2 of mine, or am I totally off?

Secondly and hopefully lastly. How would use use the odd to figure out how many figs are needed to carture/destory a ship. Say you were in a Corprate Flagship and the other person was in a Starmaster (Offensive Odds: 1.4:1 Defensive Odds: 1.4:1). Not including shields, figure neither have shields, how many would I need to capture the ship? destroy the ship? and if the stakes were reversed? To get to the point, i want the formualy, but if you could figure the example for me to show me that'd be great too.

posted March 17, 2001 12:31    

1.2:1 means 1.2 of your figs to kill one of thiers. or 1.2 figs of theirs (at 1:1 offensive) to kill 1 of yours.

This formula is good for capturing :

(defensive odds * enemie figs)
------------------------------
offensive odds

So if you attack a ship with 1.4:1 odds and he got 5k figs

1.4 * 5000
---------- = 5833 figs
1.2

If the player has shields on his ship you have to take them into account.
If you have a combat scanner

1.4 * (5000 + ( shield % * max shields))
----------------------------------------
1.2
!! NOTE !! First time I got a parantesis wrong in the formula.. The formula is now corrected.. !! NOTE !!

so if he got 50% shields on a ship that takes 2000.

1.4 * ( 5000) + ( 0.50 * 2000))
----------------------------- = 7000 figs
1.2

In HVS MBBS an unmanned ship got a 60% penalty so the same ship unmanned would only cost you 4200 figs to capture. I dunno if this with the unmanned ship works in TWGS version of TW or not.
This is not an exact science since you have a random factur in combat but most of the times if you use this formula you will capture the ship and it will still have some figs left on it but will be owned by you.