[Zombies/Spaceships] Missile swarm question answered in the oddest place

[panton41]

One of my big questions in GURPS Spaceships is how to deal with shooting down a barrage of missiles. When there's a hundred missile bearing down on your ship and your CIWS has gone into overtime shooting them down you eventually need to know how many out of that swarm survived. Until recently I used a kludge of comparing attack and defense success percentages but Zombies offers a better option.

Page 113 has a table listing "Fraction that Resist/Succumb." Change that to "Fraction that get through/shot down" and you have a nice "quick-and-dirty" table for seeing how many missiles are shot down out of a huge swarm. In fact the whole "dealing with hordes" section could be useful, too.

[Crakkerjakk]

Originally Posted by ciaran_skye

One of my big questions in GURPS Spaceships is how to deal with shooting down a barrage of missiles. When there's a hundred missile bearing down on your ship and your CIWS has gone into overtime shooting them down you eventually need to know how many out of that swarm survived. Until recently I used a kludge of comparing attack and defense success percentages but Zombies offers a better option.

Page 113 has a table listing "Fraction that Resist/Succumb." Change that to "Fraction that get through/shot down" and you have a nice "quick-and-dirty" table for seeing how many missiles are shot down out of a huge swarm. In fact the whole "dealing with hordes" section could be useful, too.

Yeah, large numbers of attackers vs large numbers of defending attacks is just down to statistics. I think Sir Pudding has been suggesting that as a solution for a while.