Warfare & Tactics

Oh noes, your poor Drake.

Considering how many Drakes died, I find it hard to believe there was only one volley fired.

If you feel an exploit was used file a petition.

It's pretty clear to me there were two volleys launched approximately 10 seconds apart, 7 hit on the first volley and 6 hit on the second and then a final volley about 15 seconds after that.

You were the victim of a well coordinated attack, not an exploit.

A second (or more accurately a tick) is all that is required for them to not blow each other up.

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Bombs have a 99.5% resist against their own damage type. All the bombs were EM. So yes, this is possible.

Ok a tiny bit of math.

A bomb goes 2500 meter/second and flies 12 seconds.

That means in 12 seconds it will travel 30km and then will explode.
So it takes 6 seconds to travel 15km.
15km is the explosion radius of the bomb.

So for one bomb to not hit the second bomb it needs a head start of at least 6 seconds, if it is more the second bomb will not be damaged by the first bomb because it will still be flying outside the explosion radius.

6 seconds is a lot less then the 10 seconds you say. And over like an 18 second period you can get a lot of bombs in that will not kill eachother.

Second: did all the bombers come from the same side? Because a good bombrun will come from multiple side. That way you can create a "zone of death".

A deathzone is a zone that is hit by bombs that come from different directions, but still far enough apart to not hit eachother. Remember the 15km explosions radius? If two bombs go off 20 km from eachother they won't get hit by themselves, but they do "double" hit a rather small 10km zone. So if two waves comes from two directions, you can be hit by two full waves at the exactly same time without the two waves taking eachother out.

Most people's calculations don't take into account that you could potentially have a single target get hit by far more than 8 bombs simultaneously. These bombs can do damage to a single target without even doing damage to each other. Everyone assumes all bombs aim directly for the same spot, which, for most intents and purposes is true, but not required.

Case in point: 7 bombs detonate in the exact same spot 10km starboard. You take 7 bombs damage.
Another 7 bombs detonate off your port side at 10km at the exact same time. You just took 14 bombs damage. The bombs on the port side weren't even close enough to damage the bombs on the starboard side. Maths!!!!


Now that a 'scout' needs to be used to provide warpins, you could potentially have several squads of 7 or so bombers each warp to the scout at different ranges (10km apart), then have the whole lot of them align to a celestial (CELESTIAL, NOT a target ship. You don't want all bomb waves to converge, you want them parallel).

I sometimes thing folks forget that when a bomb gets exploded by bombs - it explodes.