Kill/Suppress more strength than you are attacking with?

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CrimsonStorm
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Kill/Suppress more strength than you are attacking with?

Post by CrimsonStorm »

Can someone explain how it is possible for a 13 strength 88 to kill 9 and suppress 5 of an enemy fort?

I have a screenshot but haven't uploaded it anywhere but the stats are:

Unsuppressed Strength 13
Miss: 22%, Suppress: 10%, Kill 68%
9 Killed 5 Suppressed

This is the prediction obviously not the fact. The fact is often stranger still.

For example

Dice Rolls: 70 81 45 73 36 41 88 94 90 27 85 42 26
11 killed 4 suppressed
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Post by Kerensky »

Each shot is rolled against kill and suppress chances, so it's possible for a single shot to achieve both.
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Post by CrimsonStorm »

So working with the above figures

1-22 = miss
23 - 32 = suppress
33-100 = kill

Now if something can give a kill AND a suppress I would assume its at the same percentage at the top of the kill scale.

So with 10 % suppress can we assume the top 10% of the 68% is K&S, therefore we are left with:

1-22 = miss
23 - 32 = suppress
33-93 = kill
94-100 = kill and suppress

But this would mean from the rolls listed 11 kills and 3 suppressions so obviously incorrect.

The alternative would be the suppress % at the top of the kill % giving:

1-22 = miss
23 - 32 = suppress
33-90 = kill
91-100 = kill and suppress

Unfortunately this also doesn't work with the rolls listed.

Does anyone know the actual calculation?
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Post by Kerensky »

You assumed incorrectly. :)

Rolling 100 does not mean kill and suppress.

Think of it as two sets of dice being rolled.
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