Kickass. Using this, I can know when to run and when to fight instead of finding out the hard way.

The only real difference betewen attack and defense now is that the attacker wins in a draw/mutual destruction if the last ship standing on each side had the same max HP (the winner's last ship in that case would be resurrected with 1 HP).

you took my soul! cruse you!

Is this tool still accurate when compared to the combat rules in version 1.3?

Haven't had a chance to look at updating it, sorry.



It's all covered in the stickied thread in the Beta Reports forum.

This simulator doesn't take into account ship movement points. In the game movement points are extra attacks. I have destroyed many large fleets with small "weaker" ships that have huge movement point advantages. A 1 point laser does 1 point of damage in an attack if the ship has 1 movement point. If the same ship has 18 movement points the damage is acumulated so the end result is 18. At least thats the way the combat appears to happen on my computer when my tiny fighter with a 1 point laser destroys 9 of 11 pirate dreadnoughts in a single fleet combat.

Is that DA thing? I have DL and I get an attack for each move my ship has. Maybe Were talking apples and oranges? When my ship runs out of moves I can't attack anymore that turn.

Oh, you mean outside of combat.
I think the sim is just worrying about what happens inside of combat, when you move your ships to attack them. But only one round.

i am having some problems with this.

in the first campaign mission of DA there is a dread lord defender with 0/0/177 attack , 27/0/0 defense, and 12hp. I made a fleet of three 1hp ships with 0/0/11 attack. according to the combat simulator I should win like 92% of the time. But in reality I never win. In fact I only do like 0-3 damage to the defender.

Maybe the dread lords have a 100% defense modifier? Even if I change double the ship to 54/0/0 i still win like 82% in theory but 0% in reality.

It makes sense that this fleet should work given the wikia formula his defense should be 0-5 (int(sqrt(27)=5) my attack should be 1-11 but in the actual game i almost always do 0 points of damage and only occasionally do 1 or 2.

What am i overlooking here?

ahhh could i get a link to a thread or page that explains how combat works in the expansions?