Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Math-Hammer: Vendetta with Heavy Bolters vs. Vehicles (Corrected)

by SandWyrm


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I've got a question for you: Do you still have your weapon/vehicle simulator? I'd be interested to know the stat dump on a vendetta with Heavy Bolters against different kind of vehicles, and the differences in kill/disable percentages.


Thanks!

cKerensky

SandWyrm's Reply:

Sigh... you would make me modify the script for firing multiple weapon types at once. Fortunately it only took 6 lines of code. I be like... efficient and stuff. ;)

Edit 10/6/10:

Yeah, right, like it would be that easy. :)

I started doing some other tests with the modified script and noticed some wild luck fluctuations between runs that shouldn't have been there. So I re-factored the script properly and re-ran these tests. Ork Trukks got more destroyable, and Rhinos less so. Most other fluctuations were with a percentage point or two of the previous post. The results have been updated.

Here ya go...


Vendetta vs. Ork Trukk (Open-Topped AV10, 1 Weapon)

Lascannons Only:
    Stopped Target Movement: 96% (Stunned, Immobilized, Wrecked, or Exploded)
    Stopped Target Firing:   96% (Shaken, Stunned, Weapon Destroyed, Wrecked or Exploded)
    Destroyed Target:        74% (Wrecked or Exploded)
    Did Nothing to Target:   2%

Lascannons + Heavy Bolters:
    Stopped Target Movement: 98%
    Stopped Target Firing:   99%
    Destroyed Target:        85%
    Did Nothing to Target:   1%

Vendetta vs. Chimera Side/Rear (AV10, 2 Weapons)

Lascannons Only:
    Stopped Target Movement: 86%
    Stopped Target Firing:   96%
    Destroyed Target:        54%
    Did Nothing to Target:   2%

Lascannons + Heavy Bolters:
    Stopped Target Movement: 93%
    Stopped Target Firing:   99%
    Destroyed Target:        64%
    Did Nothing to Target:   1%

Vendetta vs. Rhino Front (AV11, 1 Weapon)

Lascannons Only:
    Stopped Target Movement: 80%
    Stopped Target Firing:   90%
    Destroyed Target:        45%
    Did Nothing to Target:   5%

Lascannons + Heavy Bolters:
    Stopped Target Movement: 85%
    Stopped Target Firing:   94%
    Destroyed Target:        47%
    Did Nothing to Target:   3%

(Heavy Bolters aren't going to do anything to AV12 or above, but I'll include the rest of the AV values for the sake of Vendetta-stat completeness.)

Vendetta vs. Chimera Front (AV12, 2 Weapons)

    Stopped Target Movement: 68%
    Stopped Target Firing:   81%
    Destroyed Target:        35%
    Did Nothing to Target:   12%

Vendetta vs. Leman Russ Side (AV13, 2 Weapons)

    Stopped Target Movement: 54%
    Stopped Target Firing:   68%
    Destroyed Target:        24%
    Did Nothing to Target:   24%
Vendetta vs. Leman Russ Front (AV14, 2 Weapons)

    Stopped Target Movement: 38%
    Stopped Target Firing:   51%
    Destroyed Target:        12%
    Did Nothing to Target:   42%
As you can see, Heavy Bolters add a couple of percentage points to your likelihood of killing Ork Trukks (Assuming your Chimeras' multi-lasers don't pop them first.). But it's more interesting that your chances of killing a Chimera on the side or rear goes up 24%. While your chances of killing a Rhino on the front or side go up a whopping 36%.

Yeah, the corrected numbers are more like what I originally expected. You get some decent benefit vs. AV10, but Rhinos only get a tiny bit easier to kill. Overall... meh. There's worse things to spend 10 points on, but I wouldn't make it a priority. AV10 is already pretty easy for your Chimeras to kill.

10 comments:

  1. First of all Sandwyrm, Well done sir! I never knew this program of yours existed pretty sweet.

    Just to clarify we are talking the heavy bolters being fired along with the 3 lascannons or comparing it to only 1 lascannon? if it's all 3 with the heavy bolters that's amazing, the results on the rhinos are inspiring to say the least for 10 points.

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  2. Sponsons on the airplanes are a fantastic deal, you could only skip them if you are super-short on points.

    I assume there is some rounding going on in the above numbers? Otherwise the 100% statistics have gotta be wrong.

    14% boost against a Rhino to stop it moving seems awfully high, but I suppose it's not an unreasonable number.

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  3. I believe there's a problem with your mathhammer code...

    "Lascannons Only:
    Stopped Target Movement: 96% (Stunned or Immobilized)
    Stopped Target Firing: 96% (Shaken, Stunned, or Weapon Destroyed)"

    How is adding in Weapon Destroyed the same percentage?

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  4. I'm not sure about your numbers. The probability of concurrent related events should approach 100% but never reach it.

    I ran the numbers by hand. And the odds of at least stunning an Ork Truck with 1 lascannon and 6 heavy bolter shots is aprox 80%

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  5. @Rionnay

    Heh, click on the math-hammer link in the tag cloud, I have more posts like this you can look at.

    As for the tests, the comparison is between all 3 lascannons firing vs. All 3 lascannons + 2 Heavy Bolters. For AV12+ the stats are only for the lascannons, as the heavy bolters won't do anything.

    @Abusepuppy

    Yeah, I round off to the nearest whole percentage because there are luck variations that would make an exact number be always wrong.

    @DaveG

    Heh, I trust the code. The totals you see are the average over 100,000 attack rolls. So the individual numbers don't have to conform to the possible results of one roll.

    I should also have listed that wrecked & exploded results are added to the "stopped movement" category. I'll correct it.

    @CaulynDarr

    I run the test over 100,000 simulated attack rolls. That's how many tests it takes to get the luck variations under 1% (where I then round it off). The luck variation for runs of 10-20 rolls can approach 20% or more.

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  6. Blogger SandWyrm said...

    Just as an example, here's an example of 5 runs of Vendetta vs. AV14 with only 20 attack rolls per run.

    Stopped Target Movement: 25%
    Stopped Target Firing: 55%
    Destroyed Target: 5%
    Did Nothing to Target: 45%

    Stopped Target Movement: 40%
    Stopped Target Firing: 50%
    Destroyed Target: 15%
    Did Nothing to Target: 45%

    Stopped Target Movement: 20%
    Stopped Target Firing: 35%
    Destroyed Target: 15%
    Did Nothing to Target: 65%

    Stopped Target Movement: 65%
    Stopped Target Firing: 65%
    Destroyed Target: 20%
    Did Nothing to Target: 25%

    Stopped Target Movement: 40%
    Stopped Target Firing: 55%
    Destroyed Target: 20%
    Did Nothing to Target: 35%

    There's a 40-point spread between some of those results!

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  7. How about vs tougher tanks, like the Land Raider, Monolith, or those of the paper-hulled Eldar variety?

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  8. Mea Culpa Guys, I did find a flaw with the code. It's been re-factored and tested, so these results should stand.

    @#2501

    The Monolith would be the same as the Russ AV14 test. There's no benefit to survivability after the 2nd weapon is added. And that one only adds 1%, on average, to a tank's survivability.

    The Land Raider also would be the same, though POTMS would keep at least one weapon firing as long as it isn't destroyed.

    As for the Eldar, I don't have their codex.

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  9. What is the advantage of simulating rolls? Wouldn't working back from each result to find the odds of rolling the required dice give the true odds without any variance?

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  10. @Simon

    Yes, but only when you're dealing with one shot. The results from multiple shots can interact. Such as when a second immobilized result becomes either a weapon destroyed or a wreck depending on other damage done in the same salvo. It's a problem particular to the vehicle rules

    When you have those kinds of interactions going on, I find that it's easier to simply simulate things. Whereas the normal wounding of a non-vehicle squad can be calculated more traditionally without any problem.

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