Let's say you have a  "broadside" of 100 missiles, and you have an
expectation of a 10% hit rate with normal missiles.

If the fancy missiles raise that to a 20% hit rate, you've (sort of)
added another ship to your side.

So long as the missiles are cheaper than some percentage of another
ship (and it's associated operating costs), you're ahead.

The Fancy Missiles also make a big difference in the effectiveness of
smaller ships. I'd suspect the proportional difference is even more
pronounced there.

On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 3:56 PM, Greg Nokes <xxxxxx@nokes.name> wrote:
> Honestly, I don’t really see the value in fancy missiles. The vast majority
> of them will be killed in transit anyways, so the more that you can toss at
> an enemy the better. The cheaper they are the better. I see missiles as a
> wave trying to overwhelm defenses.
>
> The only real advantage is any stand off, i.e. bomb pumped lasers.
> Personally, I’d think about seeding a few of them into a wave of KK
> missiles. The EMP’s will confused Point Defense sensors, and you might get a
> few hits with them ;-)
>
>
>
>
> On Mar 15, 2016, at 12:04 PM, Jeffrey Schwartz <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Take with a very large bag of salt...
>
> http://www.pravdareport.com/science/tech/19-11-2014/129079-atomic_bullets-0/
>
> The decay heat makes sense, but the half life issue isn't even mentioned.
>
> 100 to 700kg of TNT per bullet is quite a bit, but not total Armageddon.
>
> Presuming this kind of thing is possible with Traveller tech levels
> though, I think it would be a nice half-way on the "kinetic vs nuclear
> missile" discussion in another thread.
> Load up a MetalStorm style mechanism with these, put the whole thing
> in a nuclear dampner box, and when it closes on the armored target,
> begin firing a steady stream of Cf bullets. As they hit the target
> ship, they'll carve a path inward for the shipkiller warhead still in
> the missile.
> Say a 10x10 array of barrels, with 10 bullets per barrel. That'd give
> around 0.5 kilotons of "carving" potential. Figure maybe 25% actually
> hit usefully, and that's still 0.1kt of carving.
>
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 2:46 PM, Mark Urbin <xxxxxx@urbin.net> wrote:
>
> I can still think of several PCs in games I've run who would want one.   One
> of my favorite lines from the Ringworld books comes to mind for the more
> sane (for various ratings of sane) PCs that would carry a 25mm handgun with
> a Cf round.  This isn't an exact quote, but close "The problem with having a
> anti-matter missile, is that the crew looked for the first excuse to get rid
> of it."
>
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 8:35 PM, George Herbert <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> The current consensus is that tiny Cf micronukes will be more like 20-25mm
> projectiles but might well work.  The ones that small would be horribly
> dangerously radioactive to have around and would decay rapidly barring
> convenient damper tech like Traveller supposes...
>
> George William Herbert
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