[eia] oops, my last email may be premature

["J.J. Young" <jjy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> A roll of "5", +1 for British fleets, equals a "6", or 25% of the
remaining
> Coalition ships inflicted as casualties on the Spanish stack.  At most,
this
> stack can have 77 (59 Spanish +18 free state) ships, so the maximum
> casualties they could inflict is 77 X .25 = 19 ships.  97 - 19 = no lower
> than 78 Coalition ships left, which at 25% will inflict 20 casualties,
> winning the battle even in a worst-case senario.

No, wait, the Spanish total could be 78.  Sorry.

-JJY


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