Re: [eia] oops, my last email may be premature

[Joel Uckelman <uckelman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thus spake "J.J. Young":
> > 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

Also, our total is 98, not 97. (I have 17 ships, not 16.)

-- 
J.


_______________________________________________
eia mailing list
eia@xxxxxxxxx
http://lists.ellipsis.cx/mailman/listinfo/eia