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[IronyOwl]

@IronyOwl: Inter-team communication is restricted to team leaders so the report has to go to Milno.

Oh, weird. Does that work both ways or just for members talking to leaders?

[GreatWyrmGold]

It's frankly kinda amazing how bad those rolls were. I mean, in order for you to have one of the shots even miss the target you have to roll lower then 3. For it to even have a chance of hitting you, you need a 1. And for it to actually hit you, another 1 or 2. You have to roll 1-1 or 1-2 otherwise they don't hurt you. And thats like what? A 6% chance at worst? More like 5%?  1/20?  And it happened 3 times! Thats a 1/8000 Chance!

Well, the chance is (1/6)(1/3)=(1/18)=(5.556%), so it's slightly closer to 6% than 5%. Happening three times would be 0.01715%, a bit over one in six thousand (1/5832). So not as bad as you're claiming. Especially since there was more than one artillery piece firing per turn. I think there were...what, three or four? Let's say three, firing twice each. That's six shots. The chance of at least three team hits would be P(3)+P(4)+P(5)+P(6), or more easily 1-[P(0)+P(1)+P(2)]=1-[(5831/5832)^6+6(5832/5832)^5(1/5832)+15(5831/([5832^4])(1/5832)^2]=1-([0.999]+[0.001]+[0])=Okay, where did I screw up the calculations?

[Parisbre56]

http://www.wolframalpha.com/
is great for messing with large numbers or doing other time-consuming-math-you-could-get-wrong like messing with matrices.

[smurfingtonthethird]

Annnd I'm dead, without even getting a single shot off.

That was a good run, with the total disrespect for my internal organs and the other stuff which I never did.

I'm also assuming I'm good and properly permadead. G'night folks!

[Xantalos]

We'll get confirmation, I suppose.

[syvarris]

Annnd I'm dead, without even getting a single shot off.

That was a good run, with the total disrespect for my internal organs and the other stuff which I never did.

I'm also assuming I'm good and properly permadead. G'night folks!

Eh, you're Lerman, I assume?  You rolled two for endurance, so not quite permadead.  Just pasted.

So strictly speaking, you're technically better off like this.  You get a nice robobody, and all your (armory-bought) equipment is refunded at no charge.

[smurfingtonthethird]

But now I can't loot the big ships for armor components. Either way, the artillery crew is going to die.

[Xantalos]

But now I can't loot the big ships for armor components. Either way, the artillery crew is going to die.

Xan'll make sure of that. 

[Sean Mirrsen]

There is no artillery crew. There's just artillery, a bundle of friendly-fire-happy targeting computers, and Simus acting as a spotter.

[smurfingtonthethird]

So I blow up the computers and feed Simus to Xan. Problem solved!

[Xantalos]

I can't eat her! She's synthflesh and stuff.

Still, I'm going to nuke those damn computers

[smurfingtonthethird]

Rats! I'll have to settle for shooting her, or shooting her into spaaaaaace.

[Empiricist]

The person who can become intangible at will and armed with a grenade launcher? That may be inadvisable...

[Unholy_Pariah]

Go-Go Gadget, Lynch Mob!

Ill find some rope-like cabling.

[smurfingtonthethird]

Wait, if she phases, wouldn't her clothes fall off?

Failing that, wouldn't she past through the planet?