New naval combat mechanics...

[Jorgen_CAB]

So. Every point below the limit gives a x% to hit chance?
Remember there is a minimum of 5% chance to hit in the defines. So it can´t go lower than that.

thats is likely the main advantage of BC´s as they have 28 surface visibility vs 30 of BB´s. (no turret spam)

To be honest I don't know exactly how it work, the defines just say that the weapon profile is modified with the ship profile. The weapon profile being...

Light = 30
Heavy = 50
Torpedoes = 180

It could potentially be calculated in a different way... but I presume this is the way they did it.

 

[Denkt]

Hit chance is based on speed, the faster a ship move the harder it is to hit. Likely hp or something also determines how big the ship is and thus how easy it is to hit. Convoys are easy to hit based on the defines but I could not find anything about how size work for other ships.

 

[Jorgen_CAB]

Hit chance is based on speed, the faster a ship move the harder it is to hit. Likely hp or something also determines how big the ship is and thus how easy it is to hit. Convoys are easy to hit based on the defines but I could not find anything about how size work for other ships.

The defines are not clear on that point... they still refer to evasion but evasion do not exist in the game anymore so those lines in the defines are most likely not in use anymore.

Size are obviously determined by the ships visibility value.

 

[jju_57]

Speed is still used in the calculation. But remember many factors like ocean terrain, weather, etc. impact speed. A 30 knot ship might be down to under 20 knots due to various modifiers.

 

[sterrius]

At least to escape speed is not that important.

Here are a example.

12.8 knot speed = 9.6% difference.
So 1 knot = 0,75% Escape bar bonus increase every 1 hours.

The base for escape for every 10% is +0,32 % of the bar filled every hour.

So at best case scenario (100%) a ship needs 31 Hours to escape combat.
Usually they take longer. Around 40-60 hours as its very rare to go above 50-60% no matter how fast your ship is.


So all that matters is to know how speed afect evasion/defense.

Also i made a "RACE" using japan pride of the fleet (19knots) vs a BB (32 knots)
They both started at korea and went to hawaii.

Starting 4:00 9/2/1936

32 knot finished 15:00 14/2/1936 (5 days and 1 hour) .
19 knot finished 14:00 18/2/1936 (8 days).


So unless you're Ultra far away from the province you are going to use your Search & Destroy. Speed is not a issue. (UK, US and Japan usually always have islands and bases close to the action reducing this to 2-3 days of travel).

That gives 4 days to fill the search bar before the enemy fleet jump to other region. (if he is using 2 regions, something i recommend for raiders to avoid you staying more than a week in the same place).

Patrols, Escorts and raiders do need the speed to find the enemy or avoid them. So for them i recommend staying above 30 Knots at minimum.