[Baron Munchausen]

General Hawkwing:

A much more interesting question about missiles in general (all types) is how they are affected by point-defense weapons. A flat calculation of "damage per kt" or "point of research per damage per kt" is just not going to be useful with missiles due to their vulnerability to interception. Against an opponent with no PDC they could be devastating, but against an opponent with maxed-out PDC (and lots of them mounted in their ships) they could be totally useless. I'm not even sure what sort of 'formula' you can use to calculate their usefulness thanks to this complicating factor. I've just got a general 'rule of thumb' that 1 PDC seems to counter 2 missile components and try to have that ratio when attacking someone who has missiles. I'm very interested to hear what our "researchers" might come up with, though.