Ok, here it goes:<br><br>Friendly fleet 5 br4
ships,<br>Enemy fleet 4 br4 ships.<br><br>The enemy gets
destroyed (2 enemy ships fall to DEST (40), the other 2
fall to 2DV (40+8)). <br><br>Let's see what happens to
us:<br><br>Our BP = 5 * 4^2 = 80<br>Enemy BP = 4 * 4^2 = 64,
DEST = 32, initial 2DV=32 (both are half the
BP)<br><br>Now our first ship enters battle. BP1 = 4^2 which is
smaller than DEST so it gets destroyed. DEST is reduced
by BP1, so it is 16<br><br>Our second ship enters
battle. BP2 = 4^2 and this ship gets destroyed as well.
DEST = 0.<br><br>Ship 3,4 and 5 all have a BP larger
than the remaining DEST, so they stay alive so far.
(They don't fall to DEST).<br><br>Time to finalize the
battle. The remaining DEST is added to the 2DV, which
thus stays at 32.<br>Our 3 ships have a combined BP of
3*4^2 is 48. Thus our ships lose 32/48 of their
strength, leaving them at (1-32/48)*4 = 1.3333
BR.<br><br>Thus at the end of the battle, you have 3 ships with
1.3333 BR.<br><br>The ships enter battle in random
order, so you don't know which will fall to DEST.
<br>There are two ship types that behave differently when
it comes to DEST. This only makes a difference in
defensive fight (thus the chance to survive the fight).
There is no difference in offensive respect (thus the
chance to destroy the enemy)<br><br>Mines: Don't enter
battle in the first phase, and thus don't fall to DEST.
They will only die if the remaining fleet falls to
2DV.<br><br>Carriers: Do enter the battle at the DEST phase, but won't
get destroyed when they fall. First their BR drops by
a game-set value (delta). Then their new BP is
calculated. DEST is reduced by BPnew and the carrier joins
the fleet of surviving ships. That means that BPnew
also helps in the second part of the battle with 2DV.
The downside is that DEST is reduced less than with
other ships, so more ships might fall to DEST than if
you don't use carriers. <br>Total fighting power is
thus 2 * (BR-delta)^2. And if the fleet survives,
carriers are certain to be among the surviving ships. And
since your offensive power may be weaker than your
defensive power, both parties might survive the
battle!<br><br>Too low BR will make a carrier weaker than attackers!