Been wondering about this for awhile:
We'll use BB's since this is the Battleships Board.
When you see statistics of the firing accuracy of Battleships (or cruisers, anything that fires multi-gun salvos), you typically see "# of rounds fired vs. # of hits.
So if say, a US BB is firing 9 gun salvos, and gets a hit on the third salvo, most folks count that as one hit in 27 shots.
My question is, is that really the correct way to score the hits? Reason why....since all 9 barrels are not actually aimed at the exact same spot...they are fired in a spread, and even staggered a bit.....shouldn't a BB salvo be considered more like a shotgun round, and one 9 gun full salvo counts as ONE shot? And therefore, 3 salvos with one hit would be 3 firing attempts, with 1 hit in 3, and not 1 hit in 27 attempts?
Yeah, there were 9 shells in each "turn", but unless you are individually aiming and firing each barrel, it doesn't seem right to me that you count one salvo, fired at the same solution but with the barrels all aimed slightly differently, as 9 separate shots.
What say the experts? Am I off here?
We'll use BB's since this is the Battleships Board.
When you see statistics of the firing accuracy of Battleships (or cruisers, anything that fires multi-gun salvos), you typically see "# of rounds fired vs. # of hits.
So if say, a US BB is firing 9 gun salvos, and gets a hit on the third salvo, most folks count that as one hit in 27 shots.
My question is, is that really the correct way to score the hits? Reason why....since all 9 barrels are not actually aimed at the exact same spot...they are fired in a spread, and even staggered a bit.....shouldn't a BB salvo be considered more like a shotgun round, and one 9 gun full salvo counts as ONE shot? And therefore, 3 salvos with one hit would be 3 firing attempts, with 1 hit in 3, and not 1 hit in 27 attempts?
Yeah, there were 9 shells in each "turn", but unless you are individually aiming and firing each barrel, it doesn't seem right to me that you count one salvo, fired at the same solution but with the barrels all aimed slightly differently, as 9 separate shots.
What say the experts? Am I off here?
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