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I had some fun this weekend creating a bunch of functions in Python to simulate multiple attempts at our stuff shooting at flyers. This all assumes that the flyer will evade. The percentage is the chance for that unit to destroy a flyer by either stripping all hull points off or rolling an explodes result. I know in some cases like against a Night Scythe a weapon destroyed result is just as good I wanted to have this information against all flyers. Each percentage was calculated from 10,000 trials.

10 Warp Spiders, not Guided
vs AV 10 - 46.36%
vs AV 11 - 33.53%
vs AV 12 - 18.89%

10 Warp Spiders, Guided
vs AV 10 - 74.36%
vs AV 11 - 58.32%
vs AV 12 - 34.36%

Wave Serpent with TL-Scatter Lasers and Serpent Shield
vs AV 10 - 22.35%
vs AV 11 - 12.79%
vs AV 12 - 5.06%
vs Heldrake - 3.11%

3 War Walkers with two Scatter Lasers each, not Guided
vs AV 10 - 23.44%
vs AV 11 - 11.89%
vs AV 12 - 0.91%

3 War Walkers with two Bright Lances each, not Guided
vs AV 10 - 21.16%
vs AV 11 - 15.28%
vs AV 12 - 10.75%

3 War Walkers with two Scatter Lasers each, Guided
vs AV 10 - 53.85%
vs AV 11 - 28.73%
vs AV 12 - 4.54%

3 War Walkers with two Bright Lances each, Guided
vs AV 10 - 36.44%
vs AV 11 - 27.49%
vs AV 12 - 18.66%

War Walkers with Flak EML, no Guide
vs AV 10 - 36.25%
vs AV 11 - 22.76%
vs AV 12 - 10.7174%

War Walkers with Flak EML, with Guide
vs AV 10 - 54.29%
vs AV 11 - 35.20%
vs AV 12 - 35.14%

War Walkers with Scatter Laser and Flak EML, no Guide
vs AV 10 - 21.81%
vs AV 11 - 12.94%
vs AV 12 - 5.38%

War Walkers with Scatter Laser and Bright Lance, no Guide
vs AV 10 - 7.55%
vs AV 11 - 4.33%
vs AV 12 - 1.46%

War Walkers with Scatter Laser and Flak EML, with Guide
vs AV 10 - 29.995%
vs AV 11 - 17.284%
vs AV 12 - 6.64%

War Walkers with Scatter Laser and Bright Lance, with Guide
vs AV 10 - 11.851%
vs AV 11 - 6.81%
vs AV 12 - 2.02%

Crimson Hunter with no Exarch, not Guided
vs AV 10 - 60.97%
vs AV 11 - 56.32%
vs AV 12 - 46.8%

Crimson Hunter with no Exarch, Guided
vs AV 10 - 79.29%
vs AV 11 - 73.36%
vs AV 12 - 63.6%

Crimson Hunter with an Exarch, not Guided
vs AV 10 - 74.69%
vs AV 11 - 70.37%
vs AV 12 - 60.94%

Crimson Hunter with an Exarch, Guided
vs AV 10 - 85.1%
vs AV 11 - 80.19%
vs AV 12 - 71.22%

Quad Gun manned by a BS 4 model
vs AV 10 - 29.68%
vs AV 11 - 17.64%
vs AV 12 - 8.79%

Quad Gun manned by a BS 5 model
vs AV 10 - 35.19%
vs AV 11 - 20.88%
vs AV 12 - 8.93%

Reaper Exarch w/ Fast Shot using an Icarus Lascannon, Guide
vs AV 10 - 40.94%
vs AV 11 - 33.58%
vs AV 12 - 25.90%
vs Heldrake - 17.64%

Reaper Exarch w/ Fast Shot using an Icarus Lascannon, with Guide
vs AV 10 - 46.70%
vs AV 11 - 38.43%
vs AV 12 - 29.79%
vs Heldrake - 20.46%

As you can see the Crimson Hunter is far and above any other entry in our codex for killing flyers. Running a distant second are Warp Spiders, guided or not, followed by War Walkers with Bright Lances.

If you see any problems or think of any suggestions for improvements, let me know.

EDIT: Updated the numbers for Crimson Hunters. I had a 2 where a 1 should have been when calculating pen results and it skewed the numbers by 3-7%. I added results for War Walkers with Scatter + EML, War Walkers with Scatter + Bright Lance and Icarus Lascannon manned by a Reaper Exarch with Fast Shot.

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I think I'm missing something.

10 Warp Spiders equals 20 str 6 shots. Unguided they got 18.89% chance against AV12.

3 War Walkers with SL's get 24 str 6 shots. Unguided they got .91% chance against AV12.

Where is the disconnect?

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Good question. Looking over my functions now.

EDIT: Monofilament weapons are +1 strength to vehicles.

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 djones520 wrote:
I think I'm missing something.

10 Warp Spiders equals 20 str 6 shots. Unguided they got 18.89% chance against AV12.

3 War Walkers with SL's get 24 str 6 shots. Unguided they got .91% chance against AV12.

Where is the disconnect?


Spiders are S7 against vehicles.
   
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Angelic wrote:
 djones520 wrote:
I think I'm missing something.

10 Warp Spiders equals 20 str 6 shots. Unguided they got 18.89% chance against AV12.

3 War Walkers with SL's get 24 str 6 shots. Unguided they got .91% chance against AV12.

Where is the disconnect?


Spiders are S7 against vehicles.


You are 100% correct. That is news to me, and makes me so happy to learn.

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Yeah, it's depressing but I feel like I have to take my own flyers to be safe from the damn things. That or learn to love Tau allies.

Multiple Serpents can work together, but they're just so much more effective against ground targets that it's hard to justify. Guided Spiders are probably the most cost-effective choice, and they do have decent ability to move around to shoot at rear armor, but they're hard to rely on vs Helldrakes for obvious reasons. And if you're playing a Mech list you might not want those T3 models running around all game.

This misses a few things, though. If you're psyker-heavy, Doom is an option, and it's not going to help the Hunter at all. If you're taking Dark Reapers anyway, the Exarch is an efficient AA option, though they suffer from the same Helldrake problem. I guess you could hide them in a Serpent, though this prevents you from Guiding them. Fire Dragons work similarly for a lot fewer points - 5+ S8 AP1 shots is going to have a pretty good chance of dropping a flyer if guided even if the squad isn't within 6".
   
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Crimson Hunter cannot be correct.

With exarch and guided vs AV12:
4* (5/6+1/6*5/6)*(1/3+2/3*1/3)*(2/3)*(1/3)=48%

Thats the chance of getting a destroyed result. You strip 1.94 HP on average. Have ~10% chance of stripping 3 HP. Therefore you are ~58% of killing a AV12 flier

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no reaper exarch with fast shot on a icarus lascannon ?

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 zephoid wrote:
Crimson Hunter cannot be correct.

With exarch and guided vs AV12:
4* (5/6+1/6*5/6)*(1/3+2/3*1/3)*(2/3)*(1/3)=48%

Thats the chance of getting a destroyed result. You strip 1.94 HP on average. Have ~10% chance of stripping 3 HP. Therefore you are ~58% of killing a AV12 flier


I'm not sure what you're doing there.

First, the exarch can't reroll failed pens if they glance. Second, don't its AP2 weapons only destroy an enemy flyer on half of the damage results rather than 2/3? Last, how are you getting a percentage out of that? You seem to be trying to compute an expected number of destroyed results. The actual chance to destroy will be lower.

Edit: Also you multiply by 1/3 at the end? Oh, I see. The 2/3 is the save and the 1/3 is the regular damage table result, but it should be 1/2.

Edit2: I'm getting about a 25% chance of stripping 3 hull points and a 50% chance of destroying it outright. Those aren't independent, though. 7% chance of stripping 3 hull points without destroying it outright, so 57% total. I have absolutely no idea how you got that close.

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You are correct about the glances, i forgot this isnt true reroll pens. Pens with AP2 destroy on 1/3. The 2/3 is the chance you get a pen through a 5+ cover save. This is the chance you get one destroyed vehicle result. I prefer this calculation method due to easy math on squadrons or calculation variance on getting the single destroyed result you need. The two calculations on chance to destroy a vehicle are normally similar until you hit ~65-70% chance to destroy. However, this is in no way a 77+% chance to destroy a AV12 flier with a crimson hunter so that shouldnt matter.

4* (5/6+1/6*5/6)*(1/3+1/2*1/3)*(2/3)*(1/3)=43% chance for a destroyed result. Thats even less than before.

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Oh, you're right about the table. Only a 6 on the table destroys something, so it's 1/3 for AP2.

So then it's 36.7% to Explode and 29% to strip 3 Hull Points (I had a mistake in hull points earlier). But only a 13% to strip 3 Hull Points without rolling an Explode. So 50% to destroy.

But yeah, something's wrong with the script being run.
   
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 zephoid wrote:
Crimson Hunter cannot be correct.

With exarch and guided vs AV12:
4* (5/6+1/6*5/6)*(1/3+2/3*1/3)*(2/3)*(1/3)=48%

Thats the chance of getting a destroyed result. You strip 1.94 HP on average. Have ~10% chance of stripping 3 HP. Therefore you are ~58% of killing a AV12 flier


I'll post the formula I used for this tomorrow. I came up with all of this when I was at work and I forgot email the script to myself.

 G00fySmiley wrote:
no reaper exarch with fast shot on a icarus lascannon ?


I'll add this tomorrow.

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What about War Walkers with a SL & EML with flakk?

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 zephoid wrote:
Crimson Hunter cannot be correct.

With exarch and guided vs AV12:
4* (5/6+1/6*5/6)*(1/3+2/3*1/3)*(2/3)*(1/3)=48%

Thats the chance of getting a destroyed result. You strip 1.94 HP on average. Have ~10% chance of stripping 3 HP. Therefore you are ~58% of killing a AV12 flier


That is not how you determine the chance to destroy. What you have there is the average number of explodes results.

The chance of getting at least one explodes result is:

1-(1-(35/36*1/2*2/3*1/3))^4 = 36.7%

Z=strip 1 HP in one shot=35/36*3/4*2/3=48.6%

1-((1-Z)^4+4*(1-Z)^3*Z+6*(1-Z)^2*Z^2)=chance to strip at least 3HP=29.2%

Then you have to calculate the chance to immobilize twice:

Y=immobilize in one shot=35/36*1/2*2/3*1/6=5.4%
1-((1-Y)^4+4*(1-Y)^3*Y)=chance to at least immobilize twice=1.63%

To find the final chance to destroy

(1-at least one explodes)*(1-at least 3 hp stripped)*(1-at least two immobilizes)
(1-.367)*(1-.292)*(1-.0163)=44.1% chance to destroy

   
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How did I not notice that War Walkers can take EMLs with Flakk?

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 Death By Monkeys wrote:
 warpspider89 wrote:
What about War Walkers with a SL & EML with flakk?

While he could potentially do WWs with SL & EML, the only model in the list that can take Flakk with an EML is a Dark Reaper Exarch.


Warwalkers can take flakk. Not cost effective, but they can take it.

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 Sasori wrote:
 Death By Monkeys wrote:
 warpspider89 wrote:
What about War Walkers with a SL & EML with flakk?

While he could potentially do WWs with SL & EML, the only model in the list that can take Flakk with an EML is a Dark Reaper Exarch.


Warwalkers can take flakk. Not cost effective, but they can take it.


They definitely are expensive but, provided that you only take one EML/model + SL, are almost acceptably priced for something that can threaten infantry, tanks, and planes while popping in and out of cover (ideally, cover that blocks LOS). It would be very accurate firepower

I'd be interested in the math on its effectiveness.

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The costs add up quickly, but from a purely effectiveness standpoint, you're much better off going with dual EMLs than EML/SL - because remember, you still have to shoot the SL with Snap Shots and have to hit with them to get TL for the EML. For purely AA duty, double EMLs is what you need. And while you lose some versatility by not having the SL for non-AA tasks, you still have the other EML fire modes. That said, it will be pricy!

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 Death By Monkeys wrote:
The costs add up quickly, but from a purely effectiveness standpoint, you're much better off going with dual EMLs than EML/SL - because remember, you still have to shoot the SL with Snap Shots and have to hit with them to get TL for the EML. For purely AA duty, double EMLs is what you need. And while you lose some versatility by not having the SL for non-AA tasks, you still have the other EML fire modes. That said, it will be pricy!


Extremely pricey for an 2hp AV10 open-topped model. I'll just take more Wave Serpents I think.

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The crimson hunter is an air superiority fighter if ever I saw one. Yes it is a glass cannon; but using reserve manipulators (autarchs, scriers gaze, comms relay, etc) you can aid in its survival. Furthermore - you can use its vector dancer to keep it at arms length from other fighters and keep it on the board edge to avoid vector strikes.

The Exarch upgrade is beastly. Other methods of AA work in a pinch - guided warithguard, wave serpents and their shields, etc. But the hunter is solely designed to rip open flyers and then tanks. Even swapping the lances out for star cannons still leaves him to be quite nasty. Especially the ability to reroll armour pen vs flyers.

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Sorry I didn't update today. I pretty much forgot to go to work to grab the script (I work only 4 days a week). Tomorrow I'm busy so I won't be able to update the list until Thursday. Hang tight until then folks.
   
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I updated the numbers for Crimson Hunter and added some new entries.

As far as calculating the chances for a Crimson Hunter to do anything I do the following:

Roll seperately for Pulse Laser and Bright Lance hits
Roll to see if the hits penned or glanced. If neither then reroll.
Roll to see if they evaded the glances or pens
Roll to see the result of any pens that go through. On any result of 6 or better it flags the run as destroyed
Total up the number of hull points docked from the flyer. If 3+ then it flags the run as destroyed.
Add 1 to the total destroyed counter if the flag is true.

When I say roll I use the rndint fuction in python to simulate a die roll then compare it to a target number. If it's greater than or equal to the target number then I count it as a success. The percentages I've given are the average number of destroyed results out of all runs. Now obviously I don't take in account flyer squadrons. If you guys want to see that sort of thing I'll look into it.
   
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Might want to look into a Reaper Exarch with Fast Shot on a Quad Gun too. Statistically the Quad Gun blows the Icarus Lascannon out of the water on it's own.

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Did the reaper numbers include the fact that jink saves are not allowed?

I must be rollong well above atatistical averagr because it seems to always bring down a flyer

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Very interesting input.

Wave Serpent with TL-Scatter Lasers and Serpent Shield
vs AV 10 - 22.35%
vs AV 11 - 12.79%
vs AV 12 - 5.06%
vs Heldrake - 3.11%


Is the Serpent Shield counting as TL? If not, could you make another option where both weapons are TL?
And also possibly adding Shuriken Cannon to it?

I'd be very grateful if you did so.

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I was thinking about the dark reaper and the jink thing. If it lets you ensure the kill, that's fine. But sometimes the threat of being shot down makes them jink. And if they jink, it's all snapshots the following turn for them. If they don't get the jink save, they are just going fly straight, and if you fail to knock them out of the sky, fire at full effect next turn.

   
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macexor wrote:
Very interesting input.

Wave Serpent with TL-Scatter Lasers and Serpent Shield
vs AV 10 - 22.35%
vs AV 11 - 12.79%
vs AV 12 - 5.06%
vs Heldrake - 3.11%


Is the Serpent Shield counting as TL? If not, could you make another option where both weapons are TL?
And also possibly adding Shuriken Cannon to it?

I'd be very grateful if you did so.


The serpent shield would be calculating the probability of getting laser lock off the TL'd scatter lasers.

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Killed a GUO.
Killed Angrath the Gargantuan Bloodthirster in an Apoc game (with the help of Iranna the Spirit Seer).
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 Nevelon wrote:
I was thinking about the dark reaper and the jink thing. If it lets you ensure the kill, that's fine. But sometimes the threat of being shot down makes them jink. And if they jink, it's all snapshots the following turn for them. If they don't get the jink save, they are just going fly straight, and if you fail to knock them out of the sky, fire at full effect next turn.


Then shoot at them with something else first?
   
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macexor wrote:
Very interesting input.

Wave Serpent with TL-Scatter Lasers and Serpent Shield
vs AV 10 - 22.35%
vs AV 11 - 12.79%
vs AV 12 - 5.06%
vs Heldrake - 3.11%


Is the Serpent Shield counting as TL? If not, could you make another option where both weapons are TL?
And also possibly adding Shuriken Cannon to it?

I'd be very grateful if you did so.


This calculation takes into account the chance that it won't always trigger twin linked from Laser Lock.
   
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Love the math! Nice one.

Problem with the analysis on the Crimson Hunter though, is that it gets smoked the turn it comes in by pretty much any interceptor fire.

   
 
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