RE: [Epic] Flyer Formula

From: Kelley, Kevin J., JCS <kevin.kelley_at_...>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 15:14:22 -0500

Yeah, the number of dummies gets too large for the number of
observations. However, I have a cunning plan ...

With the flyers I noted that rg and FP are highly correlated so I am
going to try ratios and sqrt (rg *fp)

kevin.kelley_at_...
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>From: C.Sinclair[SMTP:csi_at_...]
>Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 1997 11:42 AM
>To: space-marine_at_...
>Subject: RE: [Epic] Flyer Formula
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>>I decided to crack the flyer formula as practice before trying to find
>>one
>>for all the other units. I came up with the following two formulas:
>>
>I tried something similar for the main force lists (excluding Chaos as these
>would be my forecasts) with dummies for the various special abilities.
>Estimates were all over the place and while the test stats were good, the
>formula itself was crap! I can only concur that there is no consistent
>formula. (In WH40K the vehicles are playtested for points values rather
>than using any sort of formula and then tweeking cf. Dark Millenium)
>
>Cheers,
>Colin
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