Targeting Profile Questions

[ago1000]

Thanks Alvaro for your previous response.
Alvaro:
It's the targeting profile. If you have a transport with a 2-3 ships it's targeting profile is lower than alone.
If you escort an invading force with 2-3 ships it has a lower target profile.

Just wondering:
How is the targeting profile lowered? ie by the number of ships present? The type of ship present? How much AA is present in the fleet? Is there a formula that can be shared?

for example these numbers are approximates:
-10 transports without cover will all be sunk if there is enough air to strike at it if they invade one at a time.
-10 transports without cover and invading in pairs, 1/2 will always make it to shore.
-However, if the transport has a CV group with it, then 30% of the time the transport will be sunk and 6% of the time you will lose the CV group entirely. (ie: CV groups provide counter air cover support for the transports)
-If a BB grp is with the transport, then the transports will be sunk approximately 80% of the time.

I didn't test the other groups.

[AlvaroSousa]

Page 92 of the manual will explain about targeting.

[ago1000]

Thank you. I think I understand it. With enemy air and using my examples above
Targeting:
Targeting is done by adding all the target values together on a list then rolling a random number from zero to the total of the list.
Air to Naval
CV w Transport 6:4 or CV hit 60% to transport 40% (1-2-3-4-5-6 hit the CV 7-8-9-10 hit the transport)
BB w transport 4:4 or equal chance of hitting BB or transport (50-50).
Ok. Now I have to figure out hits. I think from the manual, it's patrolling air that intercept the naval units when they stop to invade?
If air units are within 10 hexes, they intercept. If a moving fleet is intercepted a round of combat is fought. Is that one hit and does it take one hit to sink a transport?

[AlvaroSousa]

Yes transports are easy targets to kill. 1 hit = dead.

If the Japs weren't so passive they would have wiped out the Taffy 3 at the Battle off Samar. They would have slaughtered the invasion force.

Be sure to look at the right columns.

Air Attack has a different target profile category than Surface or Sub combat.

So if you want to protect transports from surface combat use patrol groups. Thus why it is important to build them.
In air combat while carriers are the largest targets you want some cruiser and patrol groups to take the hits.

So there is even a strategy in assembling a fleet for different purposes.