BattleZone II Strategy Guide

Having found the information provided in the manual far more than lacking, this section was absolutely necessary for me to develop. You will find every weapon available in the game here, along with detailed information on each, even more than is provided by looking at a weapon's information in game. I am someone who is very picky about statistics, so to say "moderate" regarding damage simply would not do.

 

You will notice that the weapons that follow give you numerical values for Ammo and Damage. While there is no way to get the exact values for these, the following is rather accurate for practical purposes.

Damage was calculated as follows, against an ISDF Tank.

The ISDF Tank has a hull capacity of 3500. In game, however, it displays your damage by %. Because of this it follows that 1% is equal to 35 points of damage. After calculating the amount of damage done by each % lost, the rest is easy. I fired each weapon, at point blank range, at two tanks, checking the damage done to each. After a while I found out that the damage done to each was equal, however I continued to double check to make sure.

While some weapons may have splash damage, that varies, there is no direct way to calculate this. There is also no way, that I found, to take into account armor. The one thing that this will give you is a good perception of how much damage you can expect each weapon to do, as a basis for comparison.

Ammo has a far simpler calculation method. The Tank was used to determine the Ammo capacity of the Combat weapons that can be equipped on Tanks. The Rocket Tank was used for all Rocket Calculations, the Assault Tank was used for Assault Cannons, and the Turrets were used for calculating the ammo capacity for each of the Assault Guns.

To use the ISDF Tank as an example, here is how Ammo was calculated. The ISDF Tank has an ammo capacity of 2200. The standard AT-Stab will give you 200 shots. Therefore if you divide 2200 by 200, you will find that each shots takes up 11 ammo points. Any remainder is rounded up, since you cannot have partial shots.

With these two calculations you should be able to figure out, on paper, how many shots with any given weapon you will have in any given unit.