Cluster Bomb

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Cluster Bomb
Type:	Projectile
Keyboard selection:	F2 (x2)
Standard effects:	Injury?, Very small circular craters
Present in:	Worms, Worms DC, Worms 2, W:A, WWP

Power settings
Power	Number of clusters	Maximum injury	Crater diameter
11	2	5? hp	? px
12	3	?	?
1	4	?	35
2	5	?	?
3	5	?	?
4	5	?	?
5	6	?	?
19	0?	23?	?
14	6	?	?
15	7	?	?
Initial explosion has same characteristics as each bomblet explosion. Values are per bomblet.

The Cluster Bomb acts precisely like a Grenade, except that when it explodes, it releases a handful of clusters.

Tactics

• When fired at a shallow angle into the water, the Cluster Bomb will skip on the surface of the water.
• When fired upward at a near-vertical angle with full power, a four second fuse will ensure that the Cluster Bomb explodes approximately at the same altitude that it was fired, allowing for somewhat predictable shots.
• The Cluster Bomb can be planted as a stationery bomb (dropped) by firing directly up or down with a low power.
• The Cluster Bomb can cause a lot of injury to a worm if it is placed directly beneath it, so that all the clusters explodes simultaneously on the worm. If the victim is standing on a steep slope, this can be achieved by moving beneath the worm as close as possible, jumping vertically to dislodge him, then moving a little closer before dropping a Cluster Bomb.

Criticisms, Problems and Weaknesses

• The Cluster Bomb rarely achieves any significant damage by itself except in rare circumstances.
• The Cluster Bomb's bounce is often unpredictable on slanted surfaces, due to aliasing.
• The motion of the emergent clusters is unpredictable.

Details

• There are 8192 possible angles for each bomblet to be projected (from -45 to +45 degrees from the vertical).
• There are 5900 possible initial speeds for each bomblet (can up up to 9% slower than maximum)
• The pure probability of these angles and speeds matching exactly on five bomblets is 1 in 5.5E30. However, it is possible for the in-game Psuedo-Random Number Generator to go into a loop when a cluster bomb explodes on frame that is 1 modulo 4, with a probability of 1/8192. Therefore the actual probability of all bomblets being in perfect sync is 1/32768. There have only been two recorded instances of this ever happening.
• If they fail to impact, the cluster bomblets explode 9 seconds after they are released.