Talk:Marksmanship/@comment-108.209.68.150-20150128141542/@comment-172.10.137.218-20150901232835

Each die still has a 50% chance of rolling a focus or a crit, so either way you've got the same chance of a crit! The difference is that Marksmanship requires an action and takes an EPT slot, whearas the Mangler Cannon cost more, works even without an action (and mangler+focus gets you the same # of hits & crits), and frees up that EPT.

Heavy Laser Cannon + Marskmanship is probably not such a good choice for Ten Numb - you'll end up with no crits 32% of the time (compared to only 12.5% of the time with Marksmanship alone or Mangler). If you want HLC, you should really just fly Keyan instead