Veteranewbie
Prince
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Say if you can lose, then it is not 100% now is it? But I always heard guys talking about how a spearman beating a tank, is that possible?
Can you lose a fight with a 100% combat odd?
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Arminius
Jeff Vader
A buddy of mine lost with 100.0% combat odds in his favor. 2 days later, he lost twice in a row with 99.8% combat odds in his favor. There was more cursing than I've ever heard.
Anyrate, I assume that the 100.0% lose was more truly a 99.95+% that had to be rounded up. As long as the opposing unit has a strength value there is a chance, if ever so slim, that it will be victorious.
Anyrate, I assume that the 100.0% lose was more truly a 99.95+% that had to be rounded up. As long as the opposing unit has a strength value there is a chance, if ever so slim, that it will be victorious.
MrCynical
Deity
Since the display only goes to 1 decimal place it may display odds as 100% due to rounding sometimes. You may therefore lose very occasionally when it displays odds of 100%. In any battle you in practice have a finite chance of losing (though it may be immensely slim), so you never genuinely have a 100% chance of winning.
warpstorm
Yumbo? Yumbo!
There is no true 100% odds possible in the Civ4 combat system. The way it is set up, either side could win if the dice go just right.
Cu Chulainn
The Unoriginal
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Wait wait, spearmen get +100% vs mounted units and when attacking this is taken off of the defender, so why doesn't attacking a cavalry with no promotions yield an instant win for the spearman? I have to be missing something.
MrCynical
Deity
If a unit has +100% against another it means that it's relative strength is doubled, not its chance of winning the combat. In practice the way it does this is to halve the strength of the mounted unit when defending, so the spearman has a high, but not 100% chance of winning.
KrikkitTwo
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Cu Chulainn said:
When the Total effects are negative, ie spearman attacking Cavalry=-100% to cavalry,
then the effect of the bonus is different instead of adding that negative percentage, it makes the cavalries strength = Base / (1 + 'Penalty') amount
so the +100% only cuts the defender's strength in half if there are no other penalties/bonuses.
RogerBacon
King
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The odds calculator has some bugs or some strange way of calculating the numbers because I've seen 100.1 % before.
Roger Bacon
Roger Bacon
enchanter100
Warlord
It has a problem with first strike promotions
