Originally posted by etj4Eagle
This is assuming that there are intrinsic "cheats" in the game that create super units. You are making a wild assumption that this is the case and therefore dismissing the test map because of that. There has yet to be any verified reporting of anything of the like occuring. As others have pointing out if you have terrible luck in taking out a certain unit, if you reload the game and try attacking a different unit you will have the same problem. Also the developers have stated that there are no special cheats for the computer in the battle code.
A wild assumption, eh? but you do not know the basis upon which I have reached my personal conclusions.
The key behaviour which leads me to think this is that *particular individual units*, across saves, across different combat orders and across turns, are extremely hard to kill.
For example; I had a veteran infantryman attacking across a river into a flood plain with an unfortified spearman (not barbarian) defending.
The spearman won, without loosing any health.
I then made a second attack, with a veteran infantryman against the same unit, this time not across a river.
The spearman won again, loosing one health.
I make the odds of this 1 in 22,222.
I then reloaded the game, and changed the order of combats prior to that event.
That *one particular spearman* again defeated a veteran infantryman. This happened consistently, upon multiple reloads and different combat orders.
I then reloaded, did not attack him that turn, played the turn and went for him two turns later.
Again, he defeated a veteran infantryman (no river, spearman unfortified, still in a flood plain).
My conclusion: the odds of *that one spearman* being so fantastically lucky across all those different permutations is far larger than the probaility of some other factor making certain units abnormally hard to defeat.
I understand the programmers have stated no biases exist. However, this means there are no biases *they are aware of*. Every major program has number of bugs, and this IMO must be one of them.
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Callas