Bonus against Barbarians

[alexman]

From GOTM18 description
Because this game is on Monarch difficulty, you have a one hundred percent (100%) attack bonus against barbarian units. This bonus does nothing to benefit you on defense when the barbs attack your cities or your units. Compared to last month's Gotm17-Carthage game that was on Regent difficult you have about a fifteen percent (15%) lower chance of easily killing the barbs. Remember that this advantage only applies when you attack barbarians.

Forgive me if this is common knowledge, but from a quick test I just did, the bonus against barbs applies when you are on defense as well.

Just sharing the info, because I have been taking the above quote for granted, and it has been affecting my strategy against barbs, probably getting some of my units killed for no reason.

 

[Naboo]

Mmmmm! Barbarians!

Soft on the outside

Crunchy on the inside

 

[AlanH]

The combat calculator seems to indicate this is true - the difficulty level bonus shows up as an attack *and* defence bonus. What was the other assumption doing to your tactics to cause you to lose units?

 

[alexman]

Yes, I knew about the combat calculator, but I also knew better than to doubt Cracker's words!

As for my silly tactics, it was just that I would attack barbs on a hill on Monarch, rather than let them attack my warrior on a hill, for example.

 

[AlanH]

I think I'm guilty of that as well. My excuse is I'm basically aggressive, and I hate just waiting to be attacked. But I'm learning .... slowly