Promotion percentages in relation to base value

[Reg Pither]

I've spent a good hour scouring the forum and War Academy for these details, and I'm sure they must be there somewhere as they're such a basic thing, but I'm having no luck.

How are percentage promotions added to a unit?

If a Knight has 10 strength and gets the Combat 1 10% promotion, naturally enough, it goes up to 11.

If it then gets the Combat II 10 % promotion, is the addition 10% of 11, or is it 10% of its 'natural' strength of 10? So does it go to strength 12.1 or to strength 12?

I know this should be learned on day one, first class, but I'm not sure now and not sure if I ever actually knew. It's not like I've been playing this game for years or anything...

 

[sampsa]

Always to the natural strength i.e. combat II means +20% to the base strength. Note that while combat promos work like this, others work quite unintuitively. For example city raider I doesn't add your strength by +25%, it reduces the defender's bonuses by 25% (like fortify, city defences etc). What this means is that the higher strength advantage you have, the better combat promos are.

 

[rah]

Yeah first strikes and such but if you mouse over and see the calculated strengths it helps you see some of the more basic ones.

 

[pob]

Here's some related strategy articles:
combat explained
first strikes
air combat