Strategy

[Relegin Bor]

Originally posted by SlowThinker:
Relegin Bor,
There is an "Attachment:" field under the "Post reply" page.
Do you want to insert a html table directly into you text?

No, I just wanted to cut'n'paste a table out of Word. Can this be done?

Cheers,

Relegin Bor

 

[SlowThinker]

<font size=1>Originally posted by Relegin Bor </font>
OK! So, I did some more tests and found a consistant slight advantage to the defender. So, thinking my method flawed, I went back to basics and just had a regular Warrior versus a regular Warrior. No fortifying, non-veteran, un-modified grassland . 200 combats me attacking the AI, 200 combats the AI attacking me. The results:
Me vs AI 66 to 134 - ie: a 2 to 1 advantage to the defender.

AI vs Me 61 to 139 - ie: again a 2 to 1 advantage to the defender.

What’s going on here?

It is OK. The defender wins 9/8 of battles, the attacker wins 7/8 of them. (the defender has always an advantage: read <A HREF="http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=988">Info: Combat (GL)</A> thread <IMG SRC="http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/wink.gif" border=0> )
i.e. wins are split in the ratio 9 : 7 and it causes a high probability that the defender will win all the combat.

<font size=1>Originally posted by Relegin Bor </font>
Slow Thinker’s bonus to the stronger unit (which I have heard of but coudn’t find in the literature)
PS: Slow Thinker, the example I quoted for determining combat comes from the ToT rule book (Hey, I didn’t claim originallity! ).
Do you suspect we are deliberately being misled? Or am I justing getting more paranoid?

This is the literature: <A HREF="http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=988">Info: Combat (GL)</A> thread <IMG SRC="http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/wink.gif" border=0>
There is written in the rule book of classic CivII that they won't bother us with particular details... We are not deliberately being misled, but liberated from complications <IMG SRC="http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/wink.gif" border=0>
And errors are everywhere (books, civilopedia, War Academy...). The idea of "condensed" threads should solve it: errors are corrected continuously.

<font size=1>Originally posted by Relegin Bor </font>
To be Fortified is not cumulative with fortress, only Fortress applies.
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DOH! "Well I'll be a henpecked chicken in a hog patch!" I've only been playing for five years and this fact eluded me! Is it the same for fortifying behind City Walls?

Yes, but not for SAM and Coastal f.
Read <A HREF="http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=988">Info: Combat (GL)</A> thread! <IMG SRC="http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/biggrin.gif" border=0>

<font size=1>Originally posted by Relegin Bor </font>
No, I just wanted to cut'n'paste a table out of Word. Can this be done?

You may attach a word file or transform the table from word to html and insert the html code into the post directly (but there will be a problem with end-of-line-markers. Find "A. As first post (or first two or more posts) of the thread" in "The Great Library: a hierarchical structure" thread for details}.

Edit:
See the debate between me and DaveV:
<A HREF="http://www.apolyton.net/forums/Forum1/HTML/001761.html">Modifiers for Attack/Defense</A>. It explains "the bonus" of stronger unit.

[This message has been edited by SlowThinker (edited July 22, 2001).]

 

[SlowThinker]

The multiplyingbonuses.sav attachment works now.
I hope so...

 

[Cunobelin Of Hippo]

Eqution:

The Hippo Theory:

My units=WIN 100%

AI units=LOSE 100%

all other calculations remain futile!

 

[Relegin Bor]

Originally posted by Cunobelin Of Hippo:
Eqution:

The Hippo Theory:

My units=WIN 100% <IMG SRC="http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/biggrin.gif" border=0>
AI units=LOSE 100% <IMG SRC="http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/biggrin.gif" border=0>

all other calculations remain futile! <IMG SRC="http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/mwaha.gif" border=0>

Must be those rocket ships on your pj's!<IMG SRC="http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/wink.gif" border=0>

Slow Thinker -

Thanks for the tip - I read the GL:Combat thread. Very interesting, and new! I see the "Unified Terrain Theory" made it in there (3.3). <IMG SRC="http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/wink.gif" border=0> I'd recommend it to anyone who is interested in the outcome of battles - particularly "evenly" matched opponents.

I downloaded DaveV's combat calculator. It suggests the probability of an attacking Warrior winning v another Warrior is 28.97%, and an attacking Horseman winning v a Phalanx as 39.11% - which would fit the results from my previous post.

The GL:Combat thread suggests that Partisans have up to a 10x bonus v non-combat units. I knew they were more than just pretty faces.<IMG SRC="http://forums.civfanatics.com/ubb/wink.gif" border=0> I still wouldn't build them.

Cheers,

Relegin Bor
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[This message has been edited by Relegin Bor (edited July 24, 2001).]