Advanced Attacking: a work in progress

Here are the links to the files you will need.

For the guide you will need a reasonably new version of MS word (one that reads xdoc) or you can't see the formulae.

 

thats me buggered then...i cant figure out how to use word

-Cavalry has a 25% bonus defending on plains (not 30%)

-Cavalry has no bonus defending on small hills (unlike everything else, which has 5%)

-Did a lot of testing on small mountains. The current configuration should work well.

-The button is changed to Salararius' better minimization algorithm (if you use the macro version)

I still lack some good research on large mountains and buildings. The current modifiers are educated guesses based on very few reports. Large hills should be a bit better than these, but not that good also. All of these modifiers are in yellow. Will post 1.4 once I get all of them down. That may take a while. 

EDIT: Oh and thanks Mara for pointing out the small hills thing, among other comments. I do appreciate any help.

I don't think it could be changed without seriously altering the way combat is calculated. 

EDIT: This doesn't mean heroism hurts you. It just helps you a lot more when you attack with fewer troops (down to about 65 sent...)

There's no specific reason for it. You can only have 5 commanders, but I suppose you can have as many as 8 different types of troops . It wouldn't be hard to expand the calculator to allow for that, but it would maybe become a bit big and cumbersome. I suppose I could remove the camp troops part and make the troop-input part bigger, since there are no humanoid camps anymore. 

On the other hand factions are coming back at some point, so I will wait to see what will happen there. 

I think you have to draw the line somewhere though. If I expanded it to include pvp for example (which I could), there could be situations with hundreds of commanders and their troops. It just wouldn't be practical to use this type of calculator for that. It would really have to be able to read scout reports directly and I'm not yet able to do that sort of thing (maybe some day?). I know from a game I played before, utopia, that could do that. You could just put a report in the program (it was called crystal ball) and poof, it would set the calculator for you. Very nice. Maybe Illy tools can be setup to do that...