22JUL24 - Military Unit Speed Increases

Sif wrote: Bows can attack any defender with extremely good ratio

Another example (now the best case for Cav and the worst case for Sentinels).

Lets look at a simplified (no commander skills) combat:

Base attack of Knights: 65

Base attack of Sentinel: 20

On plains for Knights: 84.5

On plains for Sentinel: 20

Defensive value for Sentinels:

On plains against Knights: 16

On plains against Sentinel: 24

Thus we get the following ratio:

Knight vs Sentinel on plains: 84.5/16 = 5.3

Sentinel vs Sentinel on plains: 20/24= 0.83

Considering Knights have double the upkeep we get a 5.3 ratio vs a 1.66 ratio for Sentinels.

It seems like there are a few baseline characterizations that would need to be made to make a comparison. I tend to like testing attack vs 1/3rd Kobolds, 1/3 Sents, and 1/3 heavy spears. It may be that Kobolds are more dominant but heavy spears are pretty similar as far as bows and cav go

For defence I think you can expect to be defending 50% cav, 30% inf and 20% bows

Additionally there are costs including price and time to rebuild. This could be a big variable which I don't know what it should be. imo the prime cost effect is upkeep ratio as this determines who holds more combat power in the initial battles of a war and can still dominate costs depending on a war's op rate. Then rebuild rate which would determine who can overcome the other by training speed. Then unit upfront cost. If you can achieve a high rate of operation turnover this can be a lot more important and drain the treasury of an opponent

I might value the costs as 60% upkeep ratio, 30% rebuild rate and 10% upfront unit costs but would be particularly interested in other takes on that. I'd say my experience in war was probably a beefy op every 2-3 months turning over committed troops as the long term average but this may be unusual. Notably using this would mean we would effectively be using the same turnover as regular tournament troops