Commander training

Hi all,

You have to favour the attackers because it's easy to defend a square en masse and impossible to gang together to all attack a square at the same time.

I think the bigger problem is that the troop bonuses seem almost meaningless next to the commanders personal bonuses.

At 1000 troops, all with an attack of, say, 15, putting a level into troop type boosts attack by 1%, assumming all the troops are the same type, results in an increase of 150 attack. Putting a level into personal attack for the commander results in about the same increase, regardless of the number of troops!

In a way, then, the defense boost is better - It is a lot more likely you'll have 1000 assorted troops than 1000 of a certain type, meaning that you can place your defensive commander in charge of all your various troops, and the bonuses still apply. You can use him to fill out gaps in your defenses - if you're in thick forest, you put your bonuses into defense against infantry and spears, for example. If you're on plains, against cavalry.

One level of heroism-enabled attack upgrade results in the equivalent of adding 6 troops of the same type as the commander, attack-wise. So a L20 commander with 20 levels in heroism will have an attack force equivalent to 121 troops of his own type (so, him plus 120 fictional ones). Times 5 commanders, that's 605 troops (the 5 commanders plus 600 fictional ones).

On the other hand, if you have an army of, say, 4000 units of the same type as the commander, with a *SINGLE* L20 commander with all points into squad attack, you have an equivalent attack power of 4800 units lead by a L0 commander, 195 equivalent troops extra compared to the previous five full-heroism commanders example. And if you also add 4 other commanders with heroism L20, that's 5284 units (compared to 4605 equivalent units if all commanders only trained heroism), for a whooping 679 extra equivalent units.

So, it does matter, but only later on. Early on, heroism all the way, for all you care.

Edited by Akita - 29 Jul 2010 at 02:58

Akita - your logic is sound but each commander attribute is limited to L10. My calc is that you need 600 units under a given commander for the 1% divisional bonus to equal a single personal level. More than 600 units (per commander) and a single divisional bonus level is better than a single personal level

I concur on leveling personal stats for commanders before divisional with a few exceptions. For example, speed is almost always useful for slow units (swords, spears) and I would not bother leveling attack for a spear unit until I had maxed out everything spears are actually useful for.