Terrain testing results

Building:

The close quarter hand-to-hand combat required when fighting in a building is a blessing to the well trained spear or swordsman. Cavalry, however, find it extremely hard to fight here.

Spear and swordsmen find that building fighting is their place to shine. An intimate knowledge of the choke points in a building also somehwat benefits defending bowmen despite their limited arcs of fire. Cavalry detest fighting in and around buildings.

to reduce the number of tests needed per square, this is important to do pre-tests.

pre-tests to know:

- if attack and defence bonus on a terrain is the same for 1 unit (if i remember, i tested this, and like u i found that the bonus is not the same)

- if simple and advanced units have the same atk/def bonuses on a terrain (didnt test that but i guess they have the same bonus)

- if each race has different bonuses for the same type of unit on a terrain type (i didnt test, but i hope there is no racial bonus, ifnot you need to test all the units for each race)


pre-tests are very important, because depending on what we could learn by these pre-tests, we could need 1024 battles per terrain, or only 6 battles/terrain.


exemple1 : if different bonus for def/atk, different bonus for simple/advanced unit, different bonus for each race: 2 bonus/unit--> *2=4 bonus/ unit type (spearmen, archers..) --> *4=16 bonus/race (without siegeengines) --> *4= 64 total bonus to find --> 64/2=32=number of units to test--> 32*32= 1024 tests/ terrain

exemple2 (the one i right now  think is the good one):
if different bonus for def/atk, same bonus for simple/advanced unit, same bonus for each race:
2 bonus/unit--> *4=8 total bonus to find (no matter which race)-->8/2=4 units to test-->  4*4 = 16 battles/terrain

oh, OK, n is a bit smaller (or vanishes), as we know exact numbers there...
so only those 128*128, when someone is smart enough to calculate back all those commander stats... (might be some work...)


Edited by Hora - 07 Feb 2011 at 14:57

i did some pre-tests with a friend, but i stopped after the city move.

we found some bonus on plains, supposing that infantry had 0 bonus.


i dont know how did you find -10% bonus attack for infantry on small mountains, because normally you can just say that you had 10% bonus difference between infantry's attack and defender's defence.

you can just define a difference of bonus between the attack of an unit and the def of an other unit... and if you want to put "real bonus" you just have to chose 1 type of unit to have 0% bonus or whatever... and then you find the bonus of the other units by comparaison.


but just knowing the difference  of bonus between each units on a square, you can create a calculator that would give you the exact difference of strengh between an attacking and a defending army on the chosen square.
it could say: attackers have 60% more strengh than defenders, for exemple.



but personnally i dont know how to create that kind of calculator, and there are too many tests to do, and Gm's said that new terrain types will appear... so i stopped the tests for the moment.

When you clcik the XML report you see a combat terrain type:

<location>

  <X>354</X>

  <Y>-322</Y>

  <terrainspecifictype id="25">Bleak Mountains</terrainspecifictype>

  <terraincombattype id="1">Large Mountain</terraincombattype>

 

 

 

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