Spreadsheet comparing the 2 sides of the war

/me goes out to claim more sov

I don't know, everyone just tells me where to go and what to do.

While this is a nice effort to be scientific, I think the assumption that "most sov is used for troops" pretty much breaks the entire premise. Some alliances have many big cities with 8x Farmstead V (or Fishery V). Other alliances have mostly 8x Military III around their cities. Comparing those two configurations is apples to oranges. Even more so if the Farmstead V counts as 5 points (when it should be 0), but the Military III counts as 3 points.

A better methodology would be to eliminate all squares with Sov IV and V, assuming they are Farmsteads or Fisheries. Also eliminate all sovereignty claims over 20 for a city. I suspect this is spreadsheet just takes the alliance stat page Lands Claimed stat. Many people have pointed out that Consone spent a lot of time talking about the math. The numbers don't mean much unless you filter out all the noise, and that is certainly no small task.

Edited by Brandmeister - 13 Jan 2014 at 12:32

I agree that it really isn't a military town. However, large cities can support larger numbers of troops (to a point), so population can't be dismissed entirely.

As I said in other posts that tried to compare numbers: while it is difficult to do a quick comparison of stats, you can identify military players and alliances simply by looking at a few cities.

Rill wrote: /me goes out to claim more sov I'm guessing that the spreadsheet assumes everything is troop sov?  Alliances that support large cities with lots of food sov might end up looking more powerful than they actually are. I can only speak for my armies, and they can't fight their way out of a paper bag.  That is, if they could find the bag to begin with.