Terrain testing results

I'd love for everyone to add to this - I suggest you try to keep the armies involved as simple as possible and refer to this for stats to decide numbers:

http://uk1.illyriad.co.uk/view_all_units.asp?unit=0

Sent By:    System Received By:    KillerPoodle Sent:    28AUG10 03:47 Subject:    Victorious battle against Zangi's forces at Square -25|-43 by KillerPoodle's forces from Poodleopolis Two opposing forces clash against each other. Cavalry comes into its own when able to strike hostile forces at will, and from unexpected directions - and nowhere is this more feasible than on open plains. Lightly armoured spear units, however, prefer terrain where there's some cover available. Fighting defensively on open plains, cavalry draws strength from the ability to form and reform their lines of engagement depending on the direction of battle, and it is here where cavalry excels. Attackers:    Unit:    Quantity:    Casualties:    Survivors: Commander: cav    Knight    1    Damaged for 76, 24 health remains. Troops:    Knights    19    14    5 Defenders:    Unit:    Quantity:    Casualties:    Survivors: Commander: Rocky    Slinger    1    Damaged for 100, 0 health remains. Troops:    Slingers    99    99    0

Hi, you may consider that on the same square and for the same unit, def and attack bonus could be different.

for exemple if on lonely peaks bows have +50% def, maybe they dont have +50% attck but a diferent %age of bonus


Edited by Mandarins31 - 28 Aug 2010 at 23:53

here infantry has a non negligable advantage on spearmen. they have 15-20% of survivors (7/39*100) while all the speamen are dead. so infantry has a medium advantage when attacking spearmen on plains.

KillerPoodle wrote: So, for example that could give values for a and b as follows: 1.0 and 1.869  or 0.8 and 1.49  (e.g. a 20% penalty to cav atk and a 50% bonus to bow defence) or 0.6 and 1.12 etc... There are an infinite number of possible values from this one equation - we would need more results to start narrowing down the actual values.

for me the only way to know the %age is first of all to find a square on which one an unit is not affected... so +0% bonus on attack or defense : so we could have the (Power)*1.0 and find the %age value of the other units on this square.

i think about plains and swordmen, its easy to know the bonus of every units on it because swordmen are unaffected:

Hills also benefit ranged units and spearmen to a lesser extent, and still penalise cavalry, but also to a lesser extent.  Swordsmen are largely unaffected by hilly terrain.

Plains provide the opportunity for cavalry to shine - their ability to maneuver makes them the masters of open flat space.  Lightly armoured spearmen dislike the open terrain of plains, where they are easier targets for cavalry and archers.

Edit: swordmen largely unaffected on hill (they are affected on mountains). they dont talk about them on plains. we can strongly suppose that swordmen are totally unaffected on plains




It will be much difficult on hills, forests, and mountains because we dont have any reference: every unit seems to be affected by the type of these grounds




-Exemple on plains with the previous report (swordmen attack spearmen):

they both have a power of 1000 (for exemple)
a=%bonus on swordmen attck
b=%bonus on spearmen def

39-7= 32
32/39= 0.821

1000*b/1000*a=0.821

b/a=0.821

swordmen unaffected => a=1.0

b=0.821a
b=0.821 => 17.9% penalty on spearmen def

(but because of the weight of the army, the luck etc... its better to say a penalty between -15% and -20%)






Edited by Mandarins31 - 29 Aug 2010 at 04:20