Terrain testing results

Mandarins31 wrote: There are only 4 terrain type. Mountains, Hills, Forests and Plains. I don(t think that Lonely peaks, for exemple, gives more Def bonus to Archers than Treacherous Mountains. But yes finally we dont know, and we may be careful of that.

GM Stormcrow wrote: ... ...all squares in Illyriad pretty much fall into one of 4 categories: Plains Mountains Hills Forests Within those 4 types, there are subcategories (Light Forest and Dense Forest, Small Hills and Large Hills etc).  Whatever the "general" bonus or penalty to combat for each terrain type is generally smaller on the 'lesser' version of the square, and larger on the 'greater' version of the square. ...

If only we could get a GM to tell us whether or not the modifier is the same in att and def, and if a troop isn't mentioned in the description then do they have a modifier or not.

hehe ok so that's a piece of evidence 


to know if there is a difference between atk and def bonus for an unit, u just need to do a battle on a square with the same power for attackers and defenders of a same type.
then this is a so close battle: no modifier difference. if not u can just say if this unit have more def or more atk on this square.

if i had a question to ask to a GM that would be this one for exemple:

what is the defense modifer of archers on the "lesser" and the "greater" version of each type of square?

if only we had those 8 numbers, we could find the modifier on atk and def for each unit on each square.

But that may be a too big ask

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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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.

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