03-10-2008, 23:44 | #1 |
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The battle engine - WTF
Finished my third game today end tried a defensive approach during the WoI. For jsut one turn cause the hole city defense mechanism seems to be screwed?
I mean how is it possible that multiple fortified Soldiers with City defense in a non-coastal city with a Fortress and having a +25 FF are killed by Dragoons? That's a strength 3 unit + 175% + 25% + 20% = 9.6 in defense vs. a Dragoon with + 20% strength! Thats 9.6 vs. 4.4 and more than once. I imm. change to attack and won but imo the whole bonus system for city defense is broken. Or am I doing something wrong here?
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03-10-2008, 23:47 | #2 |
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Well, either you were extremely unlucky, or there's a bug. Perhaps you should look in the combat log to check if you're right about the chances.
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04-10-2008, 11:04 | #3 |
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I had the "feeling" I got screwed too! I'll check things out.
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04-10-2008, 11:31 | #4 |
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I checked things out. I'm fairly sure the wrong defending unit is picked. Dragoons, apparently, don't get any settlement defense bonus. Despite having several canons in my settlement, a dragoon is picked as defending unit.
Dragoons are not mentioned in colonopedia......
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04-10-2008, 11:36 | #5 |
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I checked things out. I'm fairly sure the wrong defending unit is picked. Dragoons, apparently, don't get any settlement defense bonus. Despite having several canons in my settlement, a dragoon is picked as defending unit.
Dragoons are not mentioned in colonopedia......
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27-10-2008, 12:41 | #6 |
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I think the bonus cannons get attacking settlements is ridiculous, my ones get 100% the REF 150%. Yet they are useless for anything else.
In my second game i found it more effecient to let the REF occupy a city then attack it back with my cannons
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