(September 27th, 2014, 05:16)Old Harry Wrote: I think I promoted all the Knights that I could - checking Cynheard's calculator a C2 Welly with +75% beats a C2 Knight with +25%perhaps you didn't have 75% on the Welly?
Ok, I found out what was the reason for this. This is actually pretty weird. If C2 Formation knight attacks a C2 Formation WE, knight has the odds. If WE attacks, WE has the odds. It sounds weird (at least to me) as neither of them gets defensive bonuses, but the structure of the formula that calculates the modified strength causes that. If knight attacks it's 12 vs 11.9, if WE attacks it's 8.4 vs 7.69 (attacker first in both cases). When quickly testing this last turn, I did not realize that there might be such a big difference (or difference at all) as nobody gets defensive bonuses and I had our knight selected as the attacker. Well, upgrading the knight into formation was the right call anyways, so in that sense no harm done, but pity that we were just on the wrong side of the jumping point in that fight.
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If our WE-bashing goes well I don't see us needing too many pikes, so if we upgrade something, maybe axe/HA is a better candidate?
And yup, let's not product knights in too excessive way so that our new Azza cities will take forever before getting up to speed, but overflowing from infra-build into knight and 2-pop whipping one in several places might be the way to go. After the attack of this turn (RNG, please do not screw us again) we probably also have a better idea on how many more units we will need in order to make decent progress.