Artillery

"Tom Johnson" <thjohnson DeleteThis @ti.com> wrote
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> "Markus Armbruster" <armbru DeleteThis @pond.sub.org> wrote in message
> news:87k6871kud.fsf@pike.pond.sub.org...
>> foresterjamie DeleteThis @yahoo.com.au writes:
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>> There's a little twist: the attacker disables offensive support
>> manually, using the optional support arguments. The defender can't do
>> that, because defense is automatic. Instead, support is cancelled if
>> the odds are too bad or too good. This is checked again between the
>> different kinds of support (in this order: forts, ships, land units,
>> planes), and the remainder is cancelled if odds have become too good.
>
> This is different from the strength calculations used for reacting units.
> Units stop reacting when the defensive strength (NOT including offensive
> or defensive support) reaches 1.2x attacking strength. What is the
> multiplier for "odds are too bad or too good". I once heard it was 10x.

And thus the reason for attacking with as much of a 1:1 (or slightly
less) ratio as possible to simply play the "odds" of battle rather
than directly deal with reacting units.

I think the multiplier you're referring to is "odds are bad" which is
if the defender can only muster 10% of the attacker's strength, any
possible reacting units think better of it. That'd be your 10x (or .1
depending on how you want to look at it).

Mr. Ed