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jdrou

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necro bump.
Is this analysis still valid?
I don't think there have been any significant changes to land combat since this was written.
 

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While this is cool, it seems totally inconclusive.

What's needed is to take all the math out of the engine, and run it through a program that can do thousands of simulations on it and then just take the empirical results from that.

At which point you can conclusively show X is good at Y, and Z kills R the fastest.
 

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maybe I'm wrong but the whole calculation is based upon 1 on one encounters while the whole point of the calcualtion is to determine best army composition. Army composition MUST take battle line length into consideration.
1) As far as I know cav have have a flanking ability which allows them to attack the enemy armys side regiment even if its not front of them.
2) You may have a bigger army that can field in the first line of battle. At this point additional can and inf has no value while art does have.
 

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I always find these discussions interesting, but I've never seen anything to prove there's a superior alternative to historically plausible army composition.
 

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Why after upgrading to 1.3 patch no damage is ever taken by any side in combat while in the fire phase? I mean like completely never any, even if artilleries are present on the battlefield?
 

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Why after upgrading to 1.3 patch no damage is ever taken by any side in combat while in the fire phase? I mean like completely never any, even if artilleries are present on the battlefield?
At what tech level? At low levels the fire damage modifier is zero (see the "technology overview" ledger page to see the modifier).
 
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what is the "technology overview" ledger? I think there is no such ledger in EU3 1.3

By 1.3 do you mean base EU3, without any expansions (meaning not even Napoleon's Ambition and In Nomine)? If so I'd guess that we can't help you too much, because most people have been playing at least Complete, if not Chronicles, for the last several years.
 

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what is the "technology overview" ledger? I think there is no such ledger in EU3 1.3
The ledger page titled "technology overview". It definitely exists in 1.3.