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ArchonShiva · 05-21-2015, 12:16 PM

Not a complete solution, but a tool to consider including in one:

Assume half of your damage is on targets of opportunity, so you can't optimize that. Determine a percentage up to 50% of your damage that you want on a specific target. Halve the value of this damage.

The opponent can either take this damage to the specified forces, or take four times that damage assigned normally.

Multipliers can be adjusted, and there should still be a roll involved, but the idea is that the attacker sacrifices damage to choose a target, but the defender can sacrifice troops (taking, in the end, even more damage) to protect a favored asset.

05-21-2015, 12:16 PM	#12
ArchonShiva Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Montréal, Québec	Re: Mass Combat battle strategy: Destroy enemy element! Not a complete solution, but a tool to consider including in one: Assume half of your damage is on targets of opportunity, so you can't optimize that. Determine a percentage up to 50% of your damage that you want on a specific target. Halve the value of this damage. The opponent can either take this damage to the specified forces, or take four times that damage assigned normally. Multipliers can be adjusted, and there should still be a roll involved, but the idea is that the attacker sacrifices damage to choose a target, but the defender can sacrifice troops (taking, in the end, even more damage) to protect a favored asset.