Re: MEpbm How does multiple army combat work?

From: eichmann@ceres.amp.uni-hannover.de (Holger Eichmann)

Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 00:00:00 +0000

Hi!

>For a start, if one nation has more than one army in a hex, and
>gives an attack order for just one of them, do the others join in?

No, the other will not join in (except the enemy army will attack them, too).

>Also, if there are say four players in a square, and two of them
>attack the other two (attack enemy) and one of the  others gives
>attack nation vs just one of the first two, hoe is the damage split?

I think, if one army fights against two enemy armies, its strength is
split proportional to the number of troops of the two armies (e.g. army A
attacks army B (2500HC) and army C (7500 MA), then army B is facing 25% of
the combat strength of army A and army C is facing 75%). I think your
example is only more complicated then my example (A with 1000 troops fights
C with 2000 troops and D with 500 troops, while B with 1500 troops fights
only D, then A sees 40% of the strength of C and 40% of the strength of D,
B sees 60% of C and 60% of D, C sees 80% of A and D sees 20% of A and 100%
of B. I hope I made no mistake).

BTW: If either A and B attack C and D via attack enemy like in your
question, it isn't important any more whether C attacks A only via attack
nation. C must also fight against B, because it is attacked by B.

>How do pop centres effect this? Are the answers to any of these
>questions if attack pop centre is used instead of army?

I only heard of this one effect of population centers to army battles:
If there are fortifications present, each army of the same nation like
the population center get a bonus to their constitution value, 10% for
a tower, 20 % for a citadel. There is no difference whether you attack
an enemy army via attack enemy or attack pop.

Holger

P.S.: I have written a combat calculator for MEPBM for Windows 3.1.
Its help file contains more information about how I suppose that combat
works. It is still a beta version and I don't have exact values for
all these modifiers, but perhaps you are interested. You can find it
at ftp.funet.fi in the /pub/doc/games/roleplay/systems/play-by-mail
directory and is called mepbm_e1.zip. Of course I may send it to you via
email, too.

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Holger Eichmann

eichmann@ceres.amp.uni-hannover.de

References

MEpbm How does multiple army combat work?
andrewdm@cs.mu.OZ.AU (Andrew Duncan Macdonald)
Wed, 09 Aug 1995 00:00:00 +0000