Re: Legends: how tactics work (and battle question)

From: dresnick@athena.mit.edu (David I Resnick)

Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1993 21:48:40 +0000

In article <1qcc7p$prr@agate.berkeley.edu> griffith@xcf.Berkeley.EDU (Jim "The Big Dweeb" Griffith) writes:

In article <DRESNICK.93Apr12084309@alfredo.mit.edu> dresnick@athena.mit.edu (David I Resnick) writes:
   >I'm a bit confused by what the Combat and Arcane Arts book means when
   >it says that the leader with highest tactics "receives a +5% overall
   >modifier for every point of tactics he/she has over the opposing
   >leader".  To what soldier (character?) stats does this +5% apply????

It's applied to soldier AF and DF.  So if you have a 12 tactics and your
   opponent has a 6 tactics, your soldiers' AF's and DF's get multiplied by
   1.3.

Thanks.  Does it in any way affect MAR, SAR, SA,  or missile attack
factors?  And by saying soldier, I assume you mean NOT characters
assigned to slots?

Also, I have lots of general battle questions:

I'm contemplating attacking a town but am worried by the
large reserve slots armed with bows/crossbows.  I'll have a decent
force and a 20 tactics advantage.  I'll also kill about 30% of the
total force in the magic round (ah, 60 points of firestorm will really
do the job on those MAR 1 slots).. However I dunno how to figure out
the following:

1) What exactly determines the morale drop of a slot and a force?

2) At what morale% will a slot withdraw?

3) At what morale% will a force rout (is force morale avg of slot morale??

4) How does slot attacks work once the front line starts to go away?
For example, if I kill slot 3, does my slot 3 then attack slot 7?  Or
does it have go fight slots 2/4 first?

I want to figure out all this because if I have to kill every last one
of these guys my force will really take a beating.  I'm hoping that
they will break and run relatively early.  This has happened in all of
the villages I've attacked (of course, I've been toasting 60+ percent
of the force in the magic rounds, and after the charge round not a lot
of enemy soldiers are there!

Thanks for any answers to these questions!

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       David Resnick                           dresnick@athena.mit.edu

References

Legends: how tactics work
dresnick@athena.mit.edu (David I Resnick)
Mon, 12 Apr 1993 12:43:09 +0000
Re: Legends: how tactics work
griffith@xcf.Berkeley.EDU (Jim "The Big Dweeb" Griffith)
Mon, 12 Apr 1993 18:26:01 +0000

Referenced By

Legends: how tactics work
dresnick@athena.mit.edu (David I Resnick)
Mon, 12 Apr 1993 12:43:09 +0000
Re: Legends: how tactics work
griffith@xcf.Berkeley.EDU (Jim "The Big Dweeb" Griffith)
Mon, 12 Apr 1993 18:26:01 +0000