This happened in a duel I had with Zues, I'm pretty sure pikemen shouldn't be doing this much damage to eachother maby the special got wacked out somehow and its getting its special bonus against other rocks as well.

Your army, Pikemen_1, attacked Zues : Pikemen_4
Army, Pikemen_4, has been destroyed.
Pikemen_1(45,40) = Wounds : 0.0, Killed : 0, Exp : 875
Pikemen_4(46,41) = Wounds : 253, Killed : 7.

Last Edited : Friday, 1 January 2010 - 17:22

What were the respective attack/defence strengths? I've noticed that large differences can make the damage done go over the maximum quoted figure. E.g. a catapult with +45 attack attacking a cat with no defence bonus at all has killed 7/10 pop before now. Like attacking like more typically kills about 3 pop if the attack/defence strengths are equal. (Which they should never be when medieval fights medieval, because you should never attack without a commandeer within 3 hexes)

Also, I see there is no retal damage - I have noticed the units seem to take more damage if they have already used their retal.

57 attack for attacker 18 defence on defender.

could a mod change the title as well i ment rough dono how the "t" got in there

On most forums Admin is the only one that can change a thread titles,I think Mog has Admin status so maybe its best to ask him.
My Mod powers are limited to only a few options.
Cheers Angie

Yeah that would probably explain it. I think it works on the difference, but not sure exactly how.
Perhaps your +39 difference adds +78% to damage done?
This would increase the pikemens' damage range from 100-150 to 178-267.
Or maybe the att/def bonus is less, but there is a cumulative "defending unit has already retaliated" bonus that has helped increase the damage to 253?

Unfortunately (from a scientific rather than military viewpoint), you destroyed the army completely, so we cannot determine how much damage your pikeman was capable of doing in this attack. It might have been more than 253...

Hm I thought it might be due to the bonus but it just seems like such a huge boost, maby doing some tests in the simulator would sort this out, i can get to that in a sec.

Ya, as I thought the simulator imply doesn't match up with the results. I ran max damage and the most I was able to kill was 5. Another weird thing tho, try running the simulator at 100 of each. It will that attackers come out with about 86 men alive and defender 75 but when u change it to 10 and 10 the results are totally different.

Just as an experiment I tried attacking with the attack/defence supplied.
First I used a pop 4 comm vs a pop 8 pikeman which reduced the pop 8 pike to a pop 7 and used up its retal then I attacked that pop 7 pike with the pop 10 pike also using the attack/defences given and the result was all 7 pikes were destroyed....go figure...it worked for me

Titles of threads are carved in stone, I think only Req could change them, I have never asked.

Always double-check those titles!

heh no kidding @.@
So think this might be a legitimate problem anyoe?

Thanks to spell check I suppose

:/ I just type to fast without looking @.@