Hi. Just to clarify, sending out raids means that my fighters will attack the enemies already on the map? Thanks. Christina
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeremy Kaldobsky" <jer...@kaldobsky.com> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 3:06 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] better control of troop training in castaways Kelvin, you bring up a good question about the troop types. When you are attacking the enemy using the war tent, then there is absolutely no question that 5 of each type is better than 10 of each of only 2 types. Mission 3 really helps illustrate the importance of sending in different types of troops. I'm sure most of us are far less worried when 1 group of 5 knights shows up, than when 5 different groups with 1 of each soldier type shows up. Even though they are weaker individually, they can spread out and cause havoc in 5 times as many places! In that same way, when you spread our your army in raid groups, you deal far more damage to your enemy. When defending, you have a pretty good strategy already I would say. Since there are 4 skilled troop types, rather than 3 in a rock-paper-scissors plan, choosing any 2 which are opposite each other will make a good defending army. Of course, if you did happen to have all 4 types it would more completely cover all of the fighting advantages. I wanted the troops to mirror how the food works. Creating a huge stockpile of Knights is a lot like feeding your people all meat. It is simpler to set up and you tend to be quite efficient while producing more and more of the exact same thing. With the meat, your people are far less efficient than if they were being fed multiple food types, and with only 1 troop type you are missing out on the combat advantages each different type has. Each new good type you add, represents more planning and work, and tends to be the mark of a more skilled player. More often than not, the most skilled Castaways players seem to quite easily balance 2 or 3 food types when they used to struggle with just 1 as beginners. Troop production should mirror that. Struggling to maintain a knight-only army will likely transform in to players who almost effortlessly maintain armies of 3 troop types, and perhaps even 4. It is a little bold of me to make this prediction, but it appears to have gone this way with food production and the underlying risk/reward system is nearly identical for soldiers. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
