If those are quite different from your circumstances, the end results might not be applicable to you. Now, just make sure you pay attention to some of the assumptions that I am making here (and check Objectives section below). If you’re into spreadsheets and detailed analysis you’re going to like it if not, uhm, well… OK, don’t worry, if that’s not your cup of tea, you can skip right to Build Recommendations section! You don’t need to do the whole analysis in order to benefit from its results 😉 Including the effect of AWs which I was unaware of.Alright, we’ve got quite a few calculations here. The discussion and points raised in this thread have been very helpful. no matter what you do, tourneys always get more expensive'. I've noticed that info re those three variable factors accounts for quite a bit too. In my Beta City, where the city is expanding and I play things much more fast and loose, there have been at least two occasions where I have laid down about 5 expansions together in preparation for a Fellowship Adventure and in the next tournament there has been a very noticeable increase in squad size which made things instantly much more difficult. the numbers of expansions placed seems to have the biggest impact. I was curious why my tournament enemy numbers have increased. I understand the difference between MAP ENCOUNTERS and tournament/spire. Because I have scouted so many provinces, and because I have won all the expansions, and because I placed those expansions into my city, it accounts for why I am seeing greater enemy troop numbers, in the tournament and spire. I do this routinely to get more space for buildings etc. I was assuming that readers would appreciate that the expansions won by scouting more provinces were subsequently placed into a player's city. How does this help? Not at all, no matter what you do, tourneys always get more expensive Just funny how math works. One can have lots in low cahpters (by progressing slowly or not at all) or one can have few in high chapters by deleting detrimental ones. And that means early in the game adding to those 2 will have a bigger influenceĪWs are the factor that depends much more on personal choice. So those two factors mainly depend on chapter. Also expansions are rather closely correlated to chapter progress, although diamonds for premiums are also an influence here as well as the choice of placing gained expansions or not. The number of techs is completely dependent on the chapter progress of course, so it is the same for everybody in the same place in the tree. Of course more likely is that the 3 factors are more similar which would then make the difference smaller. The above example could just as well be the reverse, in which case AWs would be the biggest problem, not the smallest. Imagine a case (completely hypothetical) where including all the fixed numbers gives you the following result:Īdding 1 expansion: 10*101*1000 = 1 010 000Įven within the same city it always makes the biggest difference if you increase the smallest contributor, no matter which one the smallest one actually is. Just to make things a bit more complicated The formula contains fixed numbers as well, but the variables are AWs, expansions and techs That is definitely one effect right there In the 1st round, the enemy squad size is 1/8 yours, they are equal by about province 6 (I think - someone can correct me here!) and around province 30 it's twice yours. Nothing you do influences the ratio between your squad size and the enemy's because it's fixed. It does not affect the difficulty of individual battles. This makes the whole tournament more expensive because more troops are lost overall, which makes it more difficult to complete the same number of provinces. The only way to make fights easier (other than with boosts) is to increase your own squad size through research.Īs and say, expansions placed contribute to the formula by which your squad size is calculated in the tournament and spire. You can reduce costs, and therefore enemy troop numbers - squad size - before you scout by completing the Advanced Scouts research (I think this was the gist of reply to you in the other thread). On the world map, enemy troop numbers are determined, at the time of scouting, by scouting costs. World map provinces and spire/tournament difficulty are completely different. Unless I'm misunderstanding you, you seem to be confusing a number of different things.

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