Experiments

Purpose:
Conduct experiments in order to answer questions.

Question 1: What is the attack order?

 * Guess:
 * Airweavers
 * Archons
 * Elite Mounted
 * Elite Melee
 * Mounted Ranged
 * Ranged
 * Mounted Melee
 * Melee
 * Guess: Attacker attacks first in the case of matching units.
 * Guess: Treasure items have no effect on attack order (i.e. Demonic General).
 * Guess: Strong -V- and Weak -V- do not determine attack order.

Question 2: What is the damage calculation?
Such as, how do I determine what units will die?

And how do Combat factors apply?

What calculations do walls apply to?
 * Guess: Armor Rating is Health.
 * Guess A: Each single attacking unit will strike 1 random defending unit.
 * Example: If I have 10 Airweavers, and the opponent has 10 Light Melee Infantry and 10 Light Ranged Infantry, the first calculation is 1 Airweaver attack either (1 Light Melee Infantry or 1 Light Ranged Infantry).
 * Guess B: Each single attacking unit will strike 1 random group of defending units.
 * Example: Same situation as above, but now my 1 Airweaver will be attack either (10 Light Melee Infantry or 10 Light Ranged Infantry)
 * Guess C: Each group attacking unit will strike 1 random group of defending units.
 * Example: Same situation as above, but now my 10 Airweavers will be attack either (10 Light Melee Infantry or 10 Light Ranged Infantry)
 * Permutations/Alterations to the above Guesses:
 * Can units counter-attack? Reports of Elite Melee Infantry can do this. (Guess: No)
 * If the attack against the unit(s) kills the unit(s), does the attack of the same attacking unit continue to apply the remaining attack value to the remianing defending units? (Guess: No)
 * Is the strike really random or does the attacker attack the fastest living unit of the defender? (Guess: Random)
 * Does a weakened unit (partial health) apply less Attack Rating to a defending unit? (Guess: No)

Question 3: Strong -V- and Weak -V-?
How does a unit Strong -V- and Weak -V- apply? (does it apply to attack and/or defense? (Guess: Attack only) Does attack speed become affected? (Guess: No))
 * Guess A:
 * Strong -V- against unit, means Attack Rating of the unit becomes x1.5 against the unit it is strong against.
 * Strong -V- Very Strong against unit, means Attack Rating of the unit becomes x2 against the unit it is strong against.
 * Weak -V- against unit, means Attack Rating of the attacking becomes x0.5 against the unit it is weak against.
 * Weak -V- Very Weak against unit, means Attack Rating of the unit becomes x0.25 against the unit it is weak against.

Question 4: What determines if a raid is Successful or Failed?
Kill ratio does not matter

Guess: Probably not damage ratio. Probably a points system that is like Experience

Experiment 1: 10 Airweavers vs 10 Archons
(to address some of Question 1 and some of Question 2)

Send 10 Airweavers (Avian Elite) to attack 10 Archons (Dark-Elf Elite). Repeat 5-10 times to compare results. Minimum walls (2 since you need Keep to make Elites), and no other Combat Factors (i.e. no Demonic General, no Training, etc.)
 * Expected Results (applying Guess C above):
 * 10 Airweavers attack 10 Archons.
 * Archons that die:
 * [(sum of 10 Airweaver Weapon Rating) - (sum of 10 Archon Armor Rating)] = Sum of surviving Archon Health.
 * Round_up[(Sum of surviving Archon Health) / (1 Archon full Health)] = Surviving Archons.
 * Surviving Archons attack 10 Airweavers.
 * [(sum of Surviving Archon Weapon Rating) - {(sum of 10 Airweaver Armor Rating) x Defense from walls}] = Sum of surviving Airweaver Health.
 * Round_up[(Sum of surviving Airweaver Health) / (1 Aiweaver full Health)] = Surviving Airweavers.
 * Actual Results: ?

Experiment 2: 10 Archons vs 10 Airweavers
(to address Question 1 - and determine if Airweavers always attack first)

Send 10 Archons (Dark-Elf Elite) to attack 10 Airweavers (Avian Elite). Repeat 5-10 times to compare results.


 * Expected Results: (same as above experiement but replace Airweaver with Archon). If different, then maybe Airweavers attacked second... Walls might skew results a little.
 * Actual Results: ?