Jul 3rd 2011, 12:05:15
I just did a bit of a comparison of EM's vs other missiles and harmful spy ops on the TKO forums, which is leading to this post. I'll compare EM's with Demo's and CD's. Given EM's do destroy both offensive and defesive units, but in all practicality they are not used to reduce the effectiveness of the offence of another country. They do have their use though..... to lemming down someones SDI before a chem rush lol.
The minimum readiness multiplier a defender can have is 70%.
To reduce a country to 70% of its original mil strength, at best it takes (non-tyr):
Demos: 7 turns (69% readiness)
CD's : 9 turns (69.25% of original troops)
EMs: 22 turns (89.5% of original units @ 78% readiness)
Given that for most governments it 2-3 x the amount of turns to get the same results from EM's as Demo/CD then the gains from EM's seems out of proportion. I've got a couple of ideas to change EM's
1) Each successful EM reduces readiness by 3% and military by up to 1.5% in relation to the mil numbers the attacker is carrying (ie a country with 10k troops couldn't destroy 1.5% of the troops/turrets/jets/tanks of a country with 1mil troops/turrets/jets/tanks)
2) No readiness loss and up to 3.5% (compared with the attackers mil levels) of the defensive units (troops/turrets/tanks) are destroyed by each successful EM. This could also be useful in solo games to try and retal a grab (though the missiler would risk being AB'd to fluff lol).
3) Each successful EM reduces readiness by 2% and the defenders turrets by up to 2% again in comparison to the attackers turret level.
Personally I'd prefer something that takes in to account readiness as it brings another element when calculating a break.
fell free to flame away.
The minimum readiness multiplier a defender can have is 70%.
To reduce a country to 70% of its original mil strength, at best it takes (non-tyr):
Demos: 7 turns (69% readiness)
CD's : 9 turns (69.25% of original troops)
EMs: 22 turns (89.5% of original units @ 78% readiness)
Given that for most governments it 2-3 x the amount of turns to get the same results from EM's as Demo/CD then the gains from EM's seems out of proportion. I've got a couple of ideas to change EM's
1) Each successful EM reduces readiness by 3% and military by up to 1.5% in relation to the mil numbers the attacker is carrying (ie a country with 10k troops couldn't destroy 1.5% of the troops/turrets/jets/tanks of a country with 1mil troops/turrets/jets/tanks)
2) No readiness loss and up to 3.5% (compared with the attackers mil levels) of the defensive units (troops/turrets/tanks) are destroyed by each successful EM. This could also be useful in solo games to try and retal a grab (though the missiler would risk being AB'd to fluff lol).
3) Each successful EM reduces readiness by 2% and the defenders turrets by up to 2% again in comparison to the attackers turret level.
Personally I'd prefer something that takes in to account readiness as it brings another element when calculating a break.
fell free to flame away.
