Mercs

[Satani666]

For example. If I had 10mill trained supers with best weapons and I had 10mill attack/defense mercs with best weapons. Would they be of the same strength? Or would the 10m mercs be weaker?

[Juliette]

Mercs have the strength of super soldiers but die twice as quickly.

[Satani666]

Okay thankyou for answering my question

Also, If I had 40m supers with 40m Mercs, with 80m weapons to match. When I attack, would it just be the mercs which would die? Or what percentage of each would die?

[Bromas]

Okay thankyou for answering my question

Also, If I had 40m supers with 40m Mercs, with 80m weapons to match. When I attack, would it just be the mercs which would die? Or what percentage of each would die?

Both would die, mercs more than Supers. The typical trick is to leave some mercs unarmed and as a sort of overdraft.

e.g. 50M attack supers + 30M mercs
(I do it that way, I believe most have their own way of doing it)

[Satani666]

Awesome! Thanks

[Juliette]

2mercs:1super die if you have equal numbers.

[Bromas]

2mercs:1super die if you have equal numbers.

I'll assume you mean all armed with the same weps as well?

[Juliette]

2mercs:1super die if you have equal numbers.

I'll assume you mean all armed with the same weps as well?

It is of no consequence on kill rates whether troops are armed or not.
The rate is perfectly 2:1 when you have mercs:supers in equal numbers. Having regular attackers screws up that perfect ratio though.

50m mercs : 50m supers (armed or not)
1m mercs : 1m supers (armed or not)
Death rate:
2 : 1

[Bromas]

kk

[Dmonix]

Mercs have half the strength of super soldiers which is still 5x the strength of a normal attack unit and die twice as quickly.

1mil mercs fully armed should give around 200bil power whereas supers give around 400bil.

They're a great support to a defense but shouldn't be entirely relied on

[Dubby_CompGamerGeek2]

wow, the amount of conflicting information in this thread is truly astounding.

especially without any kind of qualifiers like "I think", or "my best guess".

I will post some corrections in a few minutes, once I check my sources.

[Mathlord]

Mercs have half the strength of supers and die twice as quickly.

If you have 100 mil def supers (at unknown ascension level) and 100 mil def weps, you will have a 40 tril defense.

If you have 100 mil def supers + 100 mil def mercs (at unknown ascension level) and 200 mil def weps, you will have a 60 tril defense.

If you have 100 mil def supers + 100 mil def mercs, 2/3 of your losses from each attack are mercs and only 1/3 are supers.

[Dubby_CompGamerGeek2]

indeed. ^^^^

and last I knew:
mercs strength = regular troop strength.

unarmed troops drop like flies... which is why only mercs should ever be unarmed.

last I checked, they didn't even seem to show up in the attack log casualties...

that's how many died.

[doc holliday]

Juliette you really seem to be missin out on a lot of simple game mechanic knowledge for the job you have...

[Bromas]

Juliette you really seem to be missin out on a lot of simple game mechanic knowledge for the job you have...

Isn't NG her job?