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Mercs

Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2012 2:58 am
by 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?

Re: Mercs

Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2012 3:10 am
by Juliette
Mercs have the strength of super soldiers but die twice as quickly.

Re: Mercs

Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2012 3:14 am
by 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?

Re: Mercs

Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2012 3:58 am
by Bromas
Young Money wrote: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)

Re: Mercs

Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2012 4:03 am
by Satani666
Awesome! Thanks :)

Re: Mercs

Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2012 4:16 am
by Juliette
2mercs:1super die if you have equal numbers.

Re: Mercs

Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2012 4:41 am
by Bromas
Juliette wrote:2mercs:1super die if you have equal numbers.

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

Re: Mercs

Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2012 5:04 am
by Juliette
Andy! wrote:
Juliette wrote: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

Re: Mercs

Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2012 5:07 am
by Bromas
kk

Re: Mercs

Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2012 5:26 am
by 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

Re: Mercs

Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2012 10:01 am
by 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. :shock:

Re: Mercs

Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2012 10:40 am
by 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.

Re: Mercs

Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2012 10:43 am
by 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.

Re: Mercs

Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2012 10:46 am
by doc holliday
Juliette you really seem to be missin out on a lot of simple game mechanic knowledge for the job you have...

Re: Mercs

Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2012 11:04 am
by Bromas
doc holliday wrote:Juliette you really seem to be missin out on a lot of simple game mechanic knowledge for the job you have...

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