Attack/defence ratio

[Theon35]

Is there any equation or something, that lets you know how much will you lose when attacking someone.
What strike do i need to have to have less losses than the defender ?

PRIOR Naquadah stolen 15 1,615,233 3,856,233 29,169,403,710,800 16,316,671,744,800 details
LIVING GOD Naquadah stolen 15 175,413 634,259 26,950,909,039,400 4,947,465,600,000 details

I am just wondering what strike or army composition do i need to have to make the first attack profitable, ? And can someone please explain, how come that when attacking the guy with less def. i lost about 3.5x more units, and when attacking a guy with a bigger 16tril, def the ratio was about 2.5x.


EDIT: shoud have posted in the Newbie/ FAQ Forum , can a mod plese move ? Thanks!

[Clockwork]

Moved

[JasonJay]

What was your army build each attack?


You could of had a surplus of mercs on the one attack. They die for nothing

[Theon35]

About
Super Soldier 61,655,609
Attacking Mercenaries 68,725,186

How many supers and how maby merc die usually on a ordinary attack ? I think its 50%, but not sure, i get wird numbers ...

[JasonJay]

According to this
For a full 15 turn attack, 3% of your normal attack units can die (2% of defence units), while 1.5% (1% of defence units) supers can die. If you are at war and attacking, attack unit deaths are multiplied by 1.5. If both sides are at war, each is doubled. Ontop of this, defence unit deaths are multiplied by strike action/defence action and attack unit deaths are multiplied by defence action/strike action (there is a min/max of 10%/500%). Attacking at less that 20% of enemy defence causes no deaths to the enemy. So the max defense losses are 2/3 the max strike losses. And obviously any strike/defense ratio greater than one will favor you as it is your multiplier, but a ratio between 5 and 10 is boarder line as it reaches the caps of 5 in your kills and 1/10 in your losses.

Hope that helps and correct me if my math is bad.


Edit:
3% of 68,725,186 + 1.5% of 61,655,609 is 2,986,590

Your ratios were 0.1835732 and 0.559376

Which makes your losses

548,224 and 1,670,626


Lol my math worked for one attack



Math, not even once

[Theon35]

Hmmm, Thanks! i will study this further later today