
Originally Posted by
Celegans
The fight only lasted 3 rounds. I don't think this outcome would be possible if they started 5000 paces apart.
I think the theory is just written confusingly, sorry. 5000 isn't the distance everything starts apart, it's just the maximum distance something CAN start apart, if it had 4800 base range (which nothing does); it's the size of the 'battle arena'. The distance each unit starts from the center is (baseRangeOfUnit/2) + 100, so the ballistas start 1400/2 + 100 = 800 units from the midpoint, so the ballistas on both sides start 1600 units apart, which, if they both move at least 100 on the first turn (which they will easily pass with HBR, even with HBR 0 they would) or have range extension from archery to extend their range far enough (or, as is true with most cases, both), they will still be in range of each other in the first round.
(EDIT: According to the theory, I still don't have proof. My reason for it is that if you exercise a catapault vs another catapault, it takes them 2 turns to kill each other, so the first turn must have them too far apart still, while 1 ballist vs 1 ballist ends in the first round, meaning that the ballistas move 200 spaces closer on the first turn and can see each other, but the catapaults move 160 spaces closer but don't, so the buffer has to be something bigger than 160, or some other weird system.)
Last edited by Vecius; 06-28-2009 at 10:13 PM.
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