Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-25931200-20190129200054/@comment-25931200-20190129214753

IronJaw333 wrote: I will vote for better quality. Here are a few reasons:


 * 1) 1) Lets look at it from a pretty obvious standpoint. If you're in Mordor, wanting to go out and kill a certain town of Gondorians (which may or may not be run by your brother :^) Would you take some orcs or some black uruks? Perhaps an olog hai? Spider riders even? Orcs will die too quickly, they don't do enough damage, and even 3v1 orcs against a gondorian soldier will lose. Now, Black Uruks from mordor will view a better result. They have better armor, hit harder, and in my opinion, look cooler. Throw in an olog-hai or two, and the town is nothing but ruins.


 * 1) 2) Now lets look at this: If you will be fighting someone else (a player, say) and they have quantity and you have quality troops. Elite forces will be better at fighting off more troops. An elite unit (an elf soldier or cavalry) will always destroy an orc. And, they can fight and win against MULTIPLE orcs, so if every ranger/elf/dwarf/gondorian can kill an average of... 3 orcs? 2 at the VERY least, you can fight an army 2 or even 3 times bigger than your own, and most likely come out as the victor.


 * 1) 3) Just because you have quality, doesn't mean you cant have quantity as well. You can have 50 riders of rohan, they work better than 50 orcs XD


 * 1) 4) Overall, unless you are EXTREMELY heavily outnumbered (10v1) quality will almost always win. Another very important factor however, is who you're fighting, who are your troops, and what kind of fighting/tactics you are doing and using. Guerilla warfare? Siege? Hit-and-run? Rangers v.s uruk-hai? Dwarves or mirkwood elves?

Hope this was some help! I meant in the mod, a Gondorian soldier has a sword that does 6 hearts of damage and has 20 hearts of HP, but costs half as much as elf warrior that has a sword that does 8 hearts of damage and have 30 HP himself, i believe Elf armor is no better then Gondorian armor. So pure maths will tell us that 2 gondorian soldiers will together do 12 hearts of damage as opposed to Elf warrior's 8, and have a total of 40 hearts as opposed to elf warrior's 30, for the same price, now the elf warrior does get a ranged attack so that cmbined with his staying power (the ability to not doe in a mass brawl in a situation where gondorian can) may make up for the disparity. Either way as far as quality and quantity goes, barring server limitations that obviously dictate you should take as many of the most powerful troops as you can, you will always be able to take twice as many Gondorian soldiers with you as you would elf warriors, and there is not really a way to dispute that, it's simple math, n/m will always give you a higher number then n/(m*2).