I thought it might be an interesting exercise to try ranking all of our combat units. Warning: your mileage may vary! I created a gauntlet of what I consider the 20 most competitive units in the game. I then awarded points on a 0-1 scale for how each of our units measure up, including fractional points for benefits such as tarpitting. The basic rubric I used was: Code: 0.0 Points - Our unit should stay away (Ex: Character Bus vs. Executioners) 0.5 Points - We bring value, but will need help (Ex: Ancient Stegadon vs. Demon Prince) 1.0 Points - This is an ideal matchup for this unit (Ex: 10x Kroxigor vs. Steam Tank) In addition, I awarded up to 5 bonus points to each unit based on the following criteria: Maneuverability (0-1), Cannon Resistance (0-1), Magic (0-1), Utility abilities (0-1), Psychology (0-1). I thought the results of this exercise were interesting enough to share. The maximum possible number of points is 25. Gauntlet Code: Daemon Prince Greater Demon Dragon Steam Tank 5x Demigryph Knights 5x Mournfang 5x Skullcrushers 18x Trolls 18x Ironguts 18x Crypt Horrors 30x White Lions 30x Phoenix Guard 30x Executioners 30x Nurgle Halberdiers 40x Savage Orcs 40x Longbeards 40x Hammerers 40x Plaguebearers 40x Witch Elves 40x Grave Guard Raw Results Code: 18.0 Character Bus 16.5 40x Temple Guard w/Razor Standard 15.0 Oldblood Cowboy 12.0 Battle Slann 11.0 Scar-vet Cowboy 11.0 6x Ripperdactyl Riders 8.5 Scarnosaur 8.5 Ancient Stegadon 8.5 10x Kroxigor 7.5 40x Saurus 6.5 36x Skinks + 3 Kroxigor 6.0 Bastiladon 4.0 Stegadon 3.5 12x Cold One Riders 2.5 Troglodon One way to look at army building is to say you are purchasing potential winning matchups by spending points. Using that point of view leads to the following calculation: Efficiency of Points Code: 73% Scar-vet Cowboy 60% Oldblood Cowboy 46% 6x Ripperdactyl Riders 40% Bastiladon 34% Ancient Stegadon 28% 40x Temple Guard w/Razor Standard 24% Battle Slann 24% Scarnosaur 23% Character Bus 20% Stegadon 19% 40x Saurus 19% 36x Skinks + 3 Kroxigor 17% 10x Kroxigor 13% Troglodon 10% 12x Cold One Riders
I see nobody has bothered to comment on this yet. Personally I'm not quite sure what I'm supposed to understand from your numbers. Maybe try and elaborate a bit more? Edit: I get the efficiency part, just not the point allocation, maybe I'm just misunderstandiMr something though
I'm missing some Units from your list, but i guess that they've been covered on the FOrum before, mostly just skink cohorts, would be interested to see how far below Saurus they'd end up, if that would be the case. Interesting math nonetheless, will defo return to this when i sit down and consider what to bring!
The only thing I took away was that troglodon are more efficient than 12 CoC. This actually inspired me to try it! The math is kind of interesting, but it just ranks common builds in terms of an all-comers list and points efficiency vs general utility. If I wanted to field 24 Saurus with a scar-vet, for example, that is not included. I appreciate it as a reference point though
Well of course our elete units work well aginst other armies elete units. and yea cold one rank low, because runing them against units with a ton of high stenght attacks is, well a terrible idea as it negates most or all of thier armor.