x-factor
11 Apr 2020, 20:44
Commandos
Hi,
Commando's are not receiving 100% strength increase in mountains. Their strength in attack is 10, with the bonus of 100%, does this mean it should be 20. If so then this is not happening.
Roo 
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12 Apr 2020, 00:19
My 2 commandos could not kill 3 infantry in mountain terrain, this battle took 4 rounds, even if one round was a "x" factor, they should have won.
Will any mods reply? Is this a known issue? and will it be investigated?
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and btw, putting everything down to "x" factor is a cop out
12 Apr 2020, 01:05
Which level of infantry was it? Was the infantry defending in a core province? Any fortification there?
X-factor? 
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There is no lower or upper limit implemented for the so called "x-factor", which is basically following a bell curve. Although the chance is veeeeery small (maybe as low as 0.01%), extreme results like no visible damage dealt or multiple times the damage dealt may happen. Maybe they only happen in 1 of 10000 cases, but still they can. And we remember of course much more these extreme occurences then the usual combat results where everything goes as expected. [..]
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12 Apr 2020, 02:05
thats why i try to avoid meleecombat
and looking at how insane x-factor is in 1.0 i think it’s quite fair to blame it when you dont deal the dmg you expect to
i had one game where it felt like i’m having 0 dmg ticks half of the time 
12 Apr 2020, 13:26
Given all the factors of a battle including a random number for each attack which applies from zero to 100% of the rated damage it is not possible to draw any conclusions from a single battle.
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12 Apr 2020, 21:35
The "X-factor" does overwhelm any consideration of unit strengths or weakness on offense or defense, andVorlonFCW wrote:
random number for each attack which applies from zero to 100% of the rated damage it is not possible to draw any conclusions
certainly counts far more than any terrain bonus.
The deeper question is:
"Do the published unit descriptors have anything at all to do with the battle mechanics?"
Having tested a couple dozen games on Sone, I can testify that documented values have
absolutely no meaning there.
Is CoW headed in the same direction?
12 Apr 2020, 22:56
They do, but in many cases the variance from the X factor gives the appearance of it simply being a random chance. With the 1.5 mechanics the variance is limited to a closer range and this yields a combat experience that is much more dependent on the specified values.cycle9 wrote:
"Do the published unit descriptors have anything at all to do with the battle mechanics?"
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