Quick Guide: SBDE

No wonder my stacks of Infantry always seems to nearly lose to a single Militia. Thank you Nightman. I hope this helps a lot of new players like me

rockets SBDE is 15 and nuke rockets are probably the same

Nightman thank you so much for this, I never really fully understood SBDE until today. Now, I know how to stack my units right and conquer the enemy! Thanks so much for all the hard work with these amazing guides, keep up the good work!

Aren't destroyers' SDBE 7 not 5?

I'll look into it

Thanks! ... We could all become masters of stacking efficiency after this! ...

General Nightman... The man who won't let any forum visitor down!

hey guys....so in the new update 1.5 can i stack for example 8 inf 8 Artillery and 5 tanks and get the max efficiency

1.5 works differently. These numbers for each unit do not apply.

1.5 uses a stack based limit. Only the 10 most effective units in the stack will be counted in the combat calculation.

Read this:

https://forum.callofwar.com/index.php?thread/32080-in-ver-1-5-or-later-no-matter-how-many-units-are-stacked-is-only-15-units-reflec/&pageNo=1

General Nightman wrote:

Quick Guide: SDBE

"How much damage will this unit do?" A much asked question in Call of War, damage is a critical part of doing battles.

Often, units are stacked to increase damage, and load down your chances of winning,

Ever wonder why, even with huge stacks, you always seem to lose to smaller stacks?

Enter SBDE, State Based Damage Efficiency, a mechanism used to calculate how much damage your troops will do stacked.

In this guide, we will attempt to explain how to use SBDE, how to properly stack your troops to maximize damage and keep any eye out for well stacked troops.

What is SBDE?

SBDE, simply put, is how many troops you can put together in one stack and still do the maximum amount of damage.

Imagine it this way.

Say you have 8 rows of infantry, with each row at the same time. If you are in the back row, imagine how hard it would be to take a shot at the enemy. You can only see your fellow soliders up ahead of you, let alone the enemy.

Below is a chart showing the maximum units of one type you can stack together to get 100% damage from your units:

Units	Number
Militia	11
Infantry	8
Motorized Infantry	8
Artillery	8
Anti-tanks	8
Anti-Air	8
Armored Cars	8
Light Tanks	6
Medium Tanks	5
Heavy Tanks	5
Tank Destroyer	5
SP Artillery	6
SP Anti-air	6
Mechanized Infantry	6
Interceptor	5
Tactical Bomber	5
Strategic Bomber	5
Naval Bomber	5
Destroyer	5
Submarine	7
Cruiser	5
Battleship	3
Aircraft Carrier	3
Railroad Gun	3
Commandos	8
Paratroopers	TBD
Rockets	15
Rocket Fighters	5
Nuclear Bomber	3
Nuclear Rocket	No Limit

Using SBDE is easy, if you think about it. You simply stack together the maximum number of units you can, without going over 100% SBDE to get maximum damage.

However, one part is easily misunderstood about SBDE.

You can stack together multiple unit TYPES and still get 100% SBDE in your stack. For instance, I could stack together 8 infantry, 8 artillery and 6 tanks and still have 100% SBDE.

SBDE only applies to each unit type.

Why SBDE is lower than 100%

You painstaking looked at my dictionary length guide. You've properly stacked all your units to the correct SBDE for 100% damage. Glancing at your stats, your horrified to see your SBDE is less than 100%. Why is this?

Health plays a large role in SBDE, often decreasing your SBDE percentage, no matter how many troops you have stacked in there. A unit that normally has 100 men would not do as much damage when it only has 15 men left.

I hope this guide helps, if you have any questions or comments, please leave them below.

(The New 1.5 update may render this obsolete, but here it is anyways. I'll update it if things change.)

“hey! Let’s spend the whole game round building troops to put in the same place!“

Nice Trick, but if u spend your whole game round building and merging units, many countries will Attack u, and get all your provinces but the one with the units.

Think!

Anti tank and anti air is so hard to move in a quick timing! If someone attacks, how are u going to move the units to the front line?

in a regular CoW 1.0 classic match of clash of nations, in a province of only a barracks, you will try a Matilda stack. 11x 1day 12hours= 11days + 132 hours ( about16-17 days), it’s half your game wasted