Province Defense Messages

Psientist · #1 March 15th, 2007, 11:10 PM

Does anybody have any thoughts on what the various province defense messages actually signify in terms of defending militia?

E.g.
"no organized local defense"= 0
"lightly organized local defense" = 1-20
"well organized local defense" = 21-40
etc.?

Nick_K · #2 March 15th, 2007, 11:27 PM

Good question. I suspect it's the 0/10/20 cutoffs that are important. Is there anything above 'exceptionally strong and well organised'? I think starting home provinces get that.

Jazzepi · #3 March 15th, 2007, 11:46 PM

I would definitely like to see a better description of the PD. It basically meaningless to me at this point.

Jazzepi

Psientist · #4 March 16th, 2007, 10:09 AM

Well, I guess either the devs 'fess up, or we need to start taking notes on the subject when we play, and with scouts in advance of our armies!

thejeff · #5 March 16th, 2007, 10:36 AM

Spies reveal the actual PD numbers and still give the standard message. You can get the correlation from that.

I never actually nailed it down. When I had enough spies to make a good shot at it, I started focusing on the numbers and stopped paying attention to the reports.

Psientist · #6 March 16th, 2007, 03:12 PM

thejeff - does that include scouts as well as spies? And, if I interpret your post correctly, if the report is "...10 militia comprised mostly of archers. This province has a lightly organized defense" or some such, that "10" *includes* any of the "lightly organized" to which you refer?

If so, I would have to disagree because then you would *never* get a report there was only a small number of actual unassigned enemy units but that the province was well-defended. I have on numerous occasions ventured into a province that appeared to have few overall units, and gotten my butt kicked (and not by incoming armies, to my knowledge).