Guess the outcome [forum mini game proposal]

[PvK]

Does Abyssia have more than one commander? Looks like only one, and no missile troops. So I'm thinking the archers are on "Fire Archers" and they all immediately shoot and take out the commander, causing Abyssia to rout. Perhaps some troops of Man catch on fire as they chase into the fleeing Abyssians' heat aura.

A casting of or two of Howl on turn 1 could have a similar effect except 2-3 turns later, resulting in more troops of Man in the heat zone.

Other things could happen, though.

PvK

[Teraswaerto]

Well, what would you call all the Demonbreds, if not commanders?

No commander died due to missile fire, and as an aside, I don't think "fire archers" targets commanders unless the commanders are equipped with missile weapons.

[FAJ]

Teraswaerto said:

No commander died due to missile fire

Lucky you.

I say Abysia wins this matchup. not much on the man side looks scary to Abysians, My guess would be that the dragon spammed fire cloud and the demonbreds cast little fireballs until man routed.

Unless it was late game and man had some nasty spells. I can't recognize Man's caster levels by sprite, but i see no strong abysian casters if this were late in the game.

I am surprised to the see the casters all alone. Man usually has some fliers, like hawks, to attack rear and slow the enemy down while the longbows do their mojo.

[Teraswaerto]

My experience is that fliers on attack rear will not target casters if they are some distance away from any troops formations, and Man did have some fliers here. Not sure what their orders were.

Main attack spells used by Abysia were Fireball and Falling Fires.

Something I noticed was that even though Abysian heavy infantry with tower shields are very resistant even against Wind Guided longbows, when the arrows come in huge massess they will have an effect.

Interestingly, Wind Guide probably ensured that no arrow ever went anywhere near the casters. Accuracy isn't all good, all the time.

I've been under the impression fire archers will not target mages. Pretty shocking news if true.

[lch]

I am under the impression that fire/attack anybody always means "the troops" first, not the commanders, and mages don't count as archers, as commanders don't count as "rearmost" unless they have some normal units around them, too. Otherwise you could always win a fight pretty quick by building some flying / cavalry squads set to "attack rearmost" that attack after a few turns, passing by the slower main army force of the enemy. I would expect that "large enemy monsters" might be an exception to that.

Maybe this is not entirely true and the units just calculate their targets by maximum possible damage they can deal, in which case tightly packed infantery are "better" units for attacking to the AI than scattered single commanders.

[Hadrian_II]

I think abysia will win, i had myself to fight abysia once as man, and as they have big shield, strong armour and fire resistance, they are almost immune to arrows (200 longbowman killing about 2-3 abysians per turn). And as i dont see much mages for man id say that the falling fires of abysia will take half of mans army, while the fireballs will do the rest.

[WSzaboPeter]

Well, I think it's time to show the results:

The battle ended with my victory.
Starting/killed:
Man: 19/2 commanders; 451/169 regulars; 61/48 magic beings.
Abysia: 8/1 commanders; 200/176 regulars.

Well, to be honest, even I was surmised that I won.