Did you know that? (Dominions trivia) - Page 16

Sombre · #1 January 5th, 2009, 11:46 AM

What, in addition to the +1RP for having an extra point of astral?

analytic_kernel · #2 January 5th, 2009, 12:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sombre

What, in addition to the +1RP for having an extra point of astral?

Ooops. You're right.

chrispedersen · #3 January 6th, 2009, 10:38 PM

Sooo the next interesting factoid sitting around in my head...
Whats the difference between

recruiting
ababababababababababababababababab

and recruiting
aaaaaaaaaaaaaabbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb?

Answer:
units are numbered sequentially. Units to the right tend to get placed toward the enemy. Try it a few times and you'll see what I mean.

JimMorrison · #4 January 6th, 2009, 10:58 PM

I believe that units are placed in formation in a growing spiral, so alternating your recruitment should indeed give you a much better dispersal of your "combined arms" squad - see Figure A.

Figure A:

987
216
345

Due to double digit numbers, I cannot expand the spiral further. Unless I go fully alphanumeric! - see Figure B.

Figure B:

PONML
A987K
B216J
C345I
DEFGH

chrispedersen · #5 January 6th, 2009, 11:05 PM

yeah, that was my point Jim. but I was way to lazy to type it.
can make recruiting a pain in the ***.. but it pays dividends.

MaxWilson · #6 January 7th, 2009, 01:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JimMorrison

I believe that units are placed in formation in a growing spiral, so alternating your recruitment should indeed give you a much better dispersal of your "combined arms" squad - see Figure A.

Figure A:

987
216
345

Since chris's first post I have been paying more attention to this, and I have observed the opposite: it seems to start in the corner (where you have 3) and build from there. Specifically, I saw one squad

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

get placed like chris's first variant:

GGGG
aaaaaG
aaaaaG
aaaaaG

I'm still gathering observations, though. By the time I come back to Dom3 in a couple of weeks you'll probably have it all figured out.

-Max

JimMorrison · #7 January 7th, 2009, 03:38 AM

Ohhhh, I like this. I've based this mostly off of observations of adding 1 turn of recruitment to your starting army. You're saying it's more like -

567
348
129

Basically building outward in 2 directions from the starting "corner" of the formation?

chrispedersen · #8 January 6th, 2009, 11:08 PM

Interesting idea.. and does anyone know....

If you are equiped with two long weapons - like for example.. thunderwhips...

Do you get *two* repel attempts per enemy attack or 1?
Will each attack get decremented by 2, aka 2,2,4,4,6,6 or 2,4,6,8,10..
and will it chose the better attack?

Finally: as another quick tactic for people... Repelling works great if you are scary: (PoD!), or if you're spamming terror.... as the unit has to make an morale check to continue if repelled.

lch · #9 January 7th, 2009, 05:57 AM

That might make sense, it would be pretty easy to get implemented in a for/while-loop. A better word may be concentric (quarter)circles than a spiral, if you want to be exact.

chrispedersen · #10 January 7th, 2009, 10:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lch

That might make sense, it would be pretty easy to get implemented in a for/while-loop. A better word may be concentric (quarter)circles than a spiral, if you want to be exact.

What they are basically doing (in my opinion)

A: Trunc (SQRT(units in formation))
B Form square

x..
...
1.x where x is the trunc'd sqrt.

C. Fill remaining:

The way to test this is to build 16of one unit, then 1 each of other units.