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Still another patch, although I was fine without it.

I do, but since it's what I normally play with, it was what got updated with the patch, and the Matrix version doesn't have its old beta patch versions available unless they're hiding someplace other than the beta thread on the forum that I don't know about.

OTOH, there's a fix patch out so it doesn't matter, and I'll slog through the turn shortly.

But lemme ask a WTH question similar to yours about my infantry HP. What does the freakish mutant commander of the 8th Dreadburghers (apparently one Marius Bonoux) look like? Before I crashed, an attack I launched on them showed him giving a OHQ bonus to his troops of ~600%. I've rarely if ever seen bonuses over 200%.

[Ugh, gave in and loaded up the save to see how bad the first turn of war was before going AFK. Had the game lock up on me when opening the stratagem interface. If that doesn't resolve itself when I have time to mess with things properly, there may be a longer delay than anticipated. I'll know tonight or tomorrow...]

I gotta say, this naming convention really confuses me. THIS is a Diet Burgher?



Not a Loaded Burgher? Deluxe, Supreme? Not even a Heavy Burgher?

We never shall understand the private sector...

Well, I'm not exactly thinking that those two fresh infantry corps are gonna do me any favors, especially with all the other combined-arms OOB units you raised to support them. Seeing 150k standard infantry alone under arms is ugly, NGL.

I do salute your embrace of more civilized customs by organizing an Audit Support Brigade in the Olfario Ruins zone, though.

[Also, just to be clear: what happened to the Cephaloids in Apelar this turn is a tit-for-tat response for your sneaky-cheeky coastal incursion into the Tobaro reservation.]

I feel slightly dense for never doing the simple math to work this out before, but...



782/477 = 1.64
782 = 477 * 1.64

Thus:

Unit HP = Armor Strength * Armor Design %

Likewise:

Soft Attack (attacking) = (Fire Power * Weapon Design %)/2
Soft Attack (defending) = Fire Power * Weapon Design %

Hard Attack (attacking) = (Fire Power * Weapon Design %)/4 * (100 + AP bonus) %
Hard Attack (defending) = (Fire Power * Weapon Design %)/2 * (100 + AP bonus) %

I'm just not sure how much the initial profession matters here.

FWIW, my impression has always been that in addition to direct specializations, your career makes you more inclined to spend points on a set of skills besides just your specialty. See forex my former Econ director; most of those skills were learned in the 69 turns she spent doing Econ tasks:

Can you be more specific? I discovered a handful of military techs from the AI under one of my cities that I'm currently scared to talk to again (it's how I got Battledress w/o Walkers, and how I learned about Beam Guns w/o Laser Guns, even though unlike you I decided to go ahead and learn LG before diving into BG), and I didn't discover both Charged Gauss & Gas Weps until pretty late (Gas just this turn) so I could skip them.

Here's a question you might not want to answer, since I can't tell from my periodic spy reports: do you have all your councils active, or have you been doing Applied/Air research through your Mil council? I ask b/c while I'd never to do that myself, those aforementioned spy reports have been really confusing some turns, where I just couldn't figure out what your Mil council was studying unless it was doing something linear. If you are doing that, you may be losing more than you gain by concentrating your BP due to the penalties for concentrating BP. Alternately, I suppose you may have been pausing research to force specific discoveries before opening a new field, which is something I managed to avoid doing this game; that's probably also helped my progress.

The related question would be how much of your budget is going to Mil, and how Mil divides its discovery and research. I've been at around 15-20% to Mil all game, and ramped up to my current 30/70 split fairly quickly (I doubt it was ever below 40/60 after the first 10 turns, and it may have gone straight to 33/67 TBH).

O/w, I'd point out that I've pretty consistently had a fairly large Research Bonus even if it's not as obscene as yours; right now I have 65% for Econ/Applied/Air and 82% for Military (although TBH this might also apply to some Applied and all Air; IDK), and I'm fairly sure my BP production has dwarfed yours all game (the +40% BP and occasional Bureaucratic Push stratagems from Gov have certainly helped). You're catching up on Bureaucracy, but you put more emphasis on industry for a lot of the game. It's possible that higher gov't directly affects BP output or application w/o really talking about it; there are some subtle effects that aren't well documented like how Meritocracy impacts recruited leader Capability (though I wanna say Gov leans more towards impacting tax tolerance than BP output, but there's enough black box mechanics I'm not sure).

It probably also has helped that my starting (Cap IV) Military director's career is scientist. I made the mistake of putting a Cap III/Int 43 tank commander in charge of my Econ council on turn 4, and while she did more-or-less okay for a long time, she spend so much time improving her military skills I cracked 7 turns ago and switched her back to an OHQ so I could replace her with a Cap IV trader. The trader has already gone from 0 (okay, technically 16) Science to half what her predecessor had after 72 turns in that role. Her Invention is a lot worse than her predecessor's was, but I've only got 2 more Econ discoveries I can make, so it's not that big of a deal.