[Freeciv-Dev] Re: chance of winning a battle

[Christian Knoke <ChrisK@xxxxxxxx>]

Am Donnerstag, 12. Juli 2001 01:13 schrieb Trent Piepho:
> On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Gregory Berkolaiko wrote:
> > Question:
> > Has anyone actually had a go at
> > "91 - Create a function that gives a statistically excact value for
> > a units 92   chance of winning a battle." ??
> > Just didn't want to reinvent things...
>
> If you want something hard, figure out multiple unit battles.  For
> example, if you have three different units which can attack a single
> enemy unit.  What order should they attack in to minimize the
> expected value of the unit cost you will lose.

yep, and vice versa, which one of a stack of units should
do the defense. This affects all the fighting in the game very
much.

Christian

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