[Guide] Beginner's guide to TSO

[Tage]

Hi, can someone tell me what the exclamation mark on bandit camp means?

That's a camp which is considered too hard to kill in one wave (at least using a normal general).

[ehless]

Hi, and how do you know that tage?
And what about the combat preview...anybody knows what it is and how it works?

[Tage]

Hi, and how do you know that tage?

They've been on the tester for a while.

There are actually two kinds of exclamation marks on bandit camps...

• The skull tells it's a hard camp, needing more than one attack wave (according to BB)
• The crown tells it's a leader camp
• A skull with a crown means it's both the above

And what about the combat preview...anybody knows what it is and how it works?

Also the combat previewer has been on the tester, but I'd call it rather rudimentary.

It will not give you any result for hard camps (those with exclamation marks and skulls), just telling you that more than one wave is needed. And it will tell you that even if you'd smash the camp with no losses (like attacking camp 7 in Outlaws with a veteran having 1E 249XB).

When attacking camps that are not considered hard, the combat previewer will give you one of the following four estimates:

• Complete victory - you will lose 20% of your units at most.
• Acceptable losses - you will lose between 20% and 50% of your units.
• High losses - you will lose between 50% and 95% of your units.
• Complete defeat - you will lose more than 90% of your units or may even be defeated.

It does not however take into account the types of units being lost.
Thus it would e.g. consider a loss of 80 soldiers (less than 50%) to be better than a loss of 120 recruits (more than 50%).

I will still be using my favourite combat simulator rather than even checking the ingame combat previewer.

[ehless]

Thanks a lot Tage.

[Phiddle]

I will still be using my favourite combat simulator rather than even checking the ingame combat previewer.

Any chance of a link to your fav sim?

[Tage]

This is the one I prefer

[companion]

how can I demolish sawmill?

[Dilbe]

how can I demolish sawmill?

Open the build menu where you can select buildings you want to build. Then go to the right tab in that window. There is a icon of a building with a bomb next to it. Click on that, then click on your sawmill you want destroyed.

[companion]

after two days of searching, I've find it myself. thanks anyway!

[companion]

how can I upgrade mayor house, capacity is 700, and it needs 810 for upgrade?