I'm doing a Sons of the Veld adv which I enjoy, I am following the Killste guide for this as his guides usually work well.
Except in SotV at one point I have been unable to get one block in particular to work, I suspect it's down to wrongful placement of generals.
So I attack one camp seperatly to reduce the risk of losses, and do a lesser block with fewer gens.
I consider the loss of a few extra R's acceptable balanced against a possible loss of quality troops if the block fails.
Now this camp contains 80 Guard Dogs and 80 Rangers.
I'm attacking with a Veteran Gen with 80R and 118S, with a typical loss of 63R to my troops.
80R+118S=198 troops,
If I increase the number of soldiers to 170 so as to fill my vet gen full, I still kill the camp, of course, but don't reduce the number of R's lost.
That's ok.
My question is this.
If I increase the number of soldiers above what the guide and a combat sim says is there a danger to my troops ?
I remember reading somewhere on this forum about something called "splashback".
Also surely increasing the number of soldiers should also reduce the number of R's lost.
What am I missing here ?
Any ideas? anyone ?