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    Quote Originally Posted by Gerontius View Post
    For enemy troops, they are attacked by your troops in the order shown in the camp's graphic from left to right, except when that order is overridden by Attacks Weakest. So, in the example battle above, the Boars are attacked first until they are all dead, then the Wolves are attacked, then the Foxes and finally the Unicorn boss. However cavalry will attack the Foxes (who have the lowest base HP) first, then the Wolves, etc.
    Does enybody know if the new pop-up shows the bandits in the order in which they are attacked?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rafnir View Post
    Killste's thread of collected adventures has several millions of views. You really don't think the guides in that thread are about as optimised as it's possible to get them???

    Your intentions are good, but if considering the reason you give, it's a waste of time. That's undoubtly why no one even cares to reply. Sorry.
    No they are not because each setup is different and tweaks make the adventure better playable or even cheaper.
    Besides that, guides generally contain errors, unintended but if you can spot that typo you can easily help yourself out.

    well yes... if you dont want to think, just follow the guides as they are :-)

    Quote Originally Posted by Durin_d View Post
    Does enybody know if the new pop-up shows the bandits in the order in which they are attacked?
    Yes, they do not show up in attack-order, it seems to be pretty random to me. just make sure you check for first-strike or last-strike

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    Gerontius thanks for this guide!

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    Guide updated to reflect the fact that the game no longer tells you the combat order: you have to use a simulator to find out

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    Not seen this before it bounced to the New Posts section. Great work Gerontius. Killste's guides are great if you simply want to follow a recipe of send this, attack with that, lose this, job done. This tries to help players understand why those troops are sent etc. Drives me nuts just how many cannot work attacks out from first principles.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rafnir View Post
    Killste's thread of collected adventures has several millions of views. You really don't think the guides in that thread are about as optimised as it's possible to get them???

    Your intentions are good, but if considering the reason you give, it's a waste of time. That's undoubtly why no one even cares to reply. Sorry.
    I totally disagree. I use guides all the time (usually from the online Wiki) but if you take the time there are huge variations possible. I sometimes switch bows/recruits for example because I consider bows the cheapest to make (only needing pinewood) even though it takes more time to make the weapons it's worth it to me. Also I may add waves, remove waves, use an MMA in a wave to reduce the loss from the final attack, lots of different techniques. I will combine different versions of guides from many different sources to change attack order, troops, generals, etc.

    The payoff has been in almost every adventure I lose less troops than the guides indicate. In some cases just a very few less losses, but less is more. A good understanding of the battle mechanics helps you find situations where you can improve.

    Thanks Gerontius - this was very well done and even though I've played for a year I got a couple of items out of it. Cheers!
    Last edited by Xibor; 02.11.15 at 22:32.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Xibor View Post
    I totally disagree. I use guides all the time (usually from the online Wiki) but if you take the time there are huge variations possible. I sometimes switch bows/recruits for example because I consider bows the cheapest to make (only needing pinewood) even though it takes more time to make the weapons it's worth it to me. Also I may add waves, remove waves, use an MMA in a wave to reduce the loss from the final attack, lots of different techniques. I will combine different versions of guides from many different sources to change attack order, troops, generals, etc.

    The payoff has been in almost every adventure I lose less troops than the guides indicate. In some cases just a very few less losses, but less is more. A good understanding of the battle mechanics helps you find situations where you can improve.

    Thanks Gerontius - this was very well done and even though I've played for a year I got a couple of items out of it. Cheers!
    I'm also doing it like this. In many guides you're able to switch units and also play with the waves for fewer losses.
    Last edited by Escape_Artist; 03.11.15 at 10:54.

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    i like the idea but the simulator does not have the elite units included so i can`t work out if there will be any future value

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    It does not matter if a guide is optimised or not. Not all guides get updated when new Generals arrive, less popular adventures don't see that many revisions the guide writers are too busy keeping up with the popular ones. It maybe they don't have a particular adventure to test with which is possibly true with Event adventures like Garrun or Eotw. So it's threads like this we have to turn to if we want to run say Eotw using Dracul and Mods.
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    Quote Originally Posted by blewboy View Post
    i like the idea but the simulator does not have the elite units included so i can`t work out if there will be any future value
    Which simulator are you using?

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