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by TheChymera
Sun Oct 12, 2014 9:48 am
Forum: Conquer Club Discussion
Topic: Risk Strategy Manual
Replies: 13
Views: 3123

Re: Risk Strategy Manual

@ Kask :

c) and how would you calculate the expected losses? it's not only a matter of adding up the attrition from my table (see the bottom of the page), it's also a matter of determining the probability that x% of the attacks will be "3v2" (my notation!), "3v1", or "2v1", or "2v2" respectively ...
by TheChymera
Sun Oct 05, 2014 3:58 am
Forum: Conquer Club Discussion
Topic: Risk Strategy Manual
Replies: 13
Views: 3123

Re: Risk Strategy Manual

Hey there! many thanks for the positive feedback and for chipping in with your own ideas! Let me address a few of those:

Kask's :
(a) I indeed support reinforcing with one troop to get 4 troops on attacking territories (see my PR2 ). However, I am yet to find a normative method with which to ...
by TheChymera
Mon Sep 29, 2014 4:47 pm
Forum: Conquer Club Discussion
Topic: Risk Strategy Manual
Replies: 13
Views: 3123

Risk Strategy Manual

Hello again, about a month ago I wrote an article about calculating Risk dice odds( link ), and put together a script to help do that.

Recently, I tried to combine the knowledge from that any my gameplay experience to formulate a number of strategy guidelines (for 1v1 games - since I haven't gotten ...
by TheChymera
Sat Sep 27, 2014 11:49 am
Forum: Conquer Club Discussion
Topic: Single-attack Dice Odds
Replies: 4
Views: 2164

Re: Single-attack Dice Odds

My formulas are exactly what you wrote there - only with a shorter notation and generalized for s dice sides and a attackers. The long part before the final expressions is just the way I derived them

Also, since the defender never makes the decision whether to be attacked, victory probabilities ...
by TheChymera
Fri Sep 26, 2014 10:17 am
Forum: Conquer Club Discussion
Topic: Single-attack Dice Odds
Replies: 4
Views: 2164

Single-attack Dice Odds

Hi there, while trying to spice up my gameplay with a bit of science, I noticed that there's a lot of confounding info about that and a lot of sub-par odds calculators out there.

So I decided to calculate everything myself - and in the process put together an article about all single-attack ...

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