• You are at the mercy of an India Crush strategy that will Can Open blocks on J2 to open up a J3 landing.

    You currently have 13 Inf in Calcutta with 2 Ftr already there.

    Do you want 5 more Inf or 3 more Ftr?

    What if you have only 1 Ftr in Calcutta?


  • I’d say the infantry, every time. You get more bang for your buck in this situation.


  • infantry and maybe an AA gun dependng on how many planes there are and if you have spare change

  • '21 '19 '18 '17 '16

    I follow a rule of thumb for combat value as follows:
    attack or defend at a 1 CV =1
    attack or defend at a 2 CV=1.4
    attack or defend at a 3 CV=1.7
    attack or defend at a 4 CV=2

    So 5 infantry are worth 51.4 = 7, 3 fighters are worth 32 = 6.  Go with the infantry for better defense.

    I picked up the formula several years ago when I was reading an article on game theory, each unit is valued at the square root of the attack or defense value.


  • @Degrasse:

    I follow a rule of thumb for combat value as follows:
    attack or defend at a 1 CV =1
    attack or defend at a 2 CV=1.4
    attack or defend at a 3 CV=1.7
    attack or defend at a 4 CV=2

    So 5 infantry are worth 51.4 = 7, 3 fighters are worth 32 = 6.  Go with the infantry for better defense.

    I picked up the formula several years ago when I was reading an article on game theory, each unit is valued at the square root of the attack or defense value.

    Is there a point of diminishing returns?  Such as wouldn’t it make more sense after X amount of Inf to instead put Ftr over the top to get an advantage of 4’s rolling over lots of 2’s?


  • No.
    More infantry is always better on defense.  Without exception.

    For 30 IPCs you can get

    3 Fighters for

    3 hits and 12 points

    vs

    10 Infantry for

    10 hits and 20 points.

    No diminishing returns at all.

  • Liaison TripleA '11 '10

    Why is it only 5 infantry? or 3 fighters?

    And not 10 infantry or 3 fighters?


  • @Gargantua:

    Why is it only 5 infantry? or 3 fighters?

    And not 10 infantry or 3 fighters?

    Equivalent price for an AB on DNG to get 3 Anzac Ftr to India if the crush arrives.  Was trying to determine who should take DNG for a base of operations - Anzac or India.

    Opportunity cost was 15 IPC to get 3 Ftr to India or put 5 Inf on India.


  • there is only a point of diminishing returns when you can chose between 2 units, one that is cheaper per unit, the other is cheaper /combat die.

    the formula 1, 1.4, 1,7, 2  is the steady state for combat between 2 types of units, and no mixing.

    that is
    12 inf v 6 ftrs -> 8 inf v 4 ftrs
    so both sides has lost a third of its units, and the combat is a draw. when mixing units, there will be different results, and not as easy to calculate.

    if you want the losses to be equal in IPC, then if inf attack v inf, you need  1.6 attacking inf per defending inf.

    if attacking tanks that cost 5, you still only need about 1.7 to make sure losses are equal.

  • '21 '19 '18 '17 '16

    Lanchester’s Law on wikipedia is the game theory I was thinking about.

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