Teraz and folks, here are the comparative tables between ya, musks (ashi) and sa, ys (samurai).
The tables are based upon 100 man units and assuming that the relationship regarding morale is kept the same regardless of the casualty/number of man in starting unit.
...in other words, regardless of how many units u play with in ur settings!
Read carefully
hon 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
YA 100 140 196 274 384 538 753 1054
YS 200 280 392 549 769 1076 1506 2108
MU 175 245 343 480 672 941 1317 1844
SA 300 420 588 823 1152 1613 2258 3162
Now, can u get to the battle factor ratings regarding honour and morale ? lemme help ya
I will post in here the factors regarding honour only coz it's THESE which affect the way troops behave in combat and leave out those regarding formations and the like, since they have nothing to do with morale (which is calculated with losses-honour only)
+Attacker's personal honour+unit's honour/2
-Defender's personal honour+unit's honour/2
+general's rank/2 - defender's general rank/2
+charge bonus (variable)
-defender's extra armour
etc... etc... etc...
As u can see the honour of the unit is counted in the morale because it directly affects the way unit fights and therefore takes losses.
Now let's compare an archer unit with honour 3 and an ashi muskets with the same honour 3.
sa 420 koku mu 245 koku.
Since the mu have same range as archers (bull), plus they shoot through friends and intervening terrain (big bull), their disadvantage in h-h is totally useless. They frankly even up the disadvantage with weather, for this same disadvantage is one for the attacker most (units tire quickly and archers' range is reduced) and regards defnder only for his gun units.
As u can see, with the same cost of highly trained SAMURAI archers, ur enemy can get the same training ashigaru but almost TWICE the number of men! And this honour will grant that ashi a superior morale in battle. Those musks will be fresh when ur men arrive there and YOU will rout even if u have higher honour.
An archer unit of 3 will rout when samurais rout. A musk will not rout for in battles with 6000 and more koku available, the player will CERTAINLY take a musk with 4 or higher honour (actually more than one musk) and make sure that his musks don't rout at seeing samurais routing, in fact, i have often seen my enemy routing and his general killed passing THROUGH the muskets and those muskets KEPT ON FIRING at me.
U can easily understand that an ashi with a superior honour will not rout when faced by peril even if samurais ahead are routing.
The way to correct this (but mind that range of missiles should be corrected as well) is to increase the exponential cost of the honour for units.
We must tweak the units...find these values and correct them. The cost for rising honour which should be higher for ashigaru since they are PEASANTS, the morale, the range especially.
I would also like to remind the fact that guns COST A LOT while ashigaru cost very little...equipping a teppo with 100 guns can NOT be possible with 245 koku because they should cost much more.
An archer has a bow and training, plus is samurai (morale) they cost normally. The musk has to be an ashi and so cost little (and with little morale) but the guns to equip him and ammo and powder DO COST A LOT MORE THAN ARROWS AND BOWS!
This is it...i hope everybody understands now WHY they loose in battle when it doesn't rain
The general's honour is highly important in battle. Why not choosing to make general an ashigaru musks with 6 ? it will cost relatively few and ALL the troops under his command will have a bonus granted
I frankly hope u all understand that the comparison of unit costs and the relationship honour/morale is the straw unbalancing the game UNFAIRLY towards guns.
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