How exactly do battle odds for triggers work?

[SSJVegetaTrunks]

When you are making a trigger to trigger a battle trait and are making the battle odds neccasary to get it, how does it work? Is it out of 2? is 0.5/2 mean that your chances must be 1 : 4 of winning? How does it work?

[Myrddraal]

I'm afraid I've no idea. What are the figures for existing triggers of that type?

[Atilius]

BattleOdds is a ratio of the total combat strengths of the 2 armies. A ratio of 5:4 indicates that your army is 25% stronger than your opponent's. In spite of the name, it cannot be directly related to the odds of winning a battle, though the correlation should be clear. One reason why this is so is that BattleOdds does not take into account the opposing generals' battle stars. It also can't account for terrain effects. Here (https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=41122) is a link to a meandering discussion on the subject, including a post from CA's JeromeGrasdyke.

[SSJVegetaTrunks]

I don't think you understand what I mean... I know how it works in the game, but I'm wondering how the conditions for triggers that you get after battle work compared to pre-battle chances. In the traits file, an example of conditions for battle odds is like this:


;------------------------------------------
Trigger V0090_Standard_Battle_Any_Victory_VnV_Trigger
WhenToTest PostBattle

Condition IsGeneral
and WonBattle
and BattleOdds < 1.6

Affects GoodCommander 1 Chance 100

Or


;------------------------------------------
Trigger V0095_Standard_Battle_Clear_Victory_VnV_Trigger
WhenToTest PostBattle

Condition IsGeneral
and WonBattle
and BattleOdds >= 1.6
and BattleOdds < 2.1
and BattleSuccess >= clear

Affects GoodCommander 1 Chance 100

Here is one for bad commander:


;------------------------------------------
Trigger V0100_Standard_Battle_Any_Loss_VnV_Trigger
WhenToTest PostBattle

Condition IsGeneral
and not WonBattle
and BattleOdds > 1.5

Affects BadCommander 1 Chance 50

How does it compare to pre-battle odds in the game? Does BattleOdds > 1.5 mean that in order for it to happen, there has to be at least a 3 : 2 chance of your victory?

[Atilius]

How does it compare to pre-battle odds in the game? Does BattleOdds > 1.5 mean that in order for it to happen, there has to be at least a 3 : 2 chance of your victory?

Yes

[SSJVegetaTrunks]

Thank you! That helps a lot!