[QUOTE=khelvan]...the hastati do not have "FIVE TIME" better protection. Have you actually done tests with these units? If the hastati had five times better protection, five times more Clyddabre would die during fights.

Fair enough, QM. But this is the point I'm addressing by running the test.

Khelvan seems to think that I'm "looking at this all wrong" - but I'm not. He doubts that the Clyddabre would suffer five times the casualties that Hastati would suffer - when in fact they do (far more than that actually, since there is no direct corrolation between having 5x protection and suffereing 5x less casualties as Khelvan proposed).

The hastati suffered less than 10% casualties, while the Clyddabre suffered over 90% (it would easily have been 100% had I chosen to pursue them).

That is a striking disparity since the only real difference between these units is that Hastati have a helmet and a 10" metal protector on their chests, don't you think?