Night battle and missile accuracy, once and for all.
I know FactionHeir is going to yell SEARCH, but after doing a bit of research,
I found out that
a) There is no concurrent agreement whether night battle affects missiles or not,
b) Nobody has any evidence other than ad-hoc assumptions regarding shogun and BI.
Has there been any conclusive research done on this, and I mean with either CA response or actual study done on it. A simple "they do" won't solve the problem imo.
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Re: Night battle and missile accuracy, once and for all.
I just did a simple test, fighting 4 day and 4 night battles. HRE pavise xbow vs English peasants, without any upgrades. All battles had the same conditions, grassy plain, VH difficulty, dry weather. In each battle the xbows fired three volleys to the approaching peasants.
The results:
DAY: 32 27 28 33 - Average:30
NIGHT: 35 30 29 24 - Average:29.5
edit: I forgot to mention that those are the numbers of soldiers killed in each battle
Last edited by DVX BELLORVM; 12-04-2007 at 17:01.
Re: Night battle and missile accuracy, once and for all.
Those are within confidence bounds, so no difference, although you could argue the sample size is a bit small.
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Re: Night battle and missile accuracy, once and for all.
That's somewhat disappointing, I wonder if it would be possible to mod it so that missile accuracy COULD be reduced during night battles.
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Re: Night battle and missile accuracy, once and for all.
From BI I always assumed that it was the missile units lead by a general with the nightfighter trait that got improved accuracy.
Re: Night battle and missile accuracy, once and for all.
Interesting test, DVX BELLORVM. I'm convinced (if disappointed). Sometimes I would not attack at night for fear of nerfing my missiles (or attack to neft the enemy). I won't worry about that any more.
This one's going in the FAQ.
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