So calculating this metric for all MaA regiments allows us to rank their fighting power and combining it with recruitment costs and maintenance values allows us to also see how much bang you get for your buck! MaA Balance Where this value is higher for one unit than another, we'd expect it to win in a direct fight. Using this information (ignoring all those additional modifiers), we can determine how well each MaA unit will do against another, which is super useful when it comes to assessing balance! In fact, we can even get mathematical about it and derive a metric for a MaA's combat effectiveness before modifiers (for the basic algebra behind it, see here). if an army has 800 levies and 200 men at arms, 80% of the damage will go to the levies and 20% will go to the men at arms). Furthermore, when the total damage in any combat round is calculated, it is spread out to the different regiments in the army based on its proportion of the overall Strength of the army (e.g. Strength is a measure of how many individual units are in a regiment, Toughness measures how much damage it takes to kill one of those units, and Damage dictates how much damage each soldier in that regiment can do.

Of these, there are three main unit stats that determine which side will win in any battle: Strength, Damage and Toughness. When you sweep aside all the different combat modifiers you can get from buildings, terrain, commanders, advantage (etc etc), you're left with the main MaA stats that are listed on the unit's outline. From that research, I've found the following: Up to this point, our designs have largely been used vanilla units as a guide before tweaking as we saw fit to create LotR themed regiments.

With more and more MaAs being added over time, I thought it'd be worth sitting down and researching exactly how combat works in CK3 to allow us to better design our units. I was hoping to be able to give you a deep dive of the history and set up of one of the new areas in the South this week, but a teething baby has limited the amount of work I've been able to do on that and will have to leave it for next weekend's Dev Diary! So rather than showing something half-baked, I thought I'd share my investigations into exactly how combat in CK3 works, its implications for balancing our Men at Arms regiments in the mod and a sneak peak at some of the awesome new MaA illustrations we'll be adding in v2.2. Hey guys, it's me again with another Dev Diary. I love only that which they defend.” - Faramir, The Two Towers “I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory.

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