Attrition Details

[clan ghost bear]

Eeyup...

[Froggy618157725]

Are you saying that the rule for attrition is that you see who wins the overall roll, and then sort the dice, subtracting one unit for each die in the ordering which is higher than the corresponding dice of the winner?
So, a 2 can never take an 8 down further than a 2 unless it wins?
For instance:
2 attacking 8
6,6 vs 3,3,1,1,1,1,1,1

would result in the 2 losing, and the 8 would be reduced to a 6? Or is it more complicated than that? I don't want to take all this time if it really is just risk-like there.

[Joshua]

Are you saying that the rule for attrition is that you see who wins the overall roll, and then sort the dice, subtracting one unit for each die in the ordering which is higher than the corresponding dice of the winner?
So, a 2 can never take an 8 down further than a 2 unless it wins?
For instance:
2 attacking 8
6,6 vs 3,3,1,1,1,1,1,1

would result in the 2 losing, and the 8 would be reduced to a 6? Or is it more complicated than that? I don't want to take all this time if it really is just risk-like there.

I think it means that you take the amount of dice from the defender, and pair each one up against the attacker's dice, but you only take the highest.

For example,
2 attacking an 8,
6,6 vs 3,3,1,1,1,1,1,1,
The 6s and the 3s would be paired up, since they are the highest from each side,
6,6 vs 3,3,
2 wins by 3 on each dice,
and then since 1 has to be left behind, you'd have 1 left over.

If the 2 were to lose, then you'd take however many dice it lost by off of it's total, and however many dice it had that were paired up with a defending dice that had a lower roll than it did, and take that off the the 8's total.

[Froggy618157725]

I'm pretty sure that losing an attack always leaves the attacker with 1, in all of the game modes.

[necrocat219]

Another thing to note in attrition of how it works; the attrition aspect is calculated before the attack increase/decreases are, so that 5% attack increase doesn't affect how many men the attacker and defender lose (with exception of attacker winning when the wouldn't have, then the number of the defender always drops to 0) same applies for the 5% defense increase, except the attacker always drops to 1 when they lose no matter what.