Questions regarding health and model counts

[mvffinsandmilk]

1) What does it take to kill each model in a unit in this game?
2) if a unit is very low in health but almost full model count do they fight at almost full strength?
3) does health or model count matter more with regard to balance of power?

In many of my playthroughs I keep running into a dilemnas where I get the enemy units very low in health but they still remain high in model count. Sometimes the unit as a whole will have less than 5% health but more than 70% of the models remain. I'm wondering if I should be less concerned about lowering the health of a unit and more about the number of models in each unit.

[DaBa]

1) The health of a single model is easily calculated, you just divide the total health pool by the number of models and you know how much a single model has. A model is killed when it gets dealt that amount of damage.

2) Yes, the amount of health does not influence battle performance (except leadership), the model count is what matters.

3) Pretty sure health counts for balance of power, for example if you have a bunch of low health units and you heal them, the balance of power shifts in your favor. Might only count in case of single entities, but I never tested it. Shouldn't matter that much though, if your unit has a lot of models and has low health, it's almost always the case it lost a bunch of models too.

In general I would advise to try and kill off low health units. As said above, even a low health unit is at full combat power, so if you brought down a squad of infantry really low on health, but they still have a lot of models surviving, they are still going to fight strong (provided they didn't rout). And since their health is low, a lot of their models should be low health too and easy to kill, so in summary making sure low health units die or rout from the battlefield is in your best interest anyway, regardless of how the balance of power calculates it.

[Elitewrecker PT]

1) To deal the damage to a model equal to its model HP.
2) Since they're all alive, the unit is fighting at full power - except a small amount of damage will start killing models.

[Aleera]

1) Total unit hp divided by model count. P/E Empire Spearmen have 8280 hp in total, with 120 models = 69 hp per model. Greatswords have 9120 with 120 models, ergo 76 hp per model.

2) Damage does not make a unit fight worse, unless it's a single entity, which will gain the wounds debuff.

3) Yes it does. Unit's that are healing, via magic or regeneration effects, will effect the balance of power. This also include unit's that regain ammunation. Because for the balance of power, ammunation = hp for ranged units.

Mind you, there's the effect of fatigue wich does lower overal combat effectiveness.