motivation and luck

[muzzybelly]

Does anyone know what these factors affect?

[Stabbey]

Motivation affects your entrenchment level when defending. If your population is demotivated, you'll get less than the standard bonus of entrenchment when battles happen there.

Luck affects chance to win in auto-resolve. Not usually by enough to worry about.

[muzzybelly]

thanks

[Apocalypse]

Originally posted by Stabbey:

Luck affects chance to win in auto-resolve. Not usually by enough to worry about.

Luck is huge, and the bigger the battles are the bigger the luck factor becomes. With a decent amount of luck you will lose less unites on auto-resolve, compensate if you are unpopulat, etc

At the other hand: Try to win a battle on undead land once the undead and the seven start to hate you and you got about -50% chance to win because of luck and popularity! A few percent here and there is not that important, but it really can add up.

[Scynix]

Luck is easily counteracted with sheer numbers. I don't care if the seven ARE on your side, I've got five devastators and an armor division that would like to have a few words with you.

[Apocalypse]

And still that single transport will kills all of your devastators because you have pissed off the undead and the seven and you are fighting on undead land ;-)

Luck is a modificator for auto-resolves. The size of your forces, unit composition and generals will change you chances to win a battle. Luck will afterwards increase or reduce your chances as a plain modificator. In other words if your 5 devastors and your armor division attacks a lonely trooper you have about 98% chance of winning. And than this chance can get a -24% lcuk hit and a -18% populatiry hit and you end up with a roughtly 50% while your enemy still has only 2%. I can assure you that the loses on your side will be huge on auto-resolve in such battles.

You still win easly if you fight yourself.