what does battle size do?

[Stogie]

Mine is set to 75. Does that mean the higher i put it the bigger the battles are? If i have it set at 75 does that mean I can only have 75 troops?

[rayuh]

Originally posted by Crippled Mafia:

If i have it set at 75 does that mean I can only have 75 troops?

Basicly. If you have 150 troops, and you enter a battle with the battle size 75. Only 75 of your troops will join. Along with the enemy's though. So if most of your 75 troops die, another wave of your soldiers come in to replace them. Until, ofcourse, you run out of troops.

[Fire and Glory]

The tactics skill allows you to bring more troops while the AI get's less.

I think,the AI might not get less,I don't know.

[kaiyl_kariashi]

Incorrect. Battle size determines the maximum number of troops that can be in a battle period.

If it's set to 75, and you have 100 troops, and your enemy has 300 troops, you'll only get 25 troops while he'll get 50. Base. Tactics skill can push this a little more in your favor, but it's pretty minor over all. As spots open up, you'll get periodic re-enforcements. Your tactics skill also affects how many re-enforcement periods you get. Very large battles will be broken up into phases, but a high tactics can allow you to fight more per phase by getting more re-enforcements. That's why you'll occassionally even when being wiped out or wiping out the enemy, there'll be more battles phases before you're really finished.

It's literally nothing more then a compatibility option for weaker systems to allow it to simulate the effects of huge armies (with the larger armies getting more troops within the limit perportional to the combat advantage they have). There are actually mods that can boost it up into the thousands, to allow multiple armies to field their full forces at once, but pushes the 32-bit engine the game runs on to it's limits.

[Stogie]

Originally posted by kaiyl_kariashi:

Incorrect. Battle size determines the maximum number of troops that can be in a battle period.

If it's set to 75, and you have 100 troops, and your enemy has 300 troops, you'll only get 25 troops while he'll get 50. Base. Tactics skill can push this a little more in your favor, but it's pretty minor over all.

It's literally nothing more then a compatibility option for weaker systems to allow it to simulate the effects of huge armies (with the larger armies getting more troops within the limit perportional to the combat advantage they have). There are actually mods that can boost it up into the thousands, to allow multiple armies to field their full forces at once, but pushes the 32-bit engine the game runs on to it's limits.

then why does the difficulty percentage go up when I put it higher?

[Fire and Glory]

Originally posted by Crippled Mafia:

Originally posted by kaiyl_kariashi:

Incorrect. Battle size determines the maximum number of troops that can be in a battle period.

If it's set to 75, and you have 100 troops, and your enemy has 300 troops, you'll only get 25 troops while he'll get 50. Base. Tactics skill can push this a little more in your favor, but it's pretty minor over all.

It's literally nothing more then a compatibility option for weaker systems to allow it to simulate the effects of huge armies (with the larger armies getting more troops within the limit perportional to the combat advantage they have). There are actually mods that can boost it up into the thousands, to allow multiple armies to field their full forces at once, but pushes the 32-bit engine the game runs on to it's limits.

then why does the difficulty percentage go up when I put it higher?

Because the more troops that are on the battle,the more the game veers away from the player cutting down all the troops and needing tactics and troop numbers and stuff.

[kaiyl_kariashi]

Yeah, it's less noticable if you're playing with the handicap since allowing you to use more troops generally makes the battles easier when your nearly unstoppable elite units can run amuck. But at 100%, their survivability decreases SHARPLY when outnumbered, since the default handicap of 50% reduced damage to player troops is taken into account before armor mitigation, which makes heavy armored troops MUCH more effective they're supposed to be.

[Stogie]

ill just leave it at 75 for now and change it as i go on.

[poleece]

With battle size changer mod, you can set the limit to your wish, like say 500 or 600 and you'll get epic battles as long as you pc can handle it.

[kaiyl_kariashi]

OH, and party order matters A LOT more When you have more troops then can be squeezed into the battle. And can actually be helpful, by pushing your medic and support characters completely out of the battle queue by putting them at the bottom of the party.

[Stogie]

Originally posted by kaiyl_kariashi:

OH, and party order matters A LOT more When you have more troops then can be squeezed into the battle. And can actually be helpful, by pushing your medic and support characters completely out of the battle queue by putting them at the bottom of the party.

So the lower the troops are in my party menu they won't be put into battle if there i surpass the amount of troop on a battle?

[ElDuderino]

Wtf you guys talking about? I've never seen any option to change battle size!

[veryinky]

Originally posted by ElDuderino:

Wtf you guys talking about? I've never seen any option to change battle size!

Main Menu when the game starts, Options, "Battle Size" slider in the "General Options" tab.

[Chmerity]

Originally posted by Crippled Mafia:

Originally posted by kaiyl_kariashi:

OH, and party order matters A LOT more When you have more troops then can be squeezed into the battle. And can actually be helpful, by pushing your medic and support characters completely out of the battle queue by putting them at the bottom of the party.

So the lower the troops are in my party menu they won't be put into battle if there i surpass the amount of troop on a battle?

Correct, it starts from the top and loads troops for you in that order until you've filled your alloted troop count. Hence why your character is at the top and why it's a good idea to keep your stronger units up top.

[Generic_Internetter]

A whole decade later, I thank you for explaining this!