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doofus-01 - lol. I just wish the RNG would make up its mind!

Has anyone ever actually tried to quantify how much better one unit is than another? I know that the relative strength will be very dependent on circumstances (like terrain and healing and special attacks etc, etc.), but how about the following simple question: all else being equal, how much better ...

Velensk, that's awesome. I was pretty surprised when I noticed this so I'm impressed you actually got to use it in a game. I really posted this for people who complain about how important luck is in the game just to illustrate that correct strategy is trickier (and more important) than you might thi...

"I challenge you to a duel!" Alice and Bob are each down to their last soldier in a Battle for Wesnoth. Alice is down to a fully healed Dwarvish Thunderer (1st level 34 hp). Bob has a slightly wounded Dwarvish Dragonguard (3rd level 36 out of 59 hp). "I challenge you to single combat,...

I'm new to these fora, and I didn't see anywhere to report a bug, so I stuck it here. If this isn't the right place, feel free to point me in the right direction. Anyway, I'm pretty sure line 21 of unit_advancements_aspect.hpp should be changed from #include "lua/lualib.h" to #include &quo...

iceice, I agree, a tool for evaluating luck would be roughly as hard to write as an ai, and much of the logic would be relevant to an ai. A little simpler because: You don't have to deal with recruit/recall logic. There is some luck in the traits generated on recruitment, but realistically that luck...

(first posted here http://forums.wesnoth.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=40372&p=570152&hilit=luck#p570152) So I understand that there's a steady stream of grumbling about losses due to bad luck in Wesnoth. Has anybody ever tried to write a tool for analysing how lucky each side actually was dur...

So I understand that there's a steady stream of grumbling about losses due to bad luck in Wesnoth. Has anybody ever tried to write a tool for analysing how lucky each side actually was during the course of the game? I know there's the simple information about actual vs. expected damage, but that is ...