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the thing that concerns me most is not cheating, but imperfect algorythims, anyway.

But yeah, it is a game... or is it ?

No, it doesn't. It means you have a 70% change to hit on each attack. Yes, it does mean that, but only on average, over a large number of attempts. You want odds? Here they are: 3 attacks, 30% hit chance: 0 hits: 0.343 1 hit: 0.441 2 hits: 0.189 3 hits: 0.027 so, getting all three hits should be ab...

yes, but 70% chance to hit and 3 attacks means you will miss 1 and connect the other 2.

even slightly more than that.

And 70% cover means you will be hit 1/3rd of the time.

albeit we see differently.

I am at work, when I am at home, I will play some random games, and save replays.

Yep, but anyway, I tend to play adding 15% in my mind to the AI, and subtracting 15% from my chances.

This usually make things work somewhat as they should.

so, whenever I see 70% defense, I read: Player: 55% defense, AI 85% defense.

Well, I have seen things go bad every time for my units as well, so much that I had to stop playing out of frustration last night. 3 footpads, at night, in the forest, making him 70% protected and with good chance to hit, against an elf, in clear terrain. I managed to connect, from the 9 footpad att...