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Military - Hyksos Chariots
I posted the following at the
Pharaoh Heaven Forum:
I sent out three full-strength, academy trained companies (2 chariots,
1 infantry) to do battle with, perhaps three Hyksos chariots and maybe
a water boy.
My force was not defeated - it was destroyed - to the last man. At
normal level I can, after a struggle, win.
Who are these guys???
Grumpus
Nixon @Impressions was kind enough to reply:
Chariots are the toughest of all troop types and the
Hyksos are the toughest of all of the enemy armies. Put together, they
are very formidable. Increasing the difficulty with make then tougher
still. But it is possible to defeat Hyksos Chariots on Hard and even
Very Hard.
Balshazaar's advice on changing the figure model was
in response to Dragon2 asking: I'd like to know whether the Hyksos are
also unbeatable in New Kingdom levels with difficulty greater than normal.
If so is there a change to figure_model_hard.txt that Impressions would
recommend for fixing the problem?
When I saw people having this problem I tested it on
a map using the Very Hard difficulty setting. Now, admittedly, I played
this just to test this one particular question. I had six legions of
Chariots, all of which were experienced and had high morale. Plus, I
spent a lot of my time trying to get on Seth's good side (with a good
amount of success). When a group of Hyksos chariots attacked my city,
all six of my Chariots swarmed on them and Seth bestowed one of his
gifts (killing an attacking army). Most of my troops died but I did
win the battle.
Remember, this is on Very Hard. Now, like I said, all
of this was done just to test this one issue. Things might have been
different if I had been concentrating on other goals. In the midst of
a campaign with other things going on and conditions not being optimal
I'm not sure if I could have pulled it off. But I wanted to make sure
that is was possible for it to happen at all and not a bug.
Not being involved in the setting of the hit points
and other stats, I can't say what was determined in their creation.
My previous advice was to lower the difficulty setting temporarily whenever
you ran across something that seemed to overwhelm you; that's part of
the reason that we allow you to set the difficulty level at any point
and not just the beginning of the game. But some people didn't seem
to like this advice so Balshazaar explained what to do in the figure
model, allowing for people to remain on the harder setting and still
win the battles.
So in short, yes it is possible to defeat Hyksos Chariots
on the harder difficulty settings but it is very, very difficult to
do so.
Nixon Impressions
The original thread with all replies can be found
here.
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