As most of you know the publishers have never explained what constitutes a
Battle Event (the ax head symbol you see in the stats at the end of the
game). I've always assumed its when your forces are involved in a battle
where a certain number of units are lost in a small amount of time.
Normally its hard after a game is over to point to a battle event in the
stats and remember exactly what forces were involved and who lost what.
But
today I was playing on the Nomad map. That's where you start with 3
villagers, no scout and no town center. Well, 3 minutes in one of my
villagers, on his way to join his two mates (building a town center) ran
across a lone enemy villager. So I directed him to attack. The enemy
villager just stood there taking hits until he died. Then I found another
enemy villager of different color and did the same about a minute later.
This one fought back though. Yet he lost too (my guy had a slight
elevation
advantage). So, I just thought it weird that this qualified for a battle
event. Not much of a fight was it?
It did answer one question though. Let's say the battle event symbol
showed
up in my part of the graph. Did that mean I'd lost a certain amount of
troops, or that I'd killed a certain amount of troops? Well, now I know it
means if the symbol is in your part of the graph it means the latter.
Since
in my example above I took no losses.
I'm also speculating the "certain amount" of troops involved is a
percentage
of the overall amount of units on the map at that time. In my example (a 6
player game) there would have been 18 units (all villagers) on the map at
the time of my battle event. So I guess 1/18 or 1/17 of the total units on
the map getting snuffed is enough to trigger the symbol.
If this is true (I know, all conjecture on my part) then in a situation
where there are, say, 500 units on the map, it would take 27 of them dying
to trigger the symbol. That sounds a little high, but possible. Of course
we
still have no idea what the "in a certain amount of time" is.
-
Michael Ward
Fort Worth, Texas
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