Losses in combat manpower wise?

[pvthudson01]

I really still do not understand the battle results page

Exactly how can I tell HOW MANY men were lost?

All I see are some symbols and a listing of casualties for ranged and assault listed in the form of unit symbols, but how do I tell how bad the defeat was? Or are casualty numbers withheld for some reason?


Yes, I just got this game even though the year is 2009

[Hobbes]

Hi Hud, best to do an advanced search through the old BoA posts as not many people look at BoA any more (or remember the details).

This might help :-

http://www.ageod-forum.com/showthread.php?t=747&highlight=heart

Cheers, Chris

[arsan]

Hi!
On BOA1 the losses are somewhat abstracted in "Hits".
On the newer games (AACW, NCP, WIA) actual numbers of men/guns and horses losses were introduced.
To understand how bad your losses were, take a look at the unit detail panel.
There, clicking on each sub element you will see how many hits it haves (IIRC about 8-10 per standard infantry element). So... if a unit (regiment) has 4 elements, it has around 40 hits.

A 10 regiment stack (400 hits) that losses 200 hit in battle has suffered a 50% casualties

Regarding men, well, you can do the maths... if let say a regiment has 1000 men, each hit represent... 50 or so.

If you buy WIA, you will have all this maths done for you by the game

[pvthudson01]

Yup yup thanks a ton for all the help! I actually do in fact now have WIA and am playing that, great game. I may have other questions I will post in that forum thanks all