Human Leets

[DDodge]

Offense specialist Offense Points * 0.8

guess it got changed :)

[Bishop]

Been like this for years ;)

[Ethan]

Why not just go all specs for defence??

Been away many an age so I don't really get how things work. Why is it worth paying double for the same defence? Sure flexibility is nice but why 100% elite for def instead of like 50/50

Because, last I knew, elites died slower to NS/prop. So pure elite defense means "free" thief resistance. The general assumption is that, OOW, you will find as much money as you need. (If you are short money - stop getting so big, you are bigger than your skill!)

That said, when money *is* short (oop, in war, etc.) there is such minor benefit you'd never bother with pure elite def. Also, if your kingdom kills dragons faster than 12 hours, you *must* have d-specs to do your share. You probably want some anyway, since using the elites on offense is worse than using the o-spec. (6@4.8 vs. 5@5, as noted elsewhere in the thread.) Elites are marginally more resistant to ambush, but either is plenty good enough such that you won't be ambushed anyway unless it is *required* since you are a deep chain target, thus you ideally want exactly 100% o-specs every hit. The reason to plan to use elites on offense is because each hit is a different size, and having the smaller ones leave significantly more defense is much more useful than having all of them leave a tiny bit more defense. Also so OOW you aren't being super aggressive and an easy hit - which works great as defense for a *kingdom* that is always ready to war... but not so great for an individual province.