Grand Arson and Arson

[Avispa]

Has anyone tried these out yet?

If so, Id appreciate knowing the kind of gains/op and whether the formulae for no of thieves to send / building remains the same.

[Bukharistan]

Will do so soon enough :)

[Palem]

GA has been used to great effect in our war

[skoyl12]

Great effect means nothing. If you want to help give thieves sent and buildings burnt.

[Palem]

I have none of that data. I do have a good, active TM telling he all his towers have been burned down.

[skoyl12]

Guess we'll have to wait Persain then to go to war and give numbers :)

[Persain]

Guess we'll have to wait Persain then to go to war and give numbers :)

at war, wont be using GA till mid age. the fact that "all" your towers can be destroyed though suggests that its a flat # of builds/theif instead of % buildings like it used to bed.

[munk]

I got the numbers, ask me on utonet (nick:munk)

[Andurilas]

Got 11 homes with about 2k thieves several times in a row. I'm on 460ish acres, target was similar.

[claritinclear]

So far I have done a few Greater Arsons. I went by the numbers in the wiki.

They had 97 acres of training grounds to start. According to wiki you can burn max 6% at a rate of .0045 buildings per soldier so to burn max I would send (97*.06)/.0045 = 1293 thieves to get max burned (5.82 buildings). When I did this I got exactly what I expected - 5 buildings burned. Increased thieves to 2000 sent - still 5 buildings burned. Send 500 -> 2 buildings burned. So I would say go by the wiki numbers would be a pretty good way to figure out how much to send.

I also targeted someone who had 41 of some building X to start with. 6% of 41 is 2.46 and no matter what I sent I only burned 2 buildings at a time , once it got under 30 acres I was only burning 1 acre max at a time .

Right now most provinces are still pretty small so not too much data to work with but I will be using this again in our next war when we are bigger.

I assume with the formula in the wiki you should be slowly decreasing how much you send per op since the max gains are smaller after each op.

[Bukharistan]

But the wiki formula should be out-dated, as it was buffed...

[claritinclear]

Even if it changed, the changes to a number like .06 and .0045 might not really show up when I'm working with numbers this small. I just started off with using old formula cause I don't know where else to start but I plan on keeping track of the numbers again when I am working on bigger provinces later in the age