SpielByWeb

Sid Hawkins · Joined: 30 May 06 Posts: 1 Location: Leicester, UK

I've just completed (and lost heavily!) my first Spielbyweb game of Wallenstein - and I am very impressed by its ease of use. I'm interested in what algorithm used for the dice tower. I suspect I may simply have been the victim of bad luck (as well as poor play!) but the battle results I suffered were quite different from my experience in face-to-face Wallenstein. The highlight being my 8 defending armies losing a revolt against 2 revolting farmers!!

Any comments/info?

Thanks

Golux13 · Joined: 14 Jul 05 Posts: 209

Unless Milksheikh has changed the algorithms, the way the tower works is as follows:

1. An army going into the tower has a 30% chance of getting stuck.
2. An army previously stuck in the tower has a 30% chance of being dislodged during any battle.

So to figure your odds in a battle, count each combatant's army going IN (including any in the cup) as 0.7 armies, and any that you know or can figure out are already in the tower as 0.3 armies.

Of course, as you learned, probabilities are funny things.

cpsof95 · Joined: 31 Mar 06 Posts: 177 Location: Finland

Sorry for bumping an old thread, but I guess recycling is recommended to stop the global warming...

Anyway, here's my newbie question:
- we know the total number of armies in the game
- we know the number of armies each player has in the supply
- we know the number of armies each player has on the board

We can easily figure out the number of armies each player has in the tower, so why isn't this number shown anywhere?

What's the deal with the farmer armies? In board-game version you can see how many farmers come to the cup in the initial seeding. Why is this information hidden in SBW version?