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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Olgar Shiverstone" data-source="post: 467394" data-attributes="member: 5868">Over 100% casualties?A note on casualty figures:One casualty is one soldier killed, wounded, or missing.It is possible for a soldier to be wounded, treated, returned to duty, and wounded again, and thus count as two casualties.Casualty rates are calculated against unit base strength, not base strength plus reinforcements.  So a 600 man unit that takes 200 casualties in each of three battles, but through replacement is returned to full strength before each battles, has taken 100% casualties.Interestingly, because of learning rates in combat, it tends to be the newest soldiers that become casualties -- so for example in the example above, the unit could still have 50% of its original members despite having taken 100% casualties, since most of the subsequent casualties come from replacements.We now return to the discussion of Roman tactics, where I vote for:- Reach weapons,- Tower shields,- Siege Engines, - Illusionary units, and- Lots of readied dispel magics</blockquote>