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It is by you're my only hope 10/17/2017, 1:00pm PDT
Entropy Stew wrote:

As in, you roll for however many units you have, then you subtract enemy units for every hit, enemy does the same, and you both do this until one side is wiped out. If that's how it works, your friend is correct, because you're mistakenly treating the rolls as independent events. The number of rolls you get in round n will be dependent on every roll from round 1 through round n-1, so the 10% advantage snowballs harder the longer a fight lasts.

-/ES/-


But why wouldn't the same idea of hits being less valuable as the numbers go up also hold true to the snowball aspect?

10 vs 10 and 100 vs 100. You roughly get one "bonus" hit with the 10 rolls, putting the next round at a 10:9 advantage. With 100 rolls you get 10 bonus hits, putting the next round at a 10:9 advantage.
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