Warrior Ancient and Medieval Rules

[Frank Gilson]

I took a look at the NICT from last year, and how many scouting
points each of the 30 lists had. This serves as a decent guide for
us to analyze how many scouting points people typically have.

The fewest number of scouting points any army ran was 3. Yup, 3
points. The max was 111. The average amount was about 45.5, while
the median (the value above and below which half the data fell) was
48.

So, if you wanted to outscout half the 2003 NICT participants, you
would have needed 144 scouting points...which no one actually ran,
and which is hard to amass.

If you wanted to never be outscouted at that NICT, then you only
needed 37.5 scouting points...easily achievable.

Outscouting 80% of the NICT population would have required a truly
massive amount of points, as the top of the 80% bracket had 58
scouting points you would have had to have 174!

So, actually outscouting most opponents in a tournament is very
hard, and the kind of army it forces you to run is limited...being
mostly light cavalry.

You can, however, use this information as a guide to avoid being
outscouted...or at least to have "more" scouting points than your
opponent, which allows you to place your troops after they do.

To simply have had more points than 80% of the 2003 NICT would have
meant you needed just 59...that usually requires upwards of 36
figures of light cavalry, but that's not difficult on many lists.

Frank Gilson

Hehe Mark

About our average 32-45 scouting points each :)

Mike



--- In WarriorRules@yahoogroups.com, "FrankGilson"
<franktrevorgilson@h...> wrote:
> I took a look at the NICT from last year, and how many scouting
> points each of the 30 lists had. This serves as a decent guide for
> us to analyze how many scouting points people typically have.
>
> The fewest number of scouting points any army ran was 3. Yup, 3
> points. The max was 111. The average amount was about 45.5, while
> the median (the value above and below which half the data fell) was
> 48.
>
> So, if you wanted to outscout half the 2003 NICT participants, you
> would have needed 144 scouting points...which no one actually ran,
> and which is hard to amass.
>
> If you wanted to never be outscouted at that NICT, then you only
> needed 37.5 scouting points...easily achievable.
>
> Outscouting 80% of the NICT population would have required a truly
> massive amount of points, as the top of the 80% bracket had 58
> scouting points you would have had to have 174!
>
> So, actually outscouting most opponents in a tournament is very
> hard, and the kind of army it forces you to run is limited...being
> mostly light cavalry.
>
> You can, however, use this information as a guide to avoid being
> outscouted...or at least to have "more" scouting points than your
> opponent, which allows you to place your troops after they do.
>
> To simply have had more points than 80% of the 2003 NICT would have
> meant you needed just 59...that usually requires upwards of 36
> figures of light cavalry, but that's not difficult on many lists.
>
> Frank Gilson

[Mark Mallard]

In a message dated 2/25/04 8:14:01 AM GMT Standard Time,
franktrevorgilson@... writes:


I noticed for the first time recently that by fielding one general and having
less scouting points than my opponent is very much like being outscouted..
>
> I took a look at the NICT from last year, and how many scouting
> points each of the 30 lists had. This serves as a decent guide for
> us to analyze how many scouting points people typically have.
>
> The fewest number of scouting points any army ran was 3. Yup, 3
> points. The max was 111. The average amount was about 45.5, while
> the median (the value above and below which half the data fell) was
> 48.
>
> So, if you wanted to outscout half the 2003 NICT participants, you
> would have needed 144 scouting points...which no one actually ran,
> and which is hard to amass.
>
> If you wanted to never be outscouted at that NICT, then you only
> needed 37.5 scouting points...easily achievable.
>
> Outscouting 80% of the NICT population would have required a truly
> massive amount of points, as the top of the 80% bracket had 58
> scouting points you would have had to have 174!
>
> So, actually outscouting most opponents in a tournament is very
> hard, and the kind of army it forces you to run is limited...being
> mostly light cavalry.
>
> You can, however, use this information as a guide to avoid being
> outscouted...or at least to have "more" scouting points than your
> opponent, which allows you to place your troops after they do.
>
> To simply have had more points than 80% of the 2003 NICT would have
> meant you needed just 59...that usually requires upwards of 36
> figures of light cavalry, but that's not difficult on many lists.
>
> Frank Gilson
>
>
>
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