Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-24227668-20131129010309/@comment-11490363-20131129180602

Terminalvertex wrote:

soldier row with sigs:

jazz: 191,955 / 208,272 / 13,696

ih evo3: 237,159 / 266,302 / 8958

in this campaign to H10 waves (approx dmg, diff for each wave tho):

deals per attack: jazz 21k - ih ev3 26k dmg

receives: jazz 25k - ih ev3 31k dmg

so at best, evo3 survives one extra hit and does an extra 70k damage. Extremely poor for a T2 reward compared to the ease of getting Jazz and the effort needed to T2. I don't have getaway but I know he's stronger, he may even out damage ih3. I'm very confident hoist will be better. My math:

Jazz survives 9 hits (9 * 25K - 208K < 25K). IH3 survives 8 hits (8 * 31K - 266K < 31K). Less than Jazz in fact.

Assuming the boss always hits that trio first, 9 times, the total damage for each would be:

Jazz: 9 * 192 = 1.738M

IH3 = 8 * 237K = 1.896M

Difference of 158K. That is the minimum damage that IH3 does MORE than Jazz.

For every turn that they are both still alive above and beyond 7 each (Boss switches to other trios), IH3 gains an additional 45K.

After 8 hits, Jazz can catch up, by 192K per turn till it takes its 9th hit. So the only time Jazz outperforms IH3 is if there is a large gap between when IH3 would die and when Jazz would die, depending on how much damage IH3 is in the lead by at that point. This happens relatively infrequently.

I could calculate the proper expected value if you want, but I think overall IH3 still comes out ahead. It also depends on what other bots are in the formation, and the strength of the boss. But even across different formations and bosses, I think IH3 would likely come out ahead on most of them.