Pillage

2008-12-26T04:25:19Z

Shzar:

= General =
A pillage is sending one stack of your army, to raid another kingdom for [[population]],[[geld]] and [[items]] and burn some land including buildings (make it [[wilderness]])

In a [[pillage]] attack, you send one stack of your [[units]] into another kingdom.
* If unsuccessful,
** the pillager is warded off and loses a significant number (if not all) of the sent stack. The remaining numbers flee like thieves in the night, back to your kingdom.
*** This way, pillaging is a way to 'disband' [[:Category:Undisbandable|undisbandable units]].
** A pillage is blocked when the raiding army is spotted. The more units you have (relative to your land), the better the chance you spot invading armies and block.
*** The odds to ward off pillagers depends foremost on the number of units within the defensive army, not on the power.
*** The odds to ward off pillagers also depend on protection by [[Forts]] (if you maintain enough, your warding army will pay maximum attention)

* If successful,
** The pillager takes home some [[geld]], [[population]] (in variable amounts depending on the interior of the targeted kingdom and the size of the raiding party) and possibly one [[items|item]].
** The pillager burns some of the [[Farms]], [[Towns]], [[Workshops]] and [[Guilds]] on the pillages land to [[wilderness]], but the pillager does not take or destoys [[land]] (unlike [[siege]] and [[regular]] attacks).
** The amount of goods that pillaging units can carry depends on their stack power, not on their numbers.
** The pillager can only bring home booties of mages within 50% of your [[net power]] before the [[pillage]] (otherwise the distance is too large and your troops lose their stuff on the way).
** If your pillage makes that the victim had 10% land burned in the last 24 hours, the victim enters [[Pillage Protection]].
** If the victim has neither [[Farms]],[[Towns]], [[Workshops]] nor [[Guilds]], then no buildings will be burned. Such mages will not enter [[Pillage Protection]].

* A pillage takes 2 [[turns]]
* A pillage can be blocked by [[Hallucination]] - the attacker loses 2 [[turns]] + [[war expense]]

* [[Epidemics]] can be transferred from attacker to defender and from defender to attacker in [[pillage]]s.
* [[Enchantments]] can be dispelled by [[Pillage]]s, no matter if you win or not.

[[Category:Attack types]]

= Pillaging Formulas =

Edited, starting from [[War Formulas from the Ronin Assassins]] page

== Taking an item ==
* You steal one [[items|item]] in a pillage, when you send sufficiently powerfull troops
** (and the party is not discovered)
** (and the victim has stealable items)

* minimum number of troops to steal an item = 50 * (target's land) / (power rank of unit used)
* [[Unique Items]] cannot be taken just as [[items|lesser items]]
* [[Magical Compass]] and [[Minor Indulgence]] cannot be taken in a pillage. <- EDIT, now there is 25% chance to pilage it

== Resources taken through Pillage ==
You are more vulnurable to losing stuff on pillages, when you have a relative small number of [[farms]] and [[towns]]

* % [[Population]] captured = (1/6) * % of [[farms]] burned
* % [[Population]] killed = (1/3) * % of [[farms]] burned
* % [[Geld]] stolen = (1/5) * % of [[towns]] burned

== Buildings destroyed through Pillage ==
The maximum number of buildings that can be destroyed in a single pillage is 100.

* Number of Farms burned = round_down(X * 60)
* Number of Towns burned = round_down(X * 25)
* Number of Workshops burned = round_down(X * 10)
* Number of Guilds burned = round_down(X * 5)
with
* X = proportion of max. buildings that you can destroy in one pillage
* X = .005 * NP of troops sent / target's land
** i.e. the max number of [[farms]] you can destroy in a pillage is 60, [[towns]] 25, etc.

For maximum effect (full pillage), the maximum value for X is 1,
* this is reached when you select a stack from your for which
** pillage stack [[net power]] = 200 * target's land
* If you desire to only burn a portion of a full pillage, scale down the stack NP accordingly.

[[nodes]], [[barriers]], [[forts]], [[barracks]], [[wilderness]] are not visited in pillages (logically... that is where your army lives and where no people, geld and items live, and [[mana|m.p.]] cannot be stolen...]]

== Pillage Blocking ==

(incomplete information)
* forts above 1% is good
* xxxx units (doesn't matter how strong) / acre is good
** in combination this gives almost 100% pillage warding

== Pillage Protection ==

After a mage has had 10% of their acres razed by pillages he or she enters pillage protection.
* This is indicated by the "--" symbol in the ranklist (since Sept. 2006)
* It lasts as long as within the last 24 hours, over 10% of your acres was pillaged.

See [[Pillage Protection]].

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