LEVEL OF EFFICIENCY (REAL VALUE OF AN UNIT)

 I have been playing the game since N2. Cost of the units and comparision between troops in different armies has always been an issue on the forum subjects. Why is Moran so cheap ? Why do these two troops costing same although this troop has this ability etc.

First of all, we must be aware of one thing. Corvus Belli is creator of best minis and their first aim is to sell cool looking miniatures. Game Balance is something they care ofcourse, but neither they think the same with you sometimes nor they are not in hurry to evaluate it.

However i guess one idea is simply enough to evaluate a troop in the right way. Level of efficiency and Fruitfullness of combining abilities-stats.

Level of Efficiency

Level of efficiency is how much of the stats,skills,abilities whatever on the statblock is used each time we field the unit. For any unit, you can make the test yourself.

Lets check the situation with irmandinho chain rifle 8pts as an example.

Do you use PH? . Yes always. Because we need to smoke around with irmandinho. Do we use smokes ? Yes always. Do you use Wip ? Most of the time since he is a specialist. Do you use chainrifle ? Yes most of the time. Are you happy about he is being an impetious troop ? Yes, because i need that extra order to move and smoke around. (There can be times we would wish not to use though.)

Also check bad attributes too. BS10 . Am i using it alot ? No. almost never.

Fruitness of combining abilities and stats

Good PH and Smoke throwing. ph14 +3 in close range smoking allows irmandinho to move more easily. Good ph helps to smoke more often and win face to face rolls.

WIP and Specialist . He can push to buttons with not bad wip value of 13. He is an engineer and he can help other units too.

Now lets combine these 2 datas. He can smoke around with extra impetious order, he can march into smoke and push to buttons to make the missions. This is what we can call as an efficiency.

As you can see, we can use all abilities and stats of irmandinho in each of the games. Completely worth to points we spend on it.

Evaluating your troops

You can check the situation in army, you are playing. Lets evalaute some troops in each army as examples.

Aleph OSS 

Deva Spitfire :  Lets imagine you put a deva spitfire in a link of Dakinis which is lead by fantastic efficiency unit Dakini hmg. Wip15. Do you use it always ? Well. not always. Do you always use her as an attacker or defender ? Well not always. But she is handy to have. She is paying extra costs for number2,nanopulser and nowound inc. ? Answer is easy. No. not always. You need to get a deva spitfire if you really think that you will face ariadna for instance. then you can use the abilities more.

check the state with Dakini hmg which is 12 points cheaper. You use BS all the time. You buff it all the time. You use mimetism in all face to face checks. You use hmg all the time and even many times in each single game. You get what ever you can get for 21 points. But you dont use the wip13 value at all. Not something you will care. A Dakini could be cheaper, if the wip was lets say 10 and lets say if it was 19 pts.

Aleph Steel phalanx . Myrmidons in a link. Dont get me wrong. Myrmidon is cool unit. But for instance do you use close combat ability of each of your myrmidons? Impossible. So it means that you are already in loss of costs here. It hinders their frenzy and you earn some cost here. But any ways would you take a much cheaper myrmidon with no combat ability or mimetism at all to make links cheaper. I played steel phalanx alot. I used advantage of mimetism-6 and links all the time. But how many times have you found yourself in a close combat ? Think about it.

Tohaa

a makaul in a fireteam is a great example of efficiency. You use all the stats and equipments. You get extra burst in fireteam and you loose impetious state.

A clipso. Do you use its camo state or hidden form ? Always. Infiltration. Always. Do you push buttons with wip 13? Always. Mimetism-6 . All the time on face to face rolls. Bs11. Always. We could wish ofcourse for extra but our cost is dirty cheap. Do we use combirifle ? Yes all the time. Fantastic unit.

Neema. Do you use wip15 always ? Well no, maybe in initiative check. Is she a specialist ? No. So looks like we have an extra cost we are paying here. Bs13. Yep most of the time. Symbiont armor. Most of the time. Spitfire. Always. Close combat ? Not always. Maybe one in each 3 games. As an example for fiday this is %100. Neema is a good unit. But she is not %100 efficient.

Haqqislam

Fiday .. Do we use impersonation. :) Ofcourse. Can there be a single time, you are not using this ability? Wip15. Well when it is needed, helps alot. Shotgun. Thats cool when you are that much close to enemy. Mines.Smokes . Helps and makes this unit deadly as hell. Close combat. Sure. always.

That is why a fiday is perfect. You use every penny of your cost you are paying for a fiday.

Nomads

Moran. Do you use infiltration ? Are you joking? yes. Is it good to have a repeater on ? Damn yes. Are you ok with them to be a specialist ? Yes. Do you use koala and area denial ? Yes always. Would you like all these package for 17 pts ? :) . That is why moran is fantastic. You use every penny of it. If i was a nomad player and a moran was 25pts. instead of 17., i would still take him.

Conclusion

If you want to play this game in competitive way, you need to make this evaluation on all of your troops and decide . If you see that you are using all the stats and abilities that troop has. Your unit is perfect example of efficiency. Bring what ever efficient and keep non efficient troops on the shelves. 

So main issue about balance discussions come from this level of efficiency thing. Corvus Belli cost calculations are not related with level of efficiency.

Hope to meet with you soon.