Talk:James Ironwood/@comment-162.197.96.15-20150706055748/@comment-24891101-20150707021411

In regard to your analogy: Not that far. To go back to the RTS analogy, having a pool of musketeers and sending 15 to do the job of 10 (say, killing 10 opposing musketeers), when you have nothing else to be doing with your men. Micro being equal, in the 10 v 10, it's chance who walks away, but in the 15 v 10, you only lose four men to their ten. In a 20 v 10, you lose three. As you add more people, your casualties decrease, and the engagement ends faster, so fewer things can go wrong (thus losing more men) and they can be retasked faster. There is an upper limit to this based on the number who can simultaneously engage, of course. What I'm saying, ultimately, is that Atlas exploits this because to them, bodies are cheap (being robots). I'm not saying they engage at massively lopsided odds, merely somewhat lopsided odds.