Having completed round 2 I found that the enemy squad size percentages were the same as round 1. Interestingly; this round was slightly, and only ever so slightly, easier than round 1. That makes little sense unless the difficulty was adjusted mid-tournament. Of the 45 provinces done I captured full information on only the last 35, so it's on those that the below information is based.
First, the issue of random enemy units with the usual suspects having an alleged greater weighting:
- Of the 35 provinces Mistwalkers (MW) appeared 19 times. That's over 50% of the time. Mistwalkers weren't previously part of the Planks Tournament.
- Of the 35 provinces Heavy Ranged (HR) units appeared 17 times. That's about 50% of the time. Heavy Ranged units weren't previously part of the Planks Tournament.
- Of the 35 provinces Mage (M) units appeared 9 times. That's about 25% of the time. Mage units weren't previously part of the Planks Tournament.
- Of the 35 provinces there were 16 instances where a MW/HR or MW/M or HR/M combo occurred. That's just under 50% of the time.
- Of the 35 provinces there were 8 instances where 4/5 different enemy unit types showed up in the same line-up. That's just under 25% of the time.
- Of the 35 provinces ONLY the usual suspects appeared...5 times. There are a few caveats here, as Dryads didn't appear once and Ancient Orcs appeared a lot less frequently than they did yesterday. That latter point is why I'm thinking that the difficulty was adjusted mid-tournament. So, when I say, "Usual suspects," I mean any Light Ranged, Light Melee and Heavy Melee units but EXCLUDING Mistwalkers.
Take what you like from the above but the so-called weighting is a joke.
The next part is on catering, so some info on my city:
Chapter: 12
Coin limit: 22m
Supplies limit: 2.2m
T1 production/day: c. 240k
T2 production/day: c. 180k
T3 production/day: c. 220k
Orc production/day: c. 5800
The orc production rate came from my 3 armories and level 24 Heroes' Forge. But how many people are running around with a level 24 or greater Heroes' Forge? That figure does exclude my 26 Orc Ships and 6 Orc Nests, though. My educated guess is that the number of people running around with that number of Orc Ships and Orc Nests is even less than the number of people with a level 24 or greater Heroes' Forge.
These were the catering requirements of provinces 11 through 45:
11 | 21k T1 - 16k T2 - 4k orcs |
12 | 46k T1 - 17k T2 |
13 | 24k T1 - 12k T3 - 39k mana |
14 | 40k T2 - 13k T3 |
15 | 220k supplies - 56k T1 |
16 | 30k T1 - 23k T2 - 15k T3 |
17 | 250k supplies - 48k T2 |
18 | 33k T1 - 25k T2 - 6.6k orcs |
19 | 35k T1 - 26k T2 - 17k T3 |
20 | 36k T1 - 56k T2 |
21 | 38k T1 - 19k T3 - 61k mana |
22 | 80k T1 - 20k T3 |
23 | 3.3m coins - 21k T3 - 8.3k orcs |
24 | 350k supplies - 33k T2 - 8.7k orcs |
25 | 45k T1 - 34k T2 - 72k mana |
26 | 36k T2 - 46k T3 |
27 | 74k T2 - 78k mana |
28 | 76k T2 - 25k T3 |
29 | 52k T1 - 26k T3 - 83 mana |
30 | 82k T2 - 27k T3 |
31 | 56k T1 - 42k T2 - 11k orcs |
32 | 460k supplies - 57k T1 - 11k orcs |
33 | 470k supplies - 59k T1 - 95k mana |
34 | 490k supplies - 61k T1 - 30k T3 |
35 | 500k supplies - 63k T1 - 31k T3 |
36 | 64k T1 - 98k T2 |
37 | 66k T1 - 66k T3 |
38 | 52k T2 - 34k T3 - 110k mana |
39 | 140k T1 - 53k T2 |
40 | 71k T1 - 72k T3 |
41 | 73k T1 - 56k T2 - 36k T3 |
42 | 600k supplies - 75k T1 - 57k T2 |
43 | 152k T1 - 38k T3 |
44 | 78k T1 - 60k T2 - 39k T3 |
45 | 6.4m coins - 640k supplies - 61k T2 |
The catering requirement for province 11 was already asking me for nearly 10% of my T1, T2 and orc daily productions. And the costs just escalate from that point. Province 20 asked me for 15% of T1 and over 30% of T2 daily production. I'm a slow advancer anyway, with some chapters having taken me about 6 months to complete, as I've spent a lot of time and KP upgrading my AWs. But those kind of figures are going to cripple cities that don't take as laid back approach as I do to the research tree. And the orc requirements? They were just mind-boggling. Province 18 wanted more than my daily orc production. Province 24 wanted 1.5 of my daily orc production. Coin and supplies requirements, as you can see, were also relatively high but with coin and supply instants in stock it's swings and roundabouts...until they run out.
The above is yet more evidence that the tournament update is helping NO ONE.
EDIT: I should add that I have 12 of each T1, T2 and T3 manufactories. I understand that the average is 6 of each, so my 10% is someone else's 20% and my 30% is someone else's 60%. Those kind of figures are not equitable long term.