Year-End MA After Action Report (2003)

[Zazen13]

The past year has been an exciting one, new maps and a new rotation system with AH2 on the horizon. In the interest of scientific observation I have compiled some data from the HTC database for the year ending December 31,2003 (Jan. 2003 to Dec. 2003 inclusive).

KILLS

Rooks:2,451,393
Avg. Kills/Camp:204,282

Bishops:2,207,677
Avg. Kills/Camp:183,973

Knights:2,272,722
Avg. Kills/Camp:189,394

DEATHS

Rooks:2,105,349
Avg. Deaths/Camp:175,446

Bishops:2,568,464
Avg. Deaths/Camp:214,039

Knights:2,271,325
Avg. Deaths/Camp:189,277

K/D RATIOS

Rooks:1.16 Kills/Death

Bishops:0.87 Kills/Death

Knights:1.00 Kills/Death

INTERESTING 2003 FACTS: (Not Subjective; Based on Actual Data)

-Rooks OUT-KILLED Bishops by 243,716 kills in 2003.
*That works out to 20,310 MORE Kills/Camp on average.
-Rooks OUT-KILLED Knights by 178,671 kills in 2003.
*That works out to 14,889 MORE Kills/Camp on average.

-Bishops died 463,115 MORE times than Rooks in 2003.
*That works out to 38,593 MORE Deaths/Camp on average.
-Bishops died 297,139 MORE times than Knights in 2003.
*That works out to 24,762 MORE Deaths/Camp on average.

-Rooks OUT-KILLED the mean average by 6% in 2003.
-Bishops killed 4% BELOW the mean average in 2003.
-Knights killed 1% BELOW the mean average in 2003.

-Rooks died 10% LESS than the mean average in 2003.
-Bishops died 11% MORE than the mean average in 2003.
-Knights died 2% LESS than the mean average in 2003.

There you have it, enjoy and feel free to verify my findings, it's all here on the website. I will not state my conclusions as part of this post as to keep it objective, feel free to draw your own conclusions and post them here.

Zazen

[_Schadenfreude_]

lololol too funny this is going to break the 500 thread ceiling!!

[Saintaw]

Well, dunno since when Rooks have largest population, but I remember it was not this way a few months back. All I can say is WTG rooks

[Silat]

Zazen,

      Can you tell the numbers of each side ? Sorties? Planes in the arena and such?

[Flyboy]

well its official... bishops sucks

[thrila]

the way i read it bish fight more often than knits or rooks.

[Hap]

who won resets and how many?

[killnu]

thrila, do you mean they fought and lost more?  
~S~

[SLO]

Originally posted by Flyboy
well its official... bishops sucks

wanna test that theory of yours:)

[eskimo2]

Zazen,

Very nice work and interesting results!

Thank you for compiling and posting them.

eskimo

[lazs2]

guess that proves that the country with the most numbers wins... If you attack in 10/1 numbers your risk tgoes down.  

pretty simple stuff really.

what is surprising is that the knits were the least numbers so were fighting from a huge disadvantage  (prime time at least) and still did well.

rooks seem to have sqauandered their huge advantage... must have been all the suicide fuel porkers and newbies.

lazs

[pugg666]

rooks seem to have sqauandered their huge advantage... must have been all the suicide fuel porkers and newbies.

Gawds I have been out of the arenas for a long time...that was the typical bish tactic for so long it's not funny. 10-15 typhies all flying in a gaggle would come in about 10-15k, all of em would be dead within a minute.

[WldThing]

This shows that rooks are the superior race.

[Roscoroo]

I dont think it matters .. the rooks had higher k/d's even when the #'s were way down also .

i figured w/ the # adv it would go the other way ...

[Zazen13]

Originally posted by Roscoroo
I dont think it matters .. the rooks had higher k/d's even when the #'s were way down also .

i figured w/ the # adv it would go the other way ...

Yes, I found that interesting too. Actually, while compiling this data that very pattern quickly emerged. There was less, usually much less, than a 1/10th of 1 % variation in Kills/Death within any country month to month. The fact that this data trend is so consistant, for each country, over such a long period is intriguing.

Also of note, referring back to the old data from Beta onwards to the present, Rooks maintain this same, anomolously high kill rate throughout. This includes the 18 month period where Bishops and to a lesser degree Knights outnumbered Rooks by a vast margin. Curiously, also, during that same period where Bishops consistantly had overwhelming numbers, their results were just as abysmally sub-par as they are now and throughout 2003. Knights have always been somewhere in between the two, leaning toward the Bishop end of the spectrum of very poor performance relative to Rooks.

In fact, Rooks Kills/Death vs. Knights was 1.20 to 1 for Rooks compared to 0.84 to 1 for Knights vs. Rooks. The ratio of 1.20 to 1 for Rooks is above the Rook average of 1.16 to 1. The ratio of 0.84 to 1 for Knights is well below the Knights average of 1 to 1 and even worse than the Bishops pathetic 0.87 to 1 overall ratio for 2003. So, the Knights marginally better performance relative to Bishops is owed entirely to the fact that they enjoyed disproportionately greater success vs. Bishops than  vs. Rooks.

Apparently, each country has, in fact, a unique character unto itself that transcends time, relative numbers, natural migration of squads and new players. Deductive logic then would dictate that  this verifiable trend in the data from Beta to the present, including the 2003 data I presented,  is the result of the large core of players each country possesses that has never, and therefore likely will never, change to another country. Because of this fact, the relative success and failure of the three countries will never change by any meaningfull degree in the future.

Zazen