- A reference guide and manual in Russian for Heroes 3.

although I still haven't figured out what the numbers in the table of values refer to and where they came from? :confused:

The numbers are taken from a table called "Comparative Characteristics of Units," which is available for download in previous posts. They directly affect the determination of the relative strength of the army. For example, everyone knows that an archangel can easily defeat an archer, but only if there aren't too many of them.
The strength of the army can be calculated by multiplying the number of creatures in a stack by their strength/effectiveness coefficient, which is directly reflected in this table. The table does not claim to be an absolute truth (the report is based on empirical observations and reflects one of the possible, highly probable options, but does not claim to be the truth - author's note).

P.S. If you want, you can try to create your own table, using the Thieves' Guild of the castle, increasing/decreasing the number of different types of troops, and periodically checking the guild. But if the values there are really like in the table, e.g., gold dragon=8613; Azure dragon=78845, then it will take a very long time to do this. :)

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if there is a formula or dependency there, then it works; you just need to understand what to use as input data in it

And regarding the strength of the angel army, the trick is this: invisible counted 195 for three stacks.
Then the maximum number of archers in three stacks is 195 x 1.5 = 293.
So, if there are 294 archers, then there are two stacks, right?
It seems so... But no: with two stacks of archangels, there are already 4, not 3.

I just can't figure out why the number of stacks should correspond to the ratio of the strength of your army to the strength of the enemy army