Welcome to the seventh episode of the Kards Podcast!
This week – We are getting game designy:
- What are the basic in-game building blocks of Kards?
- What is 1 kredit worth?
- What is the basic unit in the game?
- What is the “average” unit in the game?
- What is the “average” order in the game?
- And then, most importantly, why is all of this important and how can we use this information?
Incidentally, I was catching up on some old podcasts and Ludology just covered this exact same topic this week. I had no idea. I listened to it after I recorded, but the points are similar and I highly recommend giving it a listen as well.
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Cards from discussion
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Kredit vs. HQ HP
Kredit vs. Unit Damage
Charts from discussion
1 Kredit is worth
| Card | Weight for rarity | Kredits | Cards | 1 kredit = Cards | Direct HQ HP | 1 kredit = Direct HQ HP | Direct Unit Damage | 1 kredit = direct unit damage |
| Convoy HX 175 | .5 | 3 | 2 random | .335 | ||||
| Arctic Convoy | .375 | 4 | 2 Units | .1875 | ||||
| Mobilization | .125 | 5 | 3 random | .075 | ||||
| .5975 | ||||||||
| Air Blitz | .375 | 4 | 4 | .375 | ||||
| Bismarck | .125 | 10 | 7 | .0875 | ||||
| Fortification | .5 | 3 | 7 | 1.165 | ||||
| 1.6275 | ||||||||
| From the People | .36 | 2 | 3 | .54 | ||||
| Burning Skies | .36 | 1 | 4 flying | .72 | ||||
| The Hammer | .27 | 3 | 6 ground | .54 | ||||
| 1.8 |
1 Kredit vs. 1 Card vs. 1 Point of HQ HP vs. 1 point of unit damage
| Kredits | Cards | Points of HQ HP | Points of unit damage | |
| Kredits get | 1 | .5975 | 1.6275 | 1.8 |
| Card is worth | 1.6736 | 1 | 2.724 | 3.012 |
| 1 point of direct HQ damage | .6144 | .3671 | 1 | 1.106 |
| 1 point of direct Unit damage | .556 | .33221 | .9049 | 1 |
The theoretical basic unit
| Name | Rarity | Nationality | Type | Deploy/Cost | Operation | Power | Hit Points | Text |
| 1. Infantry Regiment | Standard | Germany | Infantry | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| 506th Airborne | Standard | USA | Infantry | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |
| Himeji Regiment | Standard | Japan | Infantry | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | |
| 30th Regiment | Standard | USA | Infantry | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | |
| 960. Volksgrenadier | Standard | Germany | Infantry | 3 | 1 | 3 | 6 | |
| Average | 1.8 | .8 | 2.6 | 3 |
The theoretical average unit and average order
- 325 total cards in the game right now (build 0.8.28, March 15, 2019) – I think I might have misspoken in the recording and said 324, apologies!
- 112 orders, 12 countermeasures, 201 units
- 114 standard, 84 limited, 77 special, 50 elite
- Total card pool for one player 912 cards
| Type | Rarity Weight | Avg. Deploy/Cost | Adjusted Value | Avg. Operate | Adjusted Value | Avg. Attack | Adjusted Value | Avg. Hit Points | Adjusted Value |
| Standard Unit | 0.353 | 2.901 | 1.024 | 1.31 | 0.4624 | 2.676 | 0.9446 | 3.296 | 1.163 |
| Limited Unit | 0.279 | 3.803 | 1.061 | 1.589 | 0.443 | 3.304 | 0.922 | 3.07 | 0.857 |
| Special Unit | 0.209 | 3.881 | 0.8111 | 1.5 | 0.3135 | 2.976 | 0.622 | 3.524 | 0.736 |
| Elite Unit | 0.159 | 4.406 | 0.701 | 2.031 | 0.323 | 3.8125 | 0.606 | 4.125 | 0.656 |
| 3.597 | 1.542 | 3.095 | 3.413 | ||||||
| Standard Order | 0.348 | 1.692 | 0.589 | ||||||
| Limited Order | 0.25 | 2.893 | 0.723 | ||||||
| Special Order | 0.268 | 3.6 | 0.965 | ||||||
| Elite Order | 0.134 | 4.2 | 0.563 | ||||||
| 2.84 |
