Basic Principles of Combat

The two most common battle-themed questions I hear are:
"Why did so many of my troops die?"

and

"Why didn't my special troop work right?"

DoA combat follows an order of battle. It's a mathematical formula based on troop type. Rather than explain it in detail here (or pirate an article from someone else's blog), I refer you to Blackrabbit2999.

http://blackrabbit2999.blogspot.com/2011/05/facebook-dragons-of-atlantis-battle.html

The author has personally used him as a source and found his information to be valid.

Yes, some people use the Battle Feature found in a specific script when factoring combat before launching an attack, but we at LoS would never, NEVER EVER encourage anyone to download and use scripts because LoS knows that scripts are Bad, and give an Unfair Advantage and thus are Not Allowed by Kabam. So read the Kabam Terms of Service and don't use those Awful Scripting Thingies or else a lemming will nip your pecker off.

K? 'Nuff said.