COA: Anslem vs Vargus

[Evil_J]

This is a comparison of the 2 generals just in the most popular ali baba adventures, which are the ones that really matter.
Nusala is some kind of a stronger mma, means its good for the old adventures, not so much on babas so i didn't even sim it.

Long story short, i'm picking VARGUS, and its the one ill use on guides from now on, unless we can get the others in some way in the future.
here's why:




some other notes:
- vargus makes mounted bow piece of cake, that's where we get the most savings
- anslem can be used in more camps than vargus, which means more walking, thus making it slower to run an adventure, this is also an important point to me, vargus is better at alternating attacks
- i didnt sim FT properly yet because it wont matter to me for the picking, so i'll only sim vargus, on BLT it saves 103R (0.86h) and saves 1 mma sac

[KingHomer]

Long story short, i'm picking VARGUS, and its the one ill use on guides from now on

The important part for many of you ^

[Snowin]

Thanks for this EJ!

[Domesday]

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Long story short, i'm picking VARGUS, and its the one ill use on guides from now on.

THANK YOU, EVIL_J! The one and only true rock star in the game!

[AHughB]

The Master speaks.

[Perwyn]

Thanks for the analysis.

....- anslem can be used in more camps than vargus.....

To me this is the important distinction between the two and why my personal choice will be Anslem. Not saying anybody's right or wrong, just saying I'm choosing him because I'll get more use out of him with the way I play the game, which includes making my own guides most of the time.

[Ninja_Buff]

Thanks EvilJ

[Bigbobdog]

Thanks for the analysis.



To me this is the important distinction between the two and why my personal choice will be Anslem. Not saying anybody's right or wrong, just saying I'm choosing him because I'll get more use out of him with the way I play the game, which includes making my own guides most of the time.

I think the chart at beginning is important. Anslem can be used more often and still doesnt save as much as Vargus. Except for 1st thief Vargus saves more time in all the others. Better to use on 1 camp and save 100 then use on 10 camps saving 5 each.

[TboneX]

Thank you.

This goes a bit further than what I was working up on sims by expressing results in hours saved for barracks, which is a great measure, imo.

As always, your work is appreciated, as is your willingness to share.

[Perwyn]

I think the chart at beginning is important. Anslem can be used more often and still doesnt save as much as Vargus. Except for 1st thief Vargus saves more time in all the others. Better to use on 1 camp and save 100 then use on 10 camps saving 5 each.

The time savings in the barracks is important. But with the combination of skunks and recruitment guides it's not the deciding factor for me. Being able to use Anslem instead of a major against a few camps and also being able to use him more than Vargus fits the way I play better than Vargus does. Also I'm not looking at only Ali adventures, but the Evil Queen chain as well. Not trying to be contrary just offering an alternate opinion. I don't think there's a right or wrong choice here, it depends on how a person is playing the game. If a person is using Evil_J's guides all the time, then they'd better pick Vargus since he is, otherwise, there are other factors to consider in the decision making process.