DeletedUser5218
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I was told that if you do not do any of the optional Squad Upgrades in the Research Tree, the battles throughout the game/map will be easier and less costly to cater. Is this true?
These increase the size of your troop squads, so will let you take more troops into battle making the map provinces easier. The twist in the tournament is: Enemy squad size is a percentage of your regular squad size. So, if your squad size is 100 and you win tournament battle with 10% troop loss, you need to replace 10 units. If you do the same battle with the same parameters except your squad size is 500, you'll have to replace 50 units. So, the fights are not necessarily more difficult, but the cost in troops is higher. At 4 encounters/round of tournament provinces, doing 5 rounds in 6 provinces is 120 encounters. You would have to be conquering 15 map provinces/week (at 8 encounters/province) to be doing as many map encounters as tournament encounters.optional Squad Upgrades in the Research Tree,
You're wrong, because I have skipped every optional squad tech from Dwarves to Halflings and all my scoutable provinces are still Very Easy and Easy, AND I am slightly overscouted (cleared more than chapter requirement). Have you actually done it, or heard evidence from someone who has done it, or are you just guessing?you can only skip about 5-6 squad upgrades before the provinces become impossibly to fight.
Yes and no. It's a trade off between tournaments and provinces, I think. If you don't do the optional researches I think the tournament enemies are smaller, but it's harder to fight the provinces. If you do the optional upgrades, the tournaments are harder, bu the provinces are easier. I may have that backwards though. I mostly cater/negotiate my way through the game.