Been breeding more by generation than usual and it's having a nice effect. Easiest way to raise the lesser stats of troops, even my casters have some extra health/defense finally by generation 10.
Hi. I can't seem to be able to control how many troops my goblins bring into battle - I suspect command determines the max number, but it seems like one battle my gobbos will start with 8 troop and then next none, is there a way to refill the troops?
You just need to breed more base goblins. The basic goblins are shock troops by default that are cut down en masse. Each point of damage you take kills a goblin back up troop. You eat through them like nobody's business and it's the main thing that halts combat progress. It can actually be better to field goblin troops with less command as leaders, so less base goblins are killed when they're attacked. Of course the leading troop needs to be strong enough to tank that extra damage.
Command feels like the worst stat to raise for commanding/leading units for that reason. You'd need a ton of extra to survive an additional hit, and it'll just eat more base goblins. Better to raise attack to kill faster or defense to tank better than command just to sacrifice goblins quicker lol. I really hate Goblin Road for that reason.
That's one of my only major issues with this game, I wish the backup units had more effect on combat (And visual impact). Simplifying them to all being one shot by each point of damage makes me sad. I'd almost rather they just did away with the back up units and focused the game more on the lead units. Feels like using any back up units other than the base goblins is such a terrible waste.
I understand what they were going with (Kind of a simplified version of the enemy and your back up troops fighting off in the distance type thing as worthless minions compared to the lead units that are more important), but not really feeling the impact of the backup units is sad. I'd rather see some big numbers for them basically. Show them doing their full damage like a full army. Would be cool to see like "Goblin troops did xxx damage to the human troops". Seeing the backup troops with hundreds of total hp and damage would make this feel way better/cooler. Right now it just feels like it's the lead units fighting rather than two massive armies going at it.