Does a higher tactics skill penalize your potential battle renown?

[Biggiesized]

Since tactics is designed to make battles easier (especially if you limit max battle size), will the corresponding renown for a given battle be INVERSELY related?

For example, a starting battle advantage of -10 might grant you 40 renown for winning.  Pump a few points into tactics and run the same battle scenario.  Would the game log now inform you that you are only eligible for 30 renown since the [dis]advantage has improved to say -8?

Or does tactics simply make it easier to win high renown battles?

Also, on a related note, I read the following post regarding battle advantage over on the GameSpot forums:

It's also related to the relative level of the troops involved. Fight 20 knights and you'll have a lower advantage than if you were fighting 20 looters. The number doesn't help you, it just shows you roughly how easy or hard the fight should be. You get more renown for lower advantage fights because they're harder.

Is this true regarding battle advantage vis a vis enemy troop quality?  If true, does anyone know how the game internally calculates troop quality and thus determine battle advantage?  Are troop tiers linear or exponential in terms of the effect they have?

 

[Biggiesized]

No one?

Is renown calculated simply by comparing your troop total versus the enemy troop total?

 

[Ash Plissken]

Unfortunately, the calculation of the renown value for a battle is a really hard thing to determine because of all the variables.  I think someone will have to spend some serious time with an editor to figure out how everything affects it.  But in my experience, it is true that troop levels are a factor in renown value.  I think that it also scales up with the power of both armies, even if the ratio between them doesn't change (e.g., 50 vs. 100 will get you more renown than 25 vs. 50).  As for having an inverse relationship with tactics, I'm not sure; that would be one of the hardest things to determine without an editor.  I could see it going either way, though.

I will let you know if I find out anything else about it!

 

[Tavarias]

I imagine if tactics is a balancing scale of your numbers and their numbers it could factor in total reinforcement assessment of the round. If you lose a battle you are not getting any renown? However if you win the round to the determined total troops capable that the battle size slider allows for.wah lah... the ratio is in place of factors that determine it otherwise...

but Im not a figures guy myself. I know dead and I know squat.

 

[Somebody]

Tactics doesn't really factor in this (however, it does affect battle advantage) - the value calculated in script_calculate_renown_value is equal to the ratio (enemy strength)*100/(friends strength) multiplied to (enemy strength) again and divided by 100, multiplied by (player party strength), divided by (friends strength), and finally taken as the square root of that number divided by 5 (capped to 50). The strength calculations are fairly simple - 2*(level + 4)^2/100 for each unwounded member. All that extra multiplication and division is to scale up the numbers so they don't get rounded easily in an integer-only calculation.

 

[Verruckt]

Tactics do not penalize your battles renown, not even a bit. i tested myself on warband from tactics 0 to 10 with the same party vs the same enemies and the renown stays the same.

 

[Cpt. Nemo]

I bet they figured it out in the past five years.