ATTACKING FORMULAS

Firstly let’s go over the basics.

1 general is 1.00
2 generals is 1.03
3 generals is 1.06
4 generals is 1.09

Now that’s out of the way lets get onto the actual calculation of attacks. This is how I used to calc all my attacks until I had my good buddy Morphed (Quokka Island) build us an attack calculator on excel to make it easier for me. What can I say I am lazy! Though here is the formula for working out attacks manually. I will set some parameters that will need to be changed to fit your province obviously, but for this manual on manually calculating attacks we shall use simple numbers.

We will base it on an orc province with an OME of 125%

We shall start of first with the easier calculation of the two.
SENDING AN ALL ELITE ARMY
Obviously you need to know targets defence, for this example we shall work it on 40,000.
I always calc my elite numbers first before adding in generals.
So the first calculation would be 8 (elite off value) * 1.25 (OME value)
8 * 1.25 = 10
HOW MANY GENERALS DO I SEND?
Well it depends on the situation. If you are only making on random hit, and we are not saving generals waiting for someone to suicide send all of them. If you are doing multiple hits obviously you can only send as many as you have spare.  For the most part random grabs send 2-3. If you can’t make the hit without the fourth, then send it.
The next calculation is 10 (Modded elite value) * (1.03)(1.06)(1.09) ((2,3, and 4 generals respectively)
1 General = 1
2 Generals = 1.03
3 Generals = 1.06
4 Generals = 1.09

FIGURING OUT HOW MANY TO SEND
Targets defence is 40,000.
All that needs to be done is 40,000 (targets defence)  / 10.9 (Value of elite with OME + Generals), in this case 4 generals)

40000 / 10.9 = 3669.724
Obviously you round up to the nearest number and I always add a few extra. So In this case I would send 3720.

SPEC AND ELITE ARMIES
This is similiar to the above calculation with a few minor tweaks. Working out your modded spec value is the same as above. A (spec value) *B (OME) *C (Generals sent).

(5 * 1.25) * 1.09 = 6.8125
Once you have a modded spec value. The following step is to mulitply that value by the number of specs you actually have.
For instance I have 2500 specs.
6.8125 * 2500 = 17031.25

So we have 17031.25 offence from specs.
We then take that number from the defence.
40,000 - 17031.25 = 22968.75

You now have their new defence value to do the elite calc with whats left over.
Hope that helps guys.
Good luck.