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Okay, I'm not trying to be obnoxious here.
The title was just to get the attention of Dagmar, who I gather has enormous respect on this website. Fear not! I'm not challenging this. I just wanted Dagmar's input on the trials I've been doing to compare housecarls and other followers. I'm an engineer and I'm used to doing trials that eliminate all variables except the one I'm focusing on. I did this with respect to Lydia and Frea (refer to my post entitled 'Frea versus Lydia in: death to the stormcloaks')
My first test seemed to completely overturn the idea that housecarls (Lydia) were better than any opposition (Frea).
I was not entirely happy with my first experiment though, because it only tested tanking with a follower against conventionally armed opponents (Weapons and armour).
I have repeated the trials at Moldering Ruins. At first I tried to get figures for the action outside the ruin but there were far too many random variables to make sense of the data without running dozens of tests with both Frea and Lydia. I settled for the fight inside the ruin. This tested how the pair fought against a Volikhar master vampire and his thrall, so the duel was against opponents wielding serious magic. Again it was at level 78 and on master difficulty. The basis of the experiment was just as it was in the previous post.
I timed three runs for both Lydia and Frea, equally armoured and with weapons tempered to the same degree. Both wore daedric armour. Lydia had a daedric shield and a daedric sword; Frea had a pair of stahlrim war-axes.
Each contestant had to kill the vampire and thrall, timed from the moment that the first offensive magicka was hurled at yours truly.
Here are the results...
Frea: 20 seconds, 19 seconds, 21 seconds.
Lydia: 30 seconds, 37 seconds, 32 seconds.
Once again, I conclude that Frea beats housecarl when given the same standard of equipment that suits their skill-set.
If I got you right, Dagmar, you are arguing the opposite based on statistics.
How is it then, that in real time, in genuine Skyrim scenarios, that I have found completely the opposite of what you are suggesting?.....or have I misunderstood?
The title was just to get the attention of Dagmar, who I gather has enormous respect on this website. Fear not! I'm not challenging this. I just wanted Dagmar's input on the trials I've been doing to compare housecarls and other followers. I'm an engineer and I'm used to doing trials that eliminate all variables except the one I'm focusing on. I did this with respect to Lydia and Frea (refer to my post entitled 'Frea versus Lydia in: death to the stormcloaks')
My first test seemed to completely overturn the idea that housecarls (Lydia) were better than any opposition (Frea).
I was not entirely happy with my first experiment though, because it only tested tanking with a follower against conventionally armed opponents (Weapons and armour).
I have repeated the trials at Moldering Ruins. At first I tried to get figures for the action outside the ruin but there were far too many random variables to make sense of the data without running dozens of tests with both Frea and Lydia. I settled for the fight inside the ruin. This tested how the pair fought against a Volikhar master vampire and his thrall, so the duel was against opponents wielding serious magic. Again it was at level 78 and on master difficulty. The basis of the experiment was just as it was in the previous post.
I timed three runs for both Lydia and Frea, equally armoured and with weapons tempered to the same degree. Both wore daedric armour. Lydia had a daedric shield and a daedric sword; Frea had a pair of stahlrim war-axes.
Each contestant had to kill the vampire and thrall, timed from the moment that the first offensive magicka was hurled at yours truly.
Here are the results...
Frea: 20 seconds, 19 seconds, 21 seconds.
Lydia: 30 seconds, 37 seconds, 32 seconds.
Once again, I conclude that Frea beats housecarl when given the same standard of equipment that suits their skill-set.
If I got you right, Dagmar, you are arguing the opposite based on statistics.
How is it then, that in real time, in genuine Skyrim scenarios, that I have found completely the opposite of what you are suggesting?.....or have I misunderstood?