I know i have to change research etc. manually, except military medicine, i set everything to max, including boni and premium, so that's not the reason for the difference.
I knew the moral of the attacker because of a battle report a day ago, at least i thought so, anyhow he got +5 moral since then, maybe that was the reason i've lost, but my main question isn't answered yet:
There is a bonus of recovering troops if you win the battle. My question is: do you get that bonus after you've won the fieldbattle, no matter what happens in the siege? Or is the whole battle calculated first to decide who gets the bonus in fieldbattle?
I've never lost an attack against active players (against some abandoneds though
), i have more than 5k attacks these round, i'd say i know how to use the simulator, i'm just quite surprised by such a big difference in simulations and reality by 5 moral difference (and nothing else, except maybe lower values for the attacker) and try to figure out why. In defense against players i have very little experience, and i want to learn enough from this report that will never happen again