[FrankTrollman]

Unfortunately, that's true. Formulas really aren't more useful than eyeballing things. A Precision of 11 doesn't mean anything for a unit that doesn't have a ranged weapon, nor does a Precision of 5. But for a unit with a Lightning attack, the precision of 11 would be "pretty good" and a precision of 5 would virtually invalidate the unit.

Morales of 25 or 32 basically shouldn't happen at all, they make too many important parts of the game go away (fear, awe, repelling, etc.), so IMO neither of the presented stat lines should be recruitable under any circumstances. But if they were armed with daggers and clothed in furs they'd still be a crappy deal at virtually any price.

Sadly, the number of variables involved in balancing a troop are so numerous that a chart of any kind is simply incapable of handling it. W aren't talking about something that would fit in a vertical and horizontal axis. You've got a unit's most useful purpose, you've got how good it is at fulfilling that function against the other factions in the appropriate time frame, you've got the available magicians of the faction and the spells and support it's likely to get. You've got how vulnerable the unit is to a wide variety of potential schemes to circumvent it, and so on. Already we're at a five dimensinal table that itself has some fudge factors (you can be resilient in melee by having a large HP, Prot, or Defense, for example - but Defense counts less for large creatures and more for smaller creatures and so on), you can' even display that intabular form, even with a spiral-bound book.

The human mind is a very powerful (if somewhat slow) computer. It can handle these problems. An Abacus (table) or electronic computer iss simply incapable of solving a problem that is that complex. Honestly, your "gut feeling" about a unit is fundamentally a better gauge of the utility and balance of that unit than any mathematical formula you could possibly write.

-Frank