Thanks a lot dear comrade, you helped me - and hopefully some other guys - a lot with that chat.
I also appreciate the Excel-sheet and will play around with it.
It might turn out, now that I have a couple of battles on my account - that the battles are a little bit too chaotic for my taste ...

Thanks a lot for your time and effort! It´s getting clearer.
That said, I am still struggling with the term "Impact Foot", since I haven´t come across that troop type in sengoku jidai. Or is it a sort of capability for certain troop types? It is a bit misleading that you have the impact phase in ...

It indeed helped a bit - thanks.
So, I figured out, that POI MOdifier is a sort of how the POA Ratings translate into overall combat difference (percent), where 100 POA = 33%. And troop quality seems to be already integrated into one of the POA figures.
Then the morale kicks in.
But what is ...

Thanks a lot, Snuggle Bunny, for your quick reply.
I have read the manual thoroughly and studied the POA and Melee tables, too.
Still, I am struggling about the impact of troop quality (experience), strength in numbers and moral state in comparison with the POA numbers. I couldn´t tell how to ...

I am struggling to find any formula that could describe the relation between POI (as far as I understand these numbers are based on class, weapon, terrain, etc.) and the Experience, Moral and sheer number of men in a unit.
How can I come to grips with an idea of how this all is related so I can ...