Damage Explanation

[Master_Saji]

Alright, is there any explination on these three Values found on units?

Combat - Attack 1 - Damage Base
Combat - Attack 1 - Damage Number of Dice
Combat - Attack 1 - Damage Sides Per Dice

and maybe even...

Combat - Attack 1 - Damage Factor - Medium
Combat - Attack 1 - Damage Factor - Small
Combat - Attack 1 - Loss Factor

 

[AceHart]

Minimum damage = Base + NumberDice
Maximum damage = Base + NumberDice * Sides


The medium and small factors are used for area damage, close and as far as it goes.


Loss factors is used in "jumping shot" abilities.
Shots that hit one unit, then go on to the next, then go on to the next...
Every jump does less damage.


Here's a complete list btw:
http://www.world-editor-tutorials.thehelper.net/uniteditor.php

 

[phyrex1an]

Combat - Attack 1 - Damage Base

The base damge of the unit

Combat - Attack 1 - Damage Number of Dice

The number of dices rolled to calulate the real damage

Combat - Attack 1 - Damage Sides Per Dice

The number of sides on each dice

A little explanation:
A unit has base damage 10. It has 1 dice and 6 sides.
In game it will stand that the damage is 11 - 16.
The formula is
Lowest: Base damage + number of dices
Highest: Base damage + number of dices * number of sides

This way you can alter the way damage is dealt by a unit.
For example the chanse to get 6 on a 6 sided dice is higher than get 6 with two 3 sided dices
1/6 against 1/9
This is maybe not very usefull in game ^^

Combat - Attack 1 - Damage Factor - Medium

Only used by splash damage. The factor for the medium dmage area.
For example if it is 0.9 it deals only 90% of the damage in the full damage area

Combat - Attack 1 - Damage Factor - Small

Same as above but for the small damage area

Combat - Attack 1 - Loss Factor

This has to do with the (Line) damage, it is how how much damage is lost (or gained if bigger than 1) from target 1 to target 2, from target 2 to target 3 ect.



There is a (not completed) tutorial with all vaules in the unit editor here

 

[Sargon]

So with the damage factor-medium and the damage factor-small fields, you can make an attack do more damage on the outside of the AOE than the middle? Neat.

 

[Master_Saji]

Alright, thanks alot you two ^_^

 

[Ruination]

I've been wondering about the base damage also, because the base damage of every hero is 0. That makes no sense to me. Why is that?

 

[AceHart]

Heroes "work" with Strength, Agility and Intelligence.
A Hero's damage would mostly depend on his strength.
And, usually, they start with slightly more than 0 strength...

That said, if you want a Hero that starts with rather high damage but without needing to start with high stats,
you can set his base damage to something other than 0.

 

[phyrex1an]

A Hero's damage would mostly depend on his strength..

As long strenght is the heros primary attribute. It is the primary attribut that determin the attack.