Are you sure about the "automatic max def against XXX damage type" ? I knew that damage types and resistance were implemented in the code, but I was thinking that they were not used yet.

 Is there somewhere in game where this info can be found to know what armors pieces are good against ?

1 point of def over 10 gives you a 10% bonus. Basically stat modifier equals (stat - 10)/10. So if you have a 10 attack weapon with 15 strength, your total attack (if you're just using just the weapon) is 10 x 1.5.

I had a bunch of fights today and got the feeling it was soming like this. I had my king with a bow an attack of 9 and defender had like 3 defence. I have no way to be 100% sure of this, but felt like I "rolled" a 1d9 for damage vs defenders "roll" 1-3 defence.

Different damage types I have not considred how that works.

ugh that explains the massive swings I have had in fights. now with units of more than one model do their swings happen individually vs the unit they are attacking's defense? If I have a unit of 3 guys with 10 each attack for (showing on the unit card 30) do they take one big 1-30 swing or do they take 3 1-10 swings?

I miss the system of combat in MoM if its one big throw of the dice. randomness with the potential for that much of a wild swing in result skews the combat a lot. I watched my one mace wielding lvl 3 soldier single handedly massacre a sovereign and his whole army today and was pretty puzzled how he did it.

LOL!!

Hope he became a hero with that show of strength

Did you ever miss?

I suspect in that case that the defender had the "right" armor against piercing damage, otherwise you should have been able to score up to 8 damage. A damage roll of 3-6 is alot pore possible thought since several different rolls can give that, so maybe you didn't get lucky enough to score higher.

I would guess in the plate and helmet question that the 8+1d5 is correct, otherwise it would screw up the entire system.

In regards to stack units with 30 attack, I agree it would be a lot better if they had three 1-10 rolls than 1-30, especially since this makes sovereigns and adventurers more important. They should have an attack rating of 3x10 instead of 30, and the defense value would still only be the single 10 and not thirty. This of course would make these units a lot less cost effective (since you still have to pay armor for all of them even though you don't get to add it up), but pretty reasonable considering someone who attacks this unit probably isn't trying to cut through all their armors at the same time. Maybe have a system where they get several defense rolls though, to make the armor worthwhile but not quite as powerful.

This would lead to the player actually having a choice between different unit sizes, instead of always pumping out the biggest available?

Tomas

Damage is equal to attack roll - defense roll. So with attack 10 against defense 10, no special modifiers, it would be 1d10 - 1d10 => damage taken. Less than or equal to 0 is zero damage. It is possible to roll 0s as well as the max.

Nowhere Seems that bit never made it into the UI. It might be worth checking the equipment XML to see. I don't have access to it at the moment.

I struggled really hard to like this game. But so far it has been excises in frustration. How does the stuff works, what is the logic behind it...even when we think, we figure the things out, design decisions just do not make sense. It is not only that all the math was not explained to us clearly by developers, I also think a lot of it needs to be redesigned from the scratch and it is a little too  late for it now. Sorry for rambling outburst, but I am really disappointed that 8 year old game of Age of Wonders is still a superior design.

I have noticed a lot of "strangeness" during my short time with this game.  Playing the story of campaign mode of the game atm and have run into multiple battles where a group of archers (8) does a lot less damage the to a certain mob then just one individual archer.  The mob in question was pretty high on armor (22 iirc) and the individual archers had an attack rating of 6 where as the group of archers had an attack rating of 48, yet I have never seen the group do more then 3 damage to this particular mob while the individuals where hitting between 1-6 although they seemed to miss a lot more.  Against lighter armored mobs the group does insane damage while the individual still seem to do 1-6 damage.  Just trying to figure this out, but the math seems to be messed up somewhere.

Or maybe manual has obsolete info, and that thing with matching defense never made it into final build of the game.