I've run into a kind of roadblock, I made a new town essence spell that gave 5% crit chance pr essence, but it flat out refuses to work on regular units. They get the stat value, but never crits, no matter how high I put the value. (I had a 500+ crit unit, and it never crit.... and no I did not attack skeletons or other crit immune units)

Is it a bug or am I missing something here? I've tweaked elementaldefs, and the unitstat xml thingie (set default value to 1 crit etc. ) neither worked. 

(tried downgrading to 1.2 from 1.3 beta as well, still same issue)

I'm trying to come up with a way to boost the Bandit Lord background for the Sovereign, and having trouble with finding a balanced solution.

My immediate idea was to replace the two starting bandit units with new, upgradeable, versions. One axe unit and one sword and shield unit with two interesting abilities each, besides chainmail proficiency. Having four units with three members each at the start of the game can make for a strong opening game.

However, after trying this out it felt pretty dull. Especially since the bandits you can hire would remain rubbish units, only recruited in an emergency. So perhaps it's better to remove the extra starting units and give the three bandit units (club, bow and captain) a boost instead? Which at least involves making them fully upgradeable. That would give the ability a bit of a treasure hunt feel to it, as you scour the map for bandits to recruit before the AI wipes them out.

I also considered giving the Bandit Lord ability a flat boost in growth, say +1, symbolising a roguish talent to attract even hardened outlaws to join your settlements. That would also benefit the AI, who doesn't seem to know how to recruit units in battle.

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Another question I have is if it's possible to have a unit turn into another unit as it gains levels? My idea was to have recruitable weak units that grow in size and change appearance as you reach different tiers of experience.

There's any number of ways to possibly address this.  The answer I have in mind would be to give Bandit Lords a new building for Towns (not Forts/Conclave) that generates random Bandit units w/ low maintenance cost.

I'd thought of creating cheap Bandit units that make use of the Butcherman ability (group gets bigger as it kills things).

Lots of ways you could approach Bandit Lord.  I'd agree the general consensus is that Bandit Lords are one of the weaker abilities out there.

Maybe try making two different Gamemodifier "parts", each with one damage thingie. When I tried similar stuff with resources I had to make two different tags, I couldn't do both in one. (if I understand you right, that you want first attack damage, then bleed damage on top of that based on attack damage)

Acturally~ I'm not conbinning I read some other damage spells and it wrote like that, thus

<Attribute>DefendableDamage</Attribute>

with <Value> or <Multiplier>. If nothing added, use the attack defaultly. 

I mean, if I write something like <value>6</value> there, it will act perfectly that do 6 damage per round, however if I wrote it with Cauculate, nothing happened. It just take it as the normal damage.

About UnitStat_BonusBleed_L yes I created it, however it's 0.1 & 0.15, about 25%-35% damage taken each turn as bleed damage.

Change

<Attribute>DefendableDamage</Attribute>

to

<Attribute>CurHealth</Attribute>

with the edit to

        <Calculate InternalName="Calc" ValueOwner="CastingUnit">
            <Expression><![CDATA[[UnitStat_CombinedAttack] * -1]]></Expression>
        </Calculate>

I created an ability that works but only in the unit display not in game. I'm not at home currently but I created an ability that autocasts a spell that gives a unit double HP during combat. In the unit display, it is reading properly, however in the gameplay display and in actuality, the unit still has it's original HP total. If it sounds confusing, I'll pop up my code in a few hours when I'm off. It works as far as the unit display, it just doesn't actually work.

Trained units are supposed to have no chance to crit ever. This may well override their actual unitstat.

Hey guys. I'm having yet another problem with disabling core objects from the mods folder. I was able to squash improvements through a tech prereq, but I'm having trouble doing the same for faction abilities. Specifically, I'd like to block Death Worship, but copying/pasting to the mod folder and requiring the Never tech doesn't seem to work for me. Anyone have any insight?

Okay folks, I'm stumped. How can I manipulate the animation packs to have a clothpose for my demons? I am using the superdemon skeletons with the superdemon animation pack, but I can't get any of them to appear correctly during sovereign customization,  to appear on a background card, etc. Please help.

While going through the core game files. It doesn't appear that any weapon or armor is using the other damage types, like blunt or slashing nor the defense to those. All Items just do Pierce and Pierce armor. Was there a reason for this? Basically I am trying to work on a larger scale mod, Based off of the Eberron Campaign Setting. I want some armors and even Monsters to be more resistant or even immune to certain Damage types. Is there a way to do this also make them take extra damage from other damage types? I have never made a mod before but have experience programming video games and scripting and so far this things have been easy but I am just wondering if things are possible.

I have made limited ranged weapons ei Thrown Daggers, Hammers, and Javelin that can be used as melee or thrown. Is it possible to add a accuracy and damage reduction if you attempt to use these skills at melee range?

I also want to make a custom Class. Can I keep the original classes and add additional ones without to much trouble? I wanted to make an Alchemist class that gets abilities to throw flasks that can do different effects like Damage, Healing or even dazing.

Any help would be amazing. I have been stumped on a few things and just found it curious that the core files only used the UnitStat_Attack_Pierce for none magical weapon damage.

Got it. I've been modding a majority of the weapons anyway. To remove the core weapons without actually removing them from the core file is just need to Make the Item not equip-able and not obtainable correct? The range thing isn't that big of a deal though. I also see they removed the weight of equipment. Can I re add the weight and add an encumbrance that slows down both moves and initiative? I haven't seen anything that really does this and would like to add this feature. As far as AI goes will they use the limited ranged attacks I created. I just used the code from the throwing knifes while changing the range and damage a little.

I wasnt sure if they completely removed it or not. thank you for all the help. i really do appreciate it.