Units Abilities

As promised...

Humans

Light Infantry: Higher Purpose
Ranged Unit: Rapid Fire
Heavy Infantry: Bravery
Cavalry: Impact Damage
Special: Crush

Elves

Light Infantry: Eleron's Shield
Ranged Unit: Rapid Fire
Heavy Infantry: Fear
Cavalry: Impact Damage
Special: Regeneration

Dwarves

Light Infantry: Hatred
Ranged Unit: Armor Penetration
Heavy Infantry: Mithril Armor
Cavalry: Fear
Special: Rage


Orcs

Light Infantry: Unstoppable Charge
Ranged Unit: Poison
Heavy Infantry: Rage
Cavalry: Impact Damage
Special: Regeneration


Undead

Light Infantry: Raise Dead
Ranged Unit: Plague
Heavy Infantry: Fear
Cavalry: Dark Gift
Special: Fear


Dark Legion

Light Infantry: Hatred
Ranged Unit: Armor Penetration
Heavy Infantry: Fear
Cavalry: Dark Gift
Special: Terror

CycLonite wrote:

Do the units receive more abilities than one? Cause the Unit Display in Army Tab shows 3 Special Ability place holders. So far we only have 1 known for each.

Also can you elaborate on how the Special Abilities work. Some make sense. However, Rapid Fire - how does this work? Isn't the Elven Reaction time lower than all other Units. So even without Rapid Fire the Elves are going to be shooting faster.

PS: I am bored, waiting for the reset.

The short answer is "Yes they do!". The long answer is that special items will also grant special abilities to the wielder, which is why all units have 3 abilities slots.

There exist special abilities which are passive and then there are others which are triggered under specific conditions.

For example, Armor Piercing and Rapid Fire are passive abilities, while Impact Damage is triggered when a cavalry unit charges an enemy unit.

There is a reaction for melee and then a reaction for missile which is always slower than melee for obvious reasons. Elves have a faster missile reaction as a default but with Rapid Fire their missile reaction becomes even faster...

P.S. We are too, as everything is ready and we are waiting for the green light. However, we are currently optimizing several aspects of the game, adding more stuff and preparing the ground for guilds and guild warfare.

Translation:

Undead
Light Infantry: 20/25/30% chance to avoid damage
Archers: 5/10/20 strength related to missile damage
Heavy Infantry: Enemy Melee need to pass morale check or suffer 10/20/30 melee penalty for 20 secs
Cavalry: 25/35/45% chance of doing more damage

Btw rapid fire makes Heroes welcome in Elf/Human armies.

For the rest of the races not so much. While he will help if the unit is used wrong (and get meleed), he will hit with 30 less missile related strength (in my case).

Now even if my hero could equip a bow of uberplague with +40 missile strength, whouldn't the elf hero be able to equip that AND get rapid fire?

Not that i have trouble with the idea of elves dominating the archery department but they don't exaclty lack anywhere else.

Compiled this table of all abilities and bonuses when I was researching / asking around about abilities in game:

Google Spreadsheet Link:

Code:

goo.gl/Yzr1T

docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0ArV4Zx5QVPN0dGVGWEYzTlhaWmtKUDl6VUxvcGJjemc&gid=2

Pretty sure its all accurate, but please let me know if I need to fix anything.

Hegorn wrote:

Compiled this table of all abilities and bonuses when I was researching / asking around about abilities in game:

Google Spreadsheet Link:

Code:

goo.gl/Yzr1T

docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0ArV4Zx5QVPN0dGVGWEYzTlhaWmtKUDl6VUxvcGJjemc&gid=2

Pretty sure its all accurate, but please let me know if I need to fix anything.

Incredible work... "claps"

A few comments:

- Impact Damage: The unit with Impact Damage inflicts automatic hits upon impact, with no need of "Check to Hit" and the number of automatic hits increases with the level.

- Fear: The unit with Fear will force a Morale Check to the enemy unit and if it fails it will receive a penalty to its Melee for a few rounds, NOT its Morale.

- Dark Gift: The unit with Dark Gift has an X probability to re-roll failed Check to Hit rolls at that round.

Very good work Hegorn, very good work..

Niiiiiiiice
that will help a lot for the wiki

RuneSlayer wrote:

A few comments:

- Impact Damage: The unit with Impact Damage inflicts automatic hits upon impact, with no need of "Check to Hit" and the number of automatic hits increases with the level.

- Fear: The unit with Fear will force a Morale Check to the enemy unit and if it fails it will receive a penalty to its Melee for a few rounds, NOT its Morale.

- Dark Gift: The unit with Dark Gift has an X probability to re-roll failed Check to Hit rolls at that round.

Updated with that info. Thanks!

A couple questions too:
- Impact Damage's automatic hits are only on the first X rounds of initial combat? how many per level?
- Do you mean that Dark Gift is not always active? What causes it to proc?

Quote :

- Impact Damage's automatic hits are only on the first X rounds of initial combat? how many per level?

1-6 , 2-8, 3-12 and only on impact

Quote :

- Do you mean that Dark Gift is not always active? What causes it to proc?

Not always active. It is activated on a probability. 25%, 35%, 45%

RuneSlayer wrote:

Quote :

- Impact Damage's automatic hits are only on the first X rounds of initial combat? how many per level?

1-6 , 2-8, 3-12 and only on impact

So just to make sure I have this completely clear:
In the first round of combat after charging, up to 6/8/12 strikes automatically hit and get an added 40/50/60 strength.

Hegorn wrote:

RuneSlayer wrote:

Quote :

- Impact Damage's automatic hits are only on the first X rounds of initial combat? how many per level?

1-6 , 2-8, 3-12 and only on impact

So just to make sure I have this completely clear:
In the first round of combat after charging, up to 6/8/12 strikes automatically hit and get an added 40/50/60 strength.

That is correct. Although the hits are automatically inflicted, they still need to go through Endurance and Armor, but the added Strength really helps.

RuneSlayer wrote:

Hegorn wrote:

RuneSlayer wrote:

Quote :

- Impact Damage's automatic hits are only on the first X rounds of initial combat? how many per level?

1-6 , 2-8, 3-12 and only on impact

So just to make sure I have this completely clear:
In the first round of combat after charging, up to 6/8/12 strikes automatically hit and get an added 40/50/60 strength.

That is correct. Although the hits are automatically inflicted, they still need to go through Endurance and Armor, but the added Strength really helps.

Got it. Thanks.

What if there are not enough units to attack that many times in one round? i.e. 4 unit cav would be doubly more likely to reach the cap of 12 hits vs the 2 unit cav. Or am I missing something?

Hegorn wrote:

RuneSlayer wrote:

Hegorn wrote:

RuneSlayer wrote:

Quote :

- Impact Damage's automatic hits are only on the first X rounds of initial combat? how many per level?

1-6 , 2-8, 3-12 and only on impact

So just to make sure I have this completely clear:
In the first round of combat after charging, up to 6/8/12 strikes automatically hit and get an added 40/50/60 strength.

That is correct. Although the hits are automatically inflicted, they still need to go through Endurance and Armor, but the added Strength really helps.

Got it. Thanks.

What if there are not enough units to attack that many times in one round? i.e. 4 unit cav would be doubly more likely to reach the cap of 12 hits vs the 2 unit cav. Or am I missing something?

Wrong, but some things I will leave to you to find out.

Heh. Alright. Thanks for the info.

...Damn.. and I was on a roll too.

whoa whoa whoa, so items will grant new passive/active abilities ? And these items are NOT racial ? I dunno if i should be excited or worried at the prospect of a pool of universal abilities.