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Old December 10th, 2006, 11:42 AM
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Default Re: Missile vs Shield

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HoneyBadger said:
I'm playing early age Ermor now, which has loads of tower shields, and I agree, while they do seem to shrug off more arrows than any other nation, I regularly suffer some damage from archers, and possibly more damage from short range attacks like sticks and stones. I suspect there may be another factor at hand. One thing to keep in mind though, is the random element-with 100 arrows each having a base 1% chance to hit, that's 1 arrow hitting, but the random rolls in this game add a whole other element there. I don't know from the above formula whether or not there's randomness involved in calculating whether a striking arrow actually penetrates and hits, but I'd bet on it, and also on range having an effect.
I used the table that takes the randomness of rolls into account.

I just did the math and didn't test it; it's nice to hear that this isn't as severe as the math would suggest.
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