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Originally Posted by Kungfoo
The amount of blatantly incorrect statements that are being passed off as fact in these forums is staggering.
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Sounds like you're channeling Sombre / Calahan. That's cool if you're channeling those guys in the accuracy of your analysis as well...
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Originally Posted by Kungfoo
Defender (guy trying to repel): Attack rating + DRN
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Attacker (guy trying to get past the repel): Defense rating + DRN
If the defender wins, then:
Defender: Morale + DRN
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Attacker: Morale + DRN
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I don't actually know enough about the mechanic of repelling to know if this is accurate or not. However, the way you describe the morale check doesn't sound right to me.
If it worked the way you describe - as a contested morale check against the repeller's morale (instead of against a constant = 10 + diff in weapon lengths + DRN or something) having a repeller that was berserk (morale 99) would be a way to be nearly impervious to attacks in melee wouldn't it? Said berserker would need an attack value high enough to hit with each repel attempt (which granted is hard to do when completely surrounded if you don't have something like awe or the vine shield to reduce the number of incoming attacks), but if you could sort that out a repelling berserker would kick some serious butt against any non-berserk melee opponents. Even most mindless undead (morale 50) would be too scared to strike at the berserker (morale 99), because he has a spear and might poke them! Nothing scares undead like a berserker with a spear!
I'm not in front of the game at the moment, but a possible test of your interpretation of these rules might be:
Markata Scout with Berserker Pelt & boosted attack items (Ring of the Warrior, Burning Pearl), and a spear (Thorn Spear has low damage and only does poison, so use poison immune guys for)...
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Small group of non-berserk guys, using short(er) weapons (Soulless? Longdead?). If you use guys that have high prot here they shouldn't be easy for the Markata to kill, in spite of his high attack value (necessary for all the repels). Until the troops accumulate enough fatigue that is (so use undead).
So, who wins this fight? The Markata Scout Berserker, or the undead?
Don't know why this has to be a Markata in this test. I guess I just think it's a more epic matchup that way.
