Poison weapons

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Recently I've noticed just how powerful weapons with a poison secondary effect are, particularly missile weapons. It seems that as long as they hit they deal their poison damage, regardless of whether they penetrate armour or even get parried by a shield. So you have a case where poison bows like those used by sauromatia are actually ideally suited to killing tower shielded heavy infantry and stuff with impenetrable protection. This really doesn't make much sense to me. I modded some blowpipes with poison for my lizardman nation and they were ripping through heavily armoured guys far too fast.

Would people here support a change so certain poison damage is only inflicted if the initial mundane damage punches past armour and parry? Obviously for stuff like poison slings it doesn't need to get past the armour - fair enough. But getting poisoned by a poison arrow bouncing off your shield or a blowdart pinging off your stone skin is pretty ridiculous.

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It also has the added bonus of stripping glamour along with the hitpoints.

Which also doesn't make alot of sense.

[Renojustin]

Screaming and writhing from the pain of the poison just isn't very glamorous.

I was pretty sure that the weapon has to deal at least 1 point of damage for the poison to take effect.

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Renojustin said:
Screaming and writhing from the pain of the poison just isn't very glamorous.

I was pretty sure that the weapon has to deal at least 1 point of damage for the poison to take effect.

No, it doesn't. The poison from arrows affects the unit even when no damage is taken.

[Renojustin]

Definitely seems like a problem to me then; doesn't make sense, and too powerful.

Poison bow archers are awesome enough as it is. If they were supposed to be this powerful, up the poison damage IF it ever gets through, but not if it boinks off your shield or armor to begin with.

[calmon]

Why doesn't make sence? Arrows with small pouches of poison which explodes in clouds after hitting the ground.