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Old July 27th, 2004, 08:02 PM
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Regarding Niefels and bane lords, I might note that they benefit differently from the same equipment in certain cases -- notably, bane lords ignore encumberance and rarely have much need for reinvigoration or life-draining items and can reasonably use much heavier armor. A bane lord has less reason to limit itself to a blood thorn or wraith sword, for instance.
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Regarding Niefels and bane lords, I might note that they benefit differently from the same equipment in certain cases -- notably, bane lords ignore encumberance and rarely have much need for reinvigoration or life-draining items and can reasonably use much heavier armor. A bane lord has less reason to limit itself to a blood thorn or wraith sword, for instance.
hm but a bane lord has 42 hp so if not hit e.g. by a niefel jarl with an an weapon he will not get killed by 1 hit or ?
so with the lifedrain weapon he has good chances to get to full hp again or ?

a wraith lord can naturally cast soul vortex so there is really little need for a life drain weapon i would agree
but for the bane lord i think it is in general quite useful + very cheap .
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hm but a bane lord has 42 hp so if not hit e.g. by a niefel jarl with an an weapon he will not get killed by 1 hit or ?
so with the lifedrain weapon he has good chances to get to full hp again or ?
Yes, a bane lord will be killed by a sngle hit from a gate cleaver wielded by a niefel jarl. That's 56 points of armor negating damage.

As a friendly aside, I'm thinking that English might be your second language. When asking a question you don't need to add the word "or" at the end. It would be more correct to say "So with the lifedrain weapon he has good chances to get to full hp again?"
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As a friendly aside, I'm thinking that English might be your second language. When asking a question you don't need to add the word "or" at the end. It would be more correct to say "So with the lifedrain weapon he has good chances to get to full hp again?"
yeah you guessed right . thnx for that tip .
will be hard to get rid off though .
because in german to pronounce a question you always use the word "oder" for which or is the correct english translation .
that's another problem with german :
our language is quite long most 1 : 1 translated books from english to german or the other way round the german book has about 50% more pages but in both books stands EXACTLY the same .

as you may have noticed my Posts are often very long ^^ . that's partially because we germans use more words and make longer sentences and partially because i tend to ramble sometimes much more than the "average" german .
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Yes, a bane lord will be killed by a sngle hit from a gate cleaver wielded by a niefel jarl. That's 56 points of armor negating damage.
btw is here a good statistician who could make a small chart for me where some hitting odd percentages are shown ?

like hitting chance vs
-20 higher
-19 higher
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-20 lower defensive rating .

would be really helpful i think .
if something like this already exists somewhere here on the Boards give me a link plz .

cause i wanna e.g. figure out if i could "swarm" niefel jarls then with an undead horde or something similiar and how my odds are then .
my second main implementation will be then to see what it really means for hitting chances in sc vs sc / semi-sc's if one has a e.g. 2 lower attack rating than his opponents defense rating .
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i tend to ramble sometimes much more than the "average" german .
Yikes! That's really bad then.
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btw is here a good statistician who could make a small chart for me where some hitting odd percentages are shown ?
Saber Cherry has already done something along the lines of what you seek: Dominions II Combat Simulator v41

It's not a chart of to-hit chances, but a chart of what unit will statistically defeat another unit.
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