Armor negating and penetrating?

[Wick]

damage = 2d6oe + weapon + strength - 2d6oe - (protection * X)
X = 1 normally, 1/2 if AP, 0 in AN.

[Carkaton]

are magical attacks calculated the same way? with the magic being weapon and no strength added of course.

[MaxWilson]

Almost. With magical attacks resistances come into play. I believe it's

damage = R*(2d6oe + magical base damage) - 2d6oe - (protection * X)

X = 1, 1/2 if AP, 0 if AN
R = 1, 0.5 if 50% resistant, 2 if 100% vulnerable, etc.

I'm not entirely positive about this (R may not apply to the 2d6oe term), and you can check it in the debug log if you want. Anyway, this means that 50% resistance will probably cut your damage by more than 50%.

-Max

[Endoperez]

Yeah, a similar formula is used for everything.

Magical weapons add strength when there's no "str not added" tag.
Magical bows have better chance of getting a hit through shield etc, as page 77 mentions.
Spells deal the damage listed in their description, with just Farstrike and perhaps Fists of Iron adding str. The little + after damage means that having more power in the path used in the spell's casting increases damage. Exactly how much varies depending on the spell, but it's about 1-3 points/extra level or so.

[Sombre]

Just to be clear, armour negating missile attacks can still be shield parried. So long as they /are/ missile attacks and not ranged aoes, certain spells etc.

Magical bows have a better chance of getting past shield parry? I had no idea. The things you learn.

[Endoperez]

2d6oe: 2 six-sided dice (numbered from 1 to 6) are rolled, and every 6 is rerolled. oe means open-endedness, or rerolling. The rerolled dice are actually numbered 0 to 5 to avoid every roll with a six always being at least seven.

Page 5 of your manual has comparison chart that can be used for this, as well as many other things. The adjustment in this case would be (weapon damage + strength) - (protection * x).

Shields:
Shields have their own parry value. If a hit is scored against a unit that would have missed if not for a shield, the shield's protection value is added to the unit's normal protection. So, unit with def 8 and parry 5 shield has defence 13. Unit with attack 10 will probably beat his shieldess defence (8) but not his parry-boosted defence (13), so his protection total has about 15 added to it, depending on the shield.
Shields have a chance of negating missile fire. This feature isn't affected by the shield's protection in any way, see pg 77.

Armor-piercing damage is dealt as if the target's protection value was only half of what it actually is, but this only affects that armor-piercing damage and not other types of damage dealt to the unit. For example, a sacred unit with spear and Fire 9 bless (deals 6 points of AP fire damage) deals str+3 damage from spear, and 6 AP damage from fire.

Armor-negating damage goes through all protection, including shield parry.



I don't know how rounding goes.