MA Abysia: The Burninator Flies Again

[OmikronWarrior]

Darkness quarters base precision. I suppose if the enemy has a lot of archers and you have a lot of troops the arrows missing by 10 or more squares will still land on some troops doing damage. Or using Wind Guide to bring Precision back up to sane levels. Ditto with evocations. Mostly, I suspect Darkness does a fine job in reducing enemy archers' effectiveness.

[chrispedersen]

MAximum distance to miss by never exceeds actual distance.
The amount missed by will also be a bell curve - so the amount missed by is actually fairly small.

When an archer mass targets a large mass of enemy troops, the vast majority of missiles target the middle of the enemy lines (especially if there is the prospect of causing friendly casualties).

This tendency *increases* as the distance decreases.

Do a straightline comparison between combats (for example by introducing a unit that autocasts darkness) and you will see that for many combats darkness makes essentially no difference in combat results.