Can normal army take out Sphinx pretender?

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Chazar said:

There definitely some passage inside the manual talking about a penetration chance of x% if fatigue is over y, where I believe y to be 80. However, since I am currently moving I wont have my manual available until 3 more weeks, so I cant check myself.

Here is a passage from page 15:

A high fatigue also gives attackers a chance to find weaknesses in the exhausted unit's armor, reducing Protection by half for that attack.

There is no special treatment mentioned for unconscious units. So, you're right that Protection can be reduced by fatigue, but it doesn't drop to zero.

[Edi]

Easiest way to take down a sphinx in combat: dusk daggers and gate cleavers. Both cause armor negating damage, and tossing a squad of mid to high level thugs armed with these weapons will chop the sphinx up in no time. Especially the gate cleaver, 29 armor negating damage is quite a wallop. Machaka should have no problem producing either one of these, as gate cleavers are earth only and dusk daggers are earth/astral, so you just need a random astral pick for black sorcerer.

Edi

[Vicious Love]

Edi said:
Easiest way to take down a sphinx in combat: dusk daggers and gate cleavers. Both cause armor negating damage, and tossing a squad of mid to high level thugs armed with these weapons will chop the sphinx up in no time. Especially the gate cleaver, 29 armor negating damage is quite a wallop.

Right, Gate Cleavers, not Hammers of the Mountains. My mistake, I got the two mixed up.

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Speaking of armour negation, does Astral Weapon make your weapon AN or only AP? Does it affect ALL weapons?

CC

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AN. I thought it affected all weapons but I've never tried a ranged weapon with it.