Curse of Stones

[MaxWilson]

Originally Posted by Sombre

Not if he has absurd defence and the defence malus from fatigue isn't real.

I have no reason to believe it isn't, just haven't seen it on unit screens. That's true of communion path boosts and other things like that though.

It's not really a penalty to defense, it's just that the attack/defense opposed rolls factor in fatigue as well as attack and defense. IIRC the formula is something like this:

Attacker's attack + DRN - Attack's fatigue/20 vs. Defender's defense + DRN - Defender's fatigue/10

Defense degrades faster than attack, which contributes[1] to the reason long battles between heavy infantry have sharply-increased casualty rates after a few rounds. Effectively, both sides start getting an attack bonus once everyone is past 20 fatigue.

-Max

[1] Along with the crit-hits, which are actually more important.