Question about a Unit attribute

[Vesinger]

Dear Game Designers:

I have a question regarding a Unit Attribute, see below:

stat_sec 11, 0, no, 0, 0, melee, simple, piercing, spear, 0 ,0.125

What does the last "0.125" mean? I read the descr file that the "spear" means weapon sound type. The next "0" means the min delay between attacks. However that "0.125" was not explained. I found that this number differs between most units.

Thanks a lot!

[Drag0nUL]

That number is the lethality of the weapon. Not sure what that means (I assume it's the probablity that a 'hit' will also kill the enemy) but the bigger it is, the faster will the unit kill enemies.

[mcantu]

its the percent chance that a hit will result in a kill...

[athanaric]

Out of curiosity, can you tell me what unit you are referring to specifically? I'm wondering because all infantry spears in EB have 0.13 lethality, except for pikes (0.15 for Speudogordoz and 0.17 for phalangites).

[Brave Brave Sir Robin]

Out of curiosity, can you tell me what unit you are referring to specifically? I'm wondering because all infantry spears in EB have 0.13 lethality, except for pikes (0.15 for Speudogordoz and 0.17 for phalangites).

I believe all overhand spears have lethality of 0.13 while underhand spears are 0.125

[athanaric]

I believe all overhand spears have lethality of 0.13 while underhand spears are 0.125

Nope, all have 0.13. Except for the Gaesamica and Iabarannta apparently, they have 0.124 and 0.125 respectively. Looks like his unit was one of these two.

[B-Wing]

So a successful attack doesn't necessarily mean a kill? I didn't realize that. Though I guess that would explain how/why soldiers are sometimes knocked down or stunned. Well that's interesting. So I guess a unit's attack attribute isn't so important as the product of its attack and lethality?

[athanaric]

Attack is the likelihood of a hit, lethality determines if that hit will be deadly or not.