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    Default What determines how good a unit is?

    I have long been aware that there is much more to unit effectiveness than just their attack, defense, and charge power. However, after I discovered a source that quantifies each unit's morale, range, and bonuses it still seemed like there are more variables to unit strength. For instance Garamantine infantry seems to be better than their low attack, defense and average morale suggests. Am I wrong about all of this or is there really more to unit effectiveness?

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    Default Re: What determines how good a unit is?

    There's the weapon lethality and the unit mass (how good they are at pushing through the enemy formation). These stats are available on the unit cards, located in your documentation folder in the RTW\EB folder.
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    Default Re: What determines how good a unit is?

    Are the attack and defense numbers still the most important by far or do any of the other variables approach their significance?

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    Default Re: What determines how good a unit is?

    lethality plays a very important role in EB: if there are 2 units with a very similar attack value (let's say 10) but one has daggers (0.04 lethality) and the other has longswords (0.225 lethality), the second one kills enemy units a lot faster then the first one and in the end is much more valuable. AP (armor piercing) is another value that affects attack, its value depens on the enemies that you are facing (heavy armored armies can suffer a lot from AP weapons). Morale is valuable but not so much in EB as in vanilla IMHO, unless you play on high/very high on battles and you are forced to sustain heavy casualities, but it's still important when the unit is facing multiple or superior units (playing with Roman legions and some hellenistic-estern levy is still very different)

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    Default Re: What determines how good a unit is?

    Sorry to go a little off topic, but how important are the different defensive stats? Like which is more important, armor, shield, or skill or are they all the same?

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    Default Re: What determines how good a unit is?

    Quote Originally Posted by BerkeleyBoi
    Sorry to go a little off topic, but how important are the different defensive stats? Like which is more important, armor, shield, or skill or are they all the same?
    Well, it depends on the situation. Armor is the best of the three defensive stats except against AP attacks; AP attacks ignore 50% of the armor stat. Armor protects against both ranged and melee attacks from every direction.
    The shield rating is only used against attacks (both ranged and melee) from the front and the left; it does not protect the right side or the rear at all. The defense skill only protects against melee attacks.
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