What determines how good a unit is?

**beatoangelico** · 11-13-2007, 14:25

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)

**BerkeleyBoi** · 11-13-2007, 16:18

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?

**Sakkura** · 11-13-2007, 16:27

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.

**Diamondj** · 11-13-2007, 21:20

Originally Posted by Sakkura

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.

Does that mean armour-piercing weapons don't affect shields at all?

**Sakkura** · 11-13-2007, 21:24

Originally Posted by Diamondj

Does that mean armour-piercing weapons don't affect shields at all?

Uhh, I'm not 100% on this but I believe they halve the contribution from the shield as well. Of course, that only applies when attacking from the left or the front; the shield is always ignored when attacking from the right or from behind.