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    Default Armour, Archers and Defense

    I'm a little puzzled about how exactly Armour and Defense works, as well as how these starts interact with ranged attacks.

    I get that higher defense means the unit is less likely to die in combat. I also understand that Armour adds to your units Defense. 1 point of armour = +1 defense.

    What I'm not sure of is how this works with archers. Is it your overall defense (inc. Armour modifiers) that matters against archers or just the units Armour stat?

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    Default Re: Armour, Archers and Defense

    If I'm not mistaken, Defense plays no part in the ranged attacks calculations, only Armor and Shield modifiers. The official MTW Guide book (one of the best I've seen published, most these days are total crap, written before the beta release ) had the melee combat equation in it, in full detail, I think it had the ranged equations as well. Frogbeastegg's guide might have them in it, you might want to check there.
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    Armour (inc shield) will relate to missile-resistance, "defence" to melee - which includes an "armour" element, but also figures in how well the unit fights.
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    Default Re: Armour, Archers and Defense

    Query: In RTW, are Rhodian Slingers more efficient at killing people than Cretian Archers?
    Query: Are the Armoured Hoplite of RTW as resistant to arrow fire than the Armoured Knights of M2TW?
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    Wrong forum, dude.

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    Default Re: Armour, Archers and Defense

    This is more an offense question about missile units.

    The unit stats guides that I've looked at - FBE's and the YAS one - seem to give only stats for melee for archers.

    How is the missile side handled - i.e. damage from projectile, AP Y/N, and range?

    Is there a unit guide that includes this?

    Can I read this in one of the game files? It's not something I see in CRUSADERS_UNIT_PROD11.txt - is it somewhere else?

    Am I missing something?

    I just feel like a noob sometimes ... and there's nothing wrong with being a noob. (In fact, I still encourage gaming friends to look at MTW - so many seem lost to WOW still - and noobs are to be cultivated, IMHO).

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