Defense stat

[ArkhanTheBlack]

I just lost a pretender god (Lord of the wild) with a defense stat of 22 against some lousy wolf tribe warriors. My protection wasn't very good, but I simply don't understand why they were even able to hit me so often. They've an attack skill of just 11 with two daggers. I never had so much trouble with my Kraken although it had much less defense and the protection also wasn't better. Is this normal?

[Kristoffer O]

Every attack lowers defense. If you are attacked by a bunch of wolf tribe warriors your defence will quickly go down a lot. If three squares attacks you you will have 9*2 attacks on you. the first of these will be at def 22. The last will be at def 5.

[ArkhanTheBlack]

Okay, that means that protection is a lot more important than defense against enemy hordes. I didn't have my ethereal yet, so the high defense and luck wasn't enough. Well, learned another lesson... Thanks!

[MaxWilson]

Arkhan,

Possibly even more vital than Protection against hordes is the Encumbrance stat. Every time you make an attack, you get tired, and that affects your ability to make further attacks/defenses. Weapon length also has some bearing because it affects your chances to repeel (pg. 76 of manual explains). Kraken has a Length 3 weapon, so I suppose he might have been repelling attacks too.

I'm not sure whether a repelled attack still degrades your defense on the next attack.

-Max

[fictionfan]

So if say I give a unit the two axes of rulership.
This makes it so the guy atks 4 times because each axe atks twice. So if I then give him the stone bird it is 8 atks. If then I give him boots of quickness he does 16 atks. Does that mean that even if the enemy has a def of say 200 I will hit.
I don't really under stand how much the def is reduced my actking. Does my guys atk skill affect it.

[Wick]

Every attack in a round reduces the target's defense by two.
So the first attack will hit if (2d6oe + attack skill) > (2d6oe + defense skill) while the 16th attack will hit if (2d6oe + attack skill) > (2d6oe + defense skill - 30). So, no you still aren't touching to 200. :-)

[PvK]

Note this is one way it can be helpful to not fight alone but bring some friends along (especially on Guard Commander orders).