Rain of stones, and gifts from the sky

[PyroStock]

Fal said:
not true, protection definitely helps against RoS, but from what I've seen damage varies, some units take more damage than they are suppose to, whereas some units take no damage.

How big is that DRN roll? Does the damage vary over 2000 since Twan had his Machakas at 2000 protection?

[Edi]

RoS is more likely to be a head hit, I think, so unhelmeted units suffer more.

[Fal]

Hmm, not sure about that Edi, I've been using fog warrior + rain of stone constantly in several MP games. from what I've observed it's not helmet that's making the difference, I've seen, for several times, unarmored mages survive two rain of stones.

Pyrostock, Twan meant he made a game with 2000 units with protection of zero.

[PyroStock]

Twice I cast RoS with mages (seperate battles) who had head (and body) protection over 30 and one got wounded for 5 and the other died (9hp mage). IF RoS isn't armor piercing/negating as the spell suggests than the DRN is pushing the physical damage over 40.

[Twan]

I am sure RoS is not armor negating.

In a recent game I've used army of gold + 3x rain of stones without fog warriors, and lost 0 mage / 40+, when my opponent lost all he had.

If your wounded mages were the rain of stones casters, and you used the spell with just one gem (= 100 fatigue), it may explain the huge critical dammages.

[Fal]

yep armor definitely helps against RoS. But yes Twan that could be one explanation, the fatigue of your caster is affecting the effectiveness (i.e. physical damage/precision) of the spell.

[PyroStock]

Twan said:
If your wounded mages were the rain of stones casters, and you used the spell with just one gem (= 100 fatigue), it may explain the huge critical dammages.

They were E4 mages with ~80fatigue after RoS. Perhaps I underestimated critical damage potential from fatigue.

[Dedas]

If you read the manual you will understand why fatigue is very, very dangerous.

[Lingchih]

Read the manual? There's a novel idea.