(Aside from Curse, again) It's a weird, somewhat unintuitive dynamic, but it adds some nuance to the game. well, same thing: it's Morale can't get worse. This isn't a tug-of-war game that scales infinitely: once a unit has two negative effects, their Morale will never get worse unless it's by losing the protection from a positive effect, and once a unit has two positive effects.

Or, if we failed to ever use Battle Cry in the first place, our flaming and Doomed Beholder stack is now very unhappy.Ī third negative effect won't worsen the Morale any further (Unless it's Curse, whose specific effect is -1 Morale), regardless of whether we say it's stacked on top of two others with no positive effect or with one or more positive effects. (Though of course they do still get the Initiative boost) Alternatively, maybe an Evil Gremlin drops Doom on them while Battle Cry and the Burning are still applying -now the Beholders are back to being unhappy.

Huzzah! They are no longer sad! Then the fire goes out, but the Battle Cry is still benefiting the Beholders -they remain at 0 Morale, instead of appreciating our hard work in making them move earlier in the turn. If we apply a positive effect to the Beholder stack -Battle Cry, say- now the Beholder stack returns to its previous Morale, most likely of 0. This makes it unhappy, lowering its Attack, Defense, and crit chance. (ie a positive effect is not +1 Morale: it's just canceling the -1 from a negative effect)Ĭoncrete example: say we have a Beholder stack that's on fire. Note that they only cancel out the Morale penalty from negative effects they can't be used to compensate for Morale penalties caused by racial tensions, and they also can't be used to improve Morale in a more general sense. Negative effects impose -1 Morale per each effect, to a limit of -2, while positive effects can be used to cancel this Morale penalty out, with each positive effect canceling a negative effect's Morale penalty. (Armored Princess' -1 Morale is just as effective there as The Legend's -2, and AP's -2 is more pronounced than The Legend's -3!) This makes it more important than ever to avoid eg splashing Cannoneers into your Elven army.Īnother change to Morale in Armored Princess is that it now interacts with positive effects and negative effects. Short version: positive Morale has a less pronounced impact on crit chance, while negative Morale has a much more pronounced impact on Attack and Defense. +3 Morale: +30% to Attack and Defense, and crit chance is increased by 40%. +2 Morale: +20% to Attack and Defense, and crit chance is increased by 30%. +1 Morale: +10% to Attack and Defense, and crit chance is increased by 20%. 1 Morale: -20% to Attack and Defense, and crit chance is reduced by 25%. 2 Morale: -35% to Attack and Defense, and crit chance is halved. 3 Morale or worse: -50% to Attack and Defense, and crit chance is 0. Morale still operates in seven tiers, but now its effects go like this: Some changed number points for general illumination: As such, if you do play the base campaign, you may find that my analysis is inconsistent with your experience -Favorite Enemy being a kind of Human racial trait, for example, is not in the base campaign. Simple as that.Īs previously stated, I'm going by Orcs on the March for everything, and mostly not bothering to note the differences. A crit is simply always 150% of maximum damage -if your highest damage roll against a target is 200 damage, you do 300 damage on a crit. As such, it's not worth paying significant attention to it, not even if you're eg trying to stack crit boosters in hopes of getting to 100%.Ĭrit damage itself has been overhauled so that your current Rage no longer factors into the damage amount. Just like in The Legend, the values always stay in a very low range that cannot be counted on, bar assorted Abilities and the occasional Talent, many of which make the base number entirely irrelevant. Although Armored Princess now displays crit chance in the interface, I'm still not incorporating it into my listings.

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