Firepower+Armor+HP ?

[Ekmek]

Another game basics question...

I generally see little change between these three:


Firepower 1
Armor 1
MaxHP 10

Armor and firepower change but never HP, any one know why?

[Maquiladora]

From what i remember in combat armour basically acts as a multiplier for hitpoints. So 3 armour will basically equal 30hp for your unit when hitpoints is left at 10.

[realpolitic]

Is firepower a multiplier for attack/defence?

[Ekmek]

yeah, i think so. I upped the firepower on a a weak attack cataput andit does a lot of attack damage.


EDIT: a quick check through the code and it looks like firepower is used to determine hoe much HP is taken away when hit?

armydata GetArmytrength has this

			attack_strength += (sint32) (rec->GetAttack() * hitpoints * fire_power);
				defense_strength += (sint32) (rec->GetDefense() * hitpoints * fire_power);
				ranged_strength += (sint32) (rec->GetZBRangeAttack() * hitpoints * fire_power);

unitdata:bombard has this

	sint32 f = (sint32)(rec->GetFirepower() /  
		g_theUnitDB->Get(defender.GetType())->GetArmor());

and i see this

BOOL UnitData::FightOneLineDanceRangedAttack(Unit &defender)
{
	double d = defender.GetDefense(Unit(m_id));
	const UnitRecord *rec = g_theUnitDB->Get(m_type);
	double r = rec->GetZBRangeAttack();
	sint32 firepower = rec->GetFirepower();

	double chance = r / (r + d);

	
	if(!(rec->GetCanAttack() & defender.GetDBRec()->GetMovementType())) {
		return FALSE;
	}

	if(g_rand->Next(1000) < sint32(chance * 1000)) {
		if(firepower > 1) {
			defender.DeductHP(g_rand->Next(rec->GetFirepower() - 1) + 1);
		} else {
			defender.DeductHP(1);
		}
		return TRUE;
	}
	return FALSE;
}