Warcraft III Damage Tutorial

Vers. 1.0 (09-22-04) WARCRAFT III DAMAGE TUTORIAL BACKGROUND This tutorial will discuss the amount of damage sustained by a unit from a given attack and the parameters that can be changed in the WE that influence the amount of damage sustained. This information is useful to achieve the best balance between units in any map. I will also discuss which factors do not appear to have any influence on the amount of damage sustained, but would at first appear to do so based on their WE name. I will not discuss in detail the parameters that influence the attack damage value (i.e. the amount of the attack such as 5-10) of any unit, and only generally discuss the types of attacks (i.e., Pierce, Chaos, Siege, etc.) to the extent they affect the amount of damage inflicted. I will also not discuss area-of-effect or other attack-related parameters that modify the initial damage value that could be inflicted on a unit. Rather, I focus here on the defensive factors that increase or reduce this initial value. I hope to look at other attack factors in a later tutorial. Most of the information I present has been obtained through trial-and-error play testing and experimentally verified. I welcome any comments, suggestions, or corrections to this information as there are some idiosyncrasies that I have discovered and cannot explain. DEFENSE BASICS Each unit in WC3 includes a number of parameters that affect the amount of damage that is sustained by the ...