Defensive Strikes Mechanics

[Tasunke]

Units with blur. And exactly, no one is gonna get decimated by defensive Strikes any time soon.

 

[Breunor]

"Dec" is always a factor of 10(Decimal, Decapod, etc.) so it does indeed come from Latin. With the modern usage at least, losing 1/10th of something hardly seems like it was decimated. Losing 9/10ths, does... So I'm more inclined to go with the 10/100 version.

In Roman times, decimation was used as a punishment where they the Romans would kill one out of 10 men. The modern usage is not the same, but decimation literally did mean kill one in 10.

Best wishes,

Breunor

 

[Jarrema]

And i think the word come from the Roman punishment for cowardice in battle, where you killed every tenth soldier in the unit being punished.

I read "reduce by factor of ten" as reduce by 10%.

You are abolutely right.
I believe, that common usage of the word "Decimate" is dfferent now. It means something like "kill almost everyone", but it was a Roman punishment. Every tenth soldier was killed in the front of their unit. So, if a centurion "decimated" an unit of 100 men, he had killed 10 of them

 

[Old_Lion]

About the romans:
It was worse than that.
The punished legion was organised in ten columns, surronded by the "non coward" legions
One column was then designated, and the 9 others in the line had to kill their friend themselves.
If they did not comply fast, they were all killed by the other legions.

It was a terrible punition.

 

[Breez]

One point I didn't see mentioned here is that Defensive strikes CAN kill a unit.

If You unit attacks and but is already wounded, lets say is at 30% health and Arthendain gets off a strike that does greater than 30% damage the attacking unit will die from the defensive strike before combat with the defending unit is ever initiated

 

[Tasunke]

Interesting