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["wl-zocker" <wl-zocker@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello together,

I am a bit confused what the defense value of the soldier means exactly:
- The tutorial states that the damage is reduced by a certain value (e.g. 5) for every attack that hits the soldier. But that would mean that an untrained soldier would never be able to kill an Atlantean soldier trained in defense (see https://wl.widelands.org/wiki/SoldierLevels/). There is no percent sign after the value in this table (evade has), this implies that the value is absolute.
- On the other hand, the text below the table states that those values are relative, e.g. “value 3, only 97% of damage is taken”.

Which way is used in the game to calculate the damage a soldier takes?

Thank you for your answer,

wl-zocker