Attributes

Units and heroes in Endless Legend have attributes that determine their performance in combat and on the world map. Each unit or hero has a set of base attributes, which are then modified by a wide variety of other mechanics including experience, equipment, skills, capacities, and research.

List of Attributes

Attribute Name	Effect
Life	If this reaches 0, the unit is killed. By default, (non- Broken Lords) units regenerate 5% health per turn. Standing on a owned city, or being garrisoned, increases this to 10%. Various other effects, like Watchtowers, can boost this amount.
Defense	The ability of the unit to defend itself. A unit with higher will turn enemy hits into grazes and misses more often.
Damage	The amount of damage inflicted on a standard hit. Modified by attack and defense, which determine the chance of a miss, partial hit, standard hit, or critical hit.
Attack	The ability of the unit to attack successfully. A unit with higher will successfully hit and critically hit more often.
Initiative	How early this unit will act in combat. A unit with higher initiative will act before one with lower initiative. Ties are broken by Morale.
Range	The distance in tiles that a unit can reach with their attack. Melee ( Infantry, Cavalry, and Flying) units have a range of 1. Ranged ( Ranged and Support) units have higher range, usually 3.
Speed	How many movement points this unit can move per turn on the world map. Affected by terrain. An army can only move as fast as its slowest unit. See also the table below.
Battle Speed	How many movement points this unit can move per round in combat. Affected by terrain. Unlike Speed, Battle Speed is usually only displayed during combat. See also the table below.
Vision	The number of tiles a unit can see around them on the world map. Affected by terrain and weather. The Fly and True Sight capacities enable a unit to ignore terrain sight penalties.

See Units/Comparison Table and Heroes/Comparison Table for tables comparing unit and hero base attributes.

Base Movement Speed

A unit's base Speed and Battle Speed speed are usually determined by its unit class:

Class
Infantry	4	2
Ranged	4	2
Support	4	2
Flying	6	3
Cavalry	6	4

There are some exceptions to the values above, due to capacities and other effects. For example, Roving Clans and Allayi units and heroes tend to have higher base / than other factions', while Morgawr units and heroes tend to be slower.

Attack and Defense

The ratio between the attacker's Attack and the defender's Defense determines the probability of (critically) hitting or (critically) missing, as seen in the chart below:

Each type of hit multiplies the unit's base Damage:

Type	Multiplier
Standard hit	100%
Critical hit	150%
Graze / standard miss	50%
Critical miss	0%

As the ratio of Attack to Defense increases, so does the expected damage dealt:

/ Ratio	Expected
2 / 3 or lower	37.5%
1	80%
3 / 2 or higher	110%

Between 2 / 3 and 3 / 2, the multiplier increases (slightly less than) linearly.

The interaction of and makes unit quality very important:

• Because the expected damage multiplier nearly triples, from 37.5% to 110%, it is highly efficient to invest in / strategic resource weapons to overpower enemy defenses.
• The opposite is also true. If the attacker's is equal to the defender's then, according to the chart above, the attack will do on average 80% damage. However, if the defender has the Block 3 Capacity, their will increase by 30% when attacked, which reduces the expected damage to 55%. This makes the shield an especially powerful defensive item.

Morale

Morale is a modifier to Attack and Defense, calculated based on the number of units adjacent to a given unit:

• A unit has 0 by default and gains +1 for every adjacent friendly unit. For example, 2 adjacent units give +1 to each other, and 3 units in a triangle give +2 to each other.
• Every Ranged and Support unit has a capacity that reduces its by -1 for every adjacent enemy unit.
• Each point of increases and by +15%. Negative morale will likewise reduce / by 15% per point.
• is capped to between +6 and -6, and any additional modifiers are ignored.
• If two units have the same Initiative, is used to determine who will act first. If both have the same and , they will act in random order.

Computing Attributes

A unit's attributes are generally computed in three steps. First, base and equipment attributes are calculated. Then these are combined to compute total attributes.

Base attributes

experience modifier = 20% per level for units or 10% per level for heroes
equipment modifier  = sum of all percentage multipliers from equipment
base attributes     = unit's starting attributes without any equipment or capacities
                    × (1 + experience modifier)
                    × (1 + equipment modifier)

Equipment attributes

equipment attributes = equipment's starting attributes without any capacities
                     × (1 + strategic resource efficiency from Technolover capacity)

Total attributes

The following are summed together:

• Base attributes
• Equipment attributes
• Additive bonuses from hero skills
• Additive bonuses from capacities

Percentage modifiers are then summed together and applied:

• Hero skills
• Morale (15% per point)
• Unit capacities, including those resulting from unit actions and from equipment
• Technologies
• Faction traits
• Bonuses from assimilated Minor Factions
• Other empire-wide effects

See also

• Strategy Guide/Combat