How to calculate longbow damage vs. MAA +2 ranged armor

[Joshsquash8054]

If one longbow (6 attack) shot against a MAA with +2 ranged armor (6 ranged armor total) shouldn’t the total damage be 0?

What if 3 longbows attacked at once? Shouldn’t that also be 0?

[Hammerfaust7583]

should be, yes. unless you upgrade range dmg

[joanka93val]

If damage less than 1 then damage = 1.

This is the actual logic of the game, it’s impossible to deal less than 1 damage, so if enemy has more armor than your damage, you will deal 1 damage.

[StigmaticNewt7]

Interesting math. So financially if my sole objective is to protect my MAA in castle from longbows it doesn’t even make sense to spend resources on wedge rivets.

[Capsaicin4901]

@joanka93val

If damage less than 1 then damage = 1

^ This

Armor at most reduces damage to 1, not lower.

@StigmaticNewt7

Interesting math. So financially if my sole objective is to protect my MAA in castle from longbows it doesn’t even make sense to spend resources on wedge rivets.

Assuming the longbows don’t get upgrades to their damage, then yes! But it would be a very bad objective!

[Shneider177]

When Armor Equals or Exceeds DMG

Currently the game does NOT incorporate fractional damage. Instead whenever armor equals or exceeds in coming attack power the damage received os always at a 1. For examples: feudal zhuge nu with their 4 arrow damage and 3 burst volleys vs an early knight’s 3 + 1 range armor will inflict 3 damage to the knight every 3 burst volleys. The same is true with zhuge nu vs a house which has 50 eange armor; the zhuge nu will inflict 3 damage per 3 burst volleys. I desire the devs enact a radical chang…

[CarryPotter29]

That’s why this system is outdated and sucks.
They should have used the percentage based AoE3 system.