I tried to find any detailed source of information about battle mechanic and failed. I'll try to describe it as I understand it now and will be pleased if someone tell me is it right, or not. Hope it'll be easier for everyone.

Before I'll begin I want to appologize for mistakes. English is not my native language, but i'm ready to fix mistaces in text if someone point them out for me.



Hitting chance

Every weapon has it's own accuracy for every phase, let's call it base_accuracy

and phase_accuracy which based on effective range selected for design and current phase of battle.

Accuracity also could be changed by race abilities, heroes and cards. let's called it bonus_accuracy



Evasion of target is displayed in "Ship designer" based on modules. Let's call it base_evasion

It could be increased by race abilities, heroes and cards (bonus_evasion)

And finaly evasion decreased by 5% after every evasion, this is disorientation_evasion (negative value)



Finally chance_to_hit as I understand is:

(base_accuracy + bonus_accuracy) * phase_accuracy - (base_evasion + bonus_evasion + disorientation_evasion)

Every part of this formula could have too high or too low values and the result of formula too. So they are probably capped in some combination. wiki says that whole "chance to hit" capped between 10%-90%, but I'm not sure about it. And the first question is "How chance to hit, accuracy and evade capped?"



As I know disorientation_evasion resetes for every round, but I can't find any information about what does "evasion" mean. Let's consider ship with 5 meele cannons. Is it 5 salvos which could be eveided (based on number of modules) or 65 (based on numberpersalvo value of module) or 325 as their multiplication? If 65 or 325 shots could be evaded - then disorientation_evasion will hit -100% value really fast, and chance_to_hit for almost all other shots will be 100% or more, or 90% if it's capped. So the second question is "how many shots per round could be evaded?"



Damage taken

Every ship has it's health and every shot which hit it reduces value of this health.

Damage of weapon is based on module, it has min and max values and it seems in "wrong" phases weapon deals min_damage and in "right" phase - max_damage.

Let's call damage according to phase base_phase_damage

Race abilities, heroes and cards could increase damage of weapons let's call it damage_bonus (in percents)



And every ship got it's own defence.

Defence of modules is shown in their description. Let's call summary of all defence modules (of one type) base_defence

As allways we got defence_bonus from heroes etc.

And we got Hull weakness from ships description



And the final formula for damage_from_hit is

(1 + Hull weakness / (base_defence * (1 + defence_bonus)) * base_phase_damage * (1 + damage_bonus)

Some shots could be deflected (for kinetic), some damage could be absorbed (for beam) and final formula for damage_from_round is:

(count_of hits - count_of_deflected) * damage_from_hit - absorbed_damage (capped in positive value)

some part of formula are zeroes for kinetic, some for beam, most for rockets.

And third question "Is this formula correct?" because I'm not sure at all.



Rocket intersept

This one is copied from wiki as is:

Flak modules operate very differently than other defense modules. First off, all flak modules in a fleet will act against all missiles targeting ANY ship in the fleet. This means that missiles must penetrate all of the fleets flak defenses! Effective missile fleets then must contain a large portion of missile weapons.

Flak module defense works similarly to how Spread Fire targeting works. A list is made of all of the missiles targeting your fleet. Each Flak module is then assigned to one missile on that list that is not already targeted. If all missiles are targeted and there are still unassigned flak modules, then all missiles are put back onto the list and assignments continue until all modules are assigned targets.

Flak_Interception >= Missile_Evasion * (1 + Turn_before_Reach) * Random[0;1]

So the fourth question is "Is this formula also correct?"



I got a lot of questions about fighters and bombers, but I'll ask them later.



PS It's seems tech tree has typo and all rocket modules called "beam module"

And one more question about combat. Some weapon modules has critic multiplier value. What the critic multiplier is, how often critical hits occurs, and how it affects damage formula?

I tried to find any detailed source of information about battle mechanic and failed. I'll try to describe it as I understand it now and will be pleased if someone tell me is it right, or not. Hope it'll be easier for everyone.

Before I'll begin I want to appologize for mistakes. English is not my native language, but i'm ready to fix mistaces in text if someone point them out for me.























































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