Ritzilopochtli
Tavern Dweller
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posted May 09, 2025 05:12 PM |
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[HoMM II] Do dwarves & battle dwarves resist creatures' abilities?
Lately I'm researching a lot of how HoMM 2 works, and I've noticed that you never actually see a message saying (battle) dwarves resisted a spell cast by a creature attack (like the unicorn's blind, cyclops' paralysis etc). But surely they must, right?
Since both of these abilities (attack spell and spell resistance) are RNG-based, I've assumed that the game somehow accounts for the dwarves' resistance when throwing dice on whether the attack spell will trigger. I roughly estimated that if the supposed chance to cast curse is 30%, then the dwarves' 25% resistance would decrease it to ~22%. So I decided to test it.
As attackers I used royal mummies since they get the highest odds to cast a spell with an attack - 30% curse. I ran two combats: against veteran pikemen (no resistance; sort of a control group), and then against battle dwarves (25% resistance). Both combats had 20 rounds, 5 stacks of attackers and defenders on both sides, so 100 attack instances in total. To speed things up after each round I cast mass dispel.
The actual numbers of rounds in the combat against dwarves was >20 since occasionally they resisted mass dispel. When this occurred, I skipped entire rounds, and waited until it naturally wore off or mass dispel proc'ed. For the summary I only counted the rounds with actual attacks.
Results are below. As you can see, veteran pikemen scored 25% curses out of 100 attacks, and battle dwarves did even more - 29%. To say the least, I didn't manage to find a meaningful effect of dwarves' resistance on blocking spells cast by creatures' attacks.
Interesting to know if someone has some theories on this question.
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