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I tried something different (and complex) with armour this time around. Bear with me for the explanation 😅 

• Armour is something like a separate life pool - let's call that pool durability. The armour stat actually represents a unit's maximum durability.
• While a unit has durability, it takes only 10% of hit damage to life, and 10% to durability - most of it is mitigated!
• The break stat directly damages durability to destroy it much faster, and the pierce stat allows more of your damage to bypass the effect of armour.

If you're interested in a (much) more detailed explanation 😛 The calculation has a few steps:

1. The attacker's break stat directly damages the defender's durability, in full.
2. The pierce percentage is then calculated. It's 100% if they don't have any durability left. Otherwise, it's a base of 10%, which scales up to 100% if you have 100% pierce from Spears.
3. Then we deal with the non-pierced amount, if any: this damages the defender's durability, but 90% of this amount is mitigated by the armour!
4. If the non-pierced amount is enough to deplete the defender's durability, any excess damage (pre-mitigation) will be added back to the pierced amount.
5. And finally, the pierced amount is dealt to the defender's life.

Here's an example:

• Attempted hit damage = 100
• Break stat = 50
• Pierce stat = 50%
• Defender's remaining durability = 100 (too much for the Break stat to overcome on its own)
• Effective pierce = 10% + (50% of 90%) = 55%
• Non-pierced is everything left over = 45%
• Damage to durability = 50 (break) + 100 x 45% (non-pierced) x 10% (90% mitigated by armour) = 54
• Damage to life = 100 x 55% (effect pierce) = 55