Kalran: Tales of the four nations/Damage and armor types

Basic damage and armor system
Damage is done in a simple mathematic equation. It begins with whether the attack hit or missed, if it does hit, the damage is calculated as follows: how much damage the attacking unit does divided by special tags the target has, if any, minus the the armor the target has. The only exception to the final rule is forcefields. Forcefields instead take full damage from all sources, regardless of the unit's size or damage type modifiers but damage is still reduced by shield armor.

All damages can never be reduced to zero, unless target is armored/superheavy, with the minimal damage being 1.

Infantry
Most infantry comes in squad sizes, where its cheaper to reinforce then replace them most of the time, while their small size allows them to garrison, use cover, and move through heavily dense terrain and are avoid anti-tank weaponry. But in turn they can be supressed/pinned, vulnerable to morale damage, and are easily killed by area of effect weapons. They also have directionality similar to vehicles, taking more damage when shot at the side and the rear, but they will always turn to facetheir enemy, meaning it requires to units to attack at an infantries flanks/rear.

Vehicle
Vehicles are significantly tougher then infantry but are unable garrison or reinforce, and takes more damage to the sides and particularly the rear, and most have their vision range is shorter than their range, and are close to blind when it comes to their sides and rear, necessitating infantry to act as spotters and guard their flanks and rears. And can also suffer from critical damages, from damaged engines to a busted gun.

Omni
Omni-armoured units, like mechs, do not suffer from directionality damage but are still susceptible to critical damage.

Aircraft
Aircrafts are more frail compared to vehicles but they can fly.

Critical damage
A unique type of damage only inflicted to vehicles and aircrafts. Critical damages incapacitate to cripple a vehicle, and if done well turn the tide of battle.

Whether a vehicle gets damage there is a small chance, which increases when hitting the rear, that damage is a critical, which can be temporary to permanent until repaired. But some weapons and abilities, like the Defenders LAW, can cause a guaranteed type of critical.

Temporary
Stunned crew: Vehicle is briefly stunned

Stunned commander: Vehicle is briefly debuffed

Jammed tracks/legs: vehicle is temporarily immobilized

Jammed weapons: vehicle can't attack

Permanent
These damages will stay until repaired

Damaged autoloader: Vehicle rate of fire drastically decreases

Damaged engines/leg: Vehicle drastically slows down

Damaged tracks/hoverdrive/legs: Vehicle becomes immobilized, if critical hoverdrive over the sea vehicle will sink

Damaged turret: Vehicle must now turn itself to fire at enemy

Damaged gun: Vehicle can't attack

Killed crew: Vehicle crew dies but vehicle remains somewhat intact, allowing commander or opponent to take it, but its heavily damaged most of the time. Aircrafts can't get this damage

Killed gunner: Vehicle can't attack

Killed loader: Vehicle rate of fire decreases

Sub-system
A unique mechanic, limited to epic units and a few special units, is the sub-system.

These units are unique in that they are large/complex enough that each specific system, from the armaments to the engine, can be individually targeted. Compared to critical these individual modules are harder to destroy but doing so will lead to the unit losing any function linked to it until its repaired, ranging from being unable to fire that specific weapon to becoming immobilized. And all of the modules must be destroyed to kill these units, with a few exceptions.

Special tags
In game units and/or their weapons may have special tags to tip the battle

Amphibious (X%)
These units can operate on both land and water, but speed may decrease to X percentage.

Apathetic
These units are immune to all morale damage.

Armored
These units are immune to all damages that is not piercing/sundering.

Berserk
Instead of retreating when their morale breaks, these infantry gains increase damage and speed and will attack the nearest unit but becomes uncontrollable for some time.

Bulky
These units takes up two spaces in transport and/or garrison.

Cannon fodder
Nearby infantry will not lose morale when witnessing these units dying, unless their also tagged as cannon fodder.

Cap (X)
Damage to these units can't go above X.

Capture
These units can capture structures, neutral and enemies

Cliffjumper
These unit can jump/walk up and down cliffs.

Cloak (moving/attacking/detected/X)
These units can become invisible until moving, attacking, getting detected, or being within X range of a unit.

Circling (X)
Radius in which certain aircraft move while idle.

Coordination (X/Y/Z)
These unit gains buff when near X amount of units, Y types of units, at Z distance.

Crusher
These units can crush tanks, walls, and small structures.

Death cry
These units produce an effect upon dying.

Degenerates (X)
These units lose X amount of health per second.

Degrades
These units are mechanically complex and react poorly to damage. When these units hit yellow or red damage, their movement slows and their ability recharges take much longer.

Detector (X)
These units detect stealthed units in a radius of X.

Disciplinarian
These units will instantly kill any infantry who retreats from morale break, healing morale damage to remaining and surrounding squads.

Disengage
These units can avoid damage when retreating from melee.

Elite
These units takes half damage from all sources.

Empower (X)
These unit buffs other units in X radius

Engineer
These units can repair structures, fix bridges, clear mines, and place explosives on walls.

Evade (X/Y)
Unit has X chance to avoid incoming damage, takes half damage at Y chance if attack hits.

Fearless
These units are immune to stunning and suppression.

Fire Magnet
Any attempt to fire through the target will strike it instead.

Forcefield (X)
These units have a secondary health bar that depletes first and regenerates out of combat, but takes double damage to EMP/MDP.

Formation (X)
These infantry gains buff when squad size is above X but gains debuffs when below X.

Frail
These units takes double damage from all sources.

Frenzied
These units cannot be suppressed if in the presence of other units with the Frenzied tag.

Garrison expert
These units are immune to degarrison weapons

Garrison specialist
These units are immune to damage when garrisoned and will only take half damage when garrison is destroyed with them in it.

Heavy
These units can't be transported by flying units

Heavy armor
These infantry takes half damage from non piercing/rending/disruptor weapons.

High altitude
These aircraft can only be targeted by weapon with the long range tag.

Hovers
These units don't quite touch the ground. Hovering units take half damage from mines and can strafe, but tend to have long acceleration and deceleration times.

Infiltrator
These units will not be automatically attacked by enemy units and defenses, needing the enemy command to force attack them.

Minesweeper
These units takes 10% damage from mines.

Move Through Cover
The unit is not affected/slowed down by certain terrain types.

NBC Protection
Units are stunned half as long by stun weapons and take reduced damage from afterburn damage.

Regenerator (X)
Gains the number indicated of health back per second.

Rooted
These units are resistant to knockbacks.

Shield (X)
These units have X amount of armor when attack non piercing/rending/disruptor ranged weapons in one direction and halves suppression effects.

Skirmisher
Infantry can execute can execute a reverse move fire and their weapons off-axis, but immediately becomes pinned when suppressed. While vehicles can fire while moving and hitting 100% of the time but takes increased damage and has a higher chance of suffering critical damage.

Stability (X)
These unit will degenerate once X runs out.

Superheavy
Vehicle reduces all non piercing and sundering weapons by half, but are heavily slowed in dense terrain. Superheavy

Superheavy armor
Infantry reduces all non piercing, sundering, and disruptor damages by half and makes them immune to suppression, but slows to a crawl when getting supressed and debuffs their defense in time.

Surrender
These units, once appropriate upgrade is purchased, will always surrender when attacked by such weaponry.

Taunt (X/Y)
Unit in X radius will move to attack tagged unit, ignoring any prior and oncoming orders for Y seconds.

Take-Off Speed (X)
Speed at which airplanes take off.

Tall
These ground units can be hit by anti-air weaponry. Or these air units can be hit by ground attacks

Terrifying
This unit deals heavy morale damage to units that sees it.

Thick-skinned
These aircrafts takes half damage from non armor piercing/disruptor weapons.

Timed life (X)
Unit instantly dies once X reaches 0.

Tough
These units takes reduced afterburn damage.

Transport (X)
Can transport the indicated number of infantry units.

Unbreakable
These units will not retreat even when morale breaks, but will suffer a major debuff to stats.

Uncrushable
Cannot be crushed by vehicles.

Unstoppable
This unit is not slowed when crushing enemies.

Volatile
Upon death, these units explodes.

Wading
These units can walk underwater or on land. But when on territory they were not designed for, they move slower, have lower defences, and cannot attack.

Afterburn (X/Y)
Continues to do X damage per second for Y seconds after the attack strikes.

Ambush
These weapons deal double damage when attacking while stealthed.

Area of Effect (X)
Area of effect weapons deal damage in a radius, with no drop-off from the epicenter of the blast.

Backstab
Weapons deal quadruple damage when attacking units rear and sides or supressed/pinned infantry.

Blind (X%)
Weapon reduces units range by X percent.

Charge defense
These weapons nullifies charge bonus, and reflect damage to units with furious charge.

Charge up (X)
Weapon takes X seconds to fire.

Cleaving (X)
Weapons attacks deals damage to units besides or behind target at X radius.

Corrosive
These weapons makes target more vulnerable to damage

CQC (close quarters combat)
These range weapons can be used in melee.

Cryo
Freezes rather than doing damage.

Degarrison
These weapons instantly kills units inside garrisons.

Disable (X)
These weapon makes target unable to attack for X seconds

Disruptor
These weapons ignores damage reduction of shield and heavy armor.

Drop-Off
Weapons that Drop-Off do less damage the farther away the target is.

Dumb Fire
This weapon is a projectile that will not follow its target in flight, so it may miss moving enemies and is more susceptible to point defenses.

EMP/MDP (electromagnetic pulse/magic dispelling pulse)
These weapons stuns vehicles and structures and damages forcefields and mechanical/undead units

Expert charge defense
These weapons deals bonus damage to charging units. And reflects and doubles all damage to enemies with furious charge.

Explosive
These weapons ignores all damage resistance.

Finishing blow
These weapons deal double damage to supressed/pinned or retreating units.

Flanking
Weapons deal double damage when attacking units rear and sides or supressed/pinned infantry.

Furious charge
The damage bonus and speed boost when unit is charging into melee are doubled.

Grounding
These weapon forces aircrafts and flying units to the ground, and targetable by ground weapons.

Harasser
This weapon deals double damage to harvesters.

Horrifying
These weapons deals more damage to morale.

Inaccurate (X)
Inaccurate weapons drift off target during flight, not always striking the intended area. The number shows how far a projectile may drift.

Indirect
Indirect weapons don't need line of sight, and can be fired over obstacles.

Instant Kill (X)
These weapons completely negate certain unit classes or armour types, killing them in one shot.

Intimidating (X)
Suppresses in a radius even if the weapon does no area damage.

Knock-Back
Weapons that deal knockback will send enemy infantry flying on impact.

Large targets
These weapons will only have a 5% chance of hitting infantry.

Lift
These weapons lifts up ground units, making them vulnerable to AA weapons.

Limited Ammo (X)
Carries a limited number of shots for the weapon indicated, after which the unit will have to return or wait to reload.

Line Fire
Hits everything on the path to and behind the target.

Lingers (X)
Leaves behind an area for X seconds where it will continue to strike targets.

Lock-On (X)
Weapons with Lock-On take a moment before firing on a target, during which time they must face the target.

Move and Fire
This weapon can be fired while on the move. But with a 50% chance to hit.

Multi-attack (X)
These weapons may attack up to X units at once.

Multi-shot (X)
These projectile weapons fires up to x projectiles in a single attack.

Non-lethal
This weapon damage will always cause target to surrender instead of dying, or knocked unconscious for Horde, Reclaimer, Ouroboros, and Cult.

Off-Hand (X)
The unit will take X seconds to swap between this and another primary weapon when attacking, depending on role.

Parry (X)
These weapons grant X amount of armor if unit is fighting in melee.

Piercing
These weapons negates armored and superheavy, shield, and heavy armor damage reductions.

Pinning
Deals suppression damage.

Point defense
Weapon automatically intercepts and destroys projectile.

Pull
These weapon pulls target towards wielder.

Ramp Up (X)
This weapon increases in X Stat the longer the object has been firing.

Reloads (X/Y)
After X shots, this weapon must spend Y time reloading.

Rending
These weapons deals double damage to infantry, and negates heavy armor and shield bonus, but deals half damage to vehicles.

Scattergun
Scattergun weapons hit a larger area the farther away the target is.

Slow (X%)
Weapon slows unit by X percent.

Splash (X)
Weapons that do splash damage explode over an area, doing less damage farther away from the epicenter. X defines the radius.

Spread
This weapons represent inaccurate suppression fire; they scatter like Inaccurate weapons, but have a small Area of Effect as well.

Stun (X)
This weapon disables targets for X seconds.

Sub-Unit Launch (X/Y)
This unit's weapon uses smaller units such as drones. X defines the names of these units and Y defines the maximum number that can be used at once.

Sundering
These weapons deals double damage to vehicles but deals half damage to infantry.

Tracking
This weapon is a projectile that will follow the enemy in flight but can be intercepted.

Vampire
Vampire weapons convert this percentage of damage dealt into health for the user.

Weaken
These weapons decreases the damage of target.

Warding
Weapons attack pushes enemy units back.