The Warhammer Attributes
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In Warhammer, units are defined by a set of attributes ranging from 1 to 10 (where humans average at 3).
Physical attributes | |||
Attribute | Full name | Description | |
M | Movement Allowance | This represents the speed at which a regiment can manoeuvre, and is also used as a basis for
calculating their charge distance. | |
Ws | Weapon Skill | This defines how skilled a warrior is with his weapons, or how vicious a monster is. The higher
the value the more likely the fighter is to hit a hand-to-hand combat opponent. | |
Bs | Ballistic Skill | This defines how skilled a warrior is with ranged weapons such as bows or crossbows, or how
accurate a ranged war machine such as a cannon is. | |
S | Strength | This shows how strong a creature is, and therefore how hard it can hit. Strength is used to
determine how easily a creature can hurt an opponent it has struck. The strength of the weapon is also taken into account. | |
T | Toughness | This is a measure of a creature's or a machine's ability to resist damage when hit. The higher the value, the lower the chance of landed blows actually inflicting wounds. | |
W | Wounds | This shows how much damage a creature or machine can take before it dies or falls unconscious (or in the case of machines, before it is ruined). | |
I | Initiative | This indicates how fast a creature can react. In close combat this is used to determine the order in
which creatures strike. | |
A | Attacks | This defines how often a creature attacks during close combat. A creature with more than one attack can potentially strike more than one enemy creature in the same round. | |
Ld | Leadership | This shows how brave and solid a creature is. A creature with a high leadership is less likely to
flee from close combat (rout), and is more likely to rally if they do rout. Also, all regiments with a leader use his Leadership in any tests. |
While the Warhammer attribute set is tested and refined, there are two issues at hand. (1) WARTBED will be able to accommodate more games than "just" Dark Omen and those games might not easily lend to the Warhammer set; and (2) it might not be wise to use the Warhammer set straight off for reasons of IP rights (meh).