WARNING Partly complicated: Shard Golem

[Cross Punisher]

I've been thinking about this unit for a couple of days. It's fairly complicated and it took some work to make it work.

SHARD GOLEM
"Shard Golems summon shard fragments onto a unit's armor. The shards allow armor to reflect nulified damage back at the attacking unit rather than simply absorbing it. The shards require great concentration by the Shard Golem to maintain, and units under the Shard Golem's effect that stray too far from the Shard Golem lose the shards from their armor, as the effect can't be maintained over great distances."

STATISTICS
Health Points: 60
Power: 0
Armor: 0
Movement Range: 2
Recovery Time: 4
Attack Range: 6
Blocking: 0%

INFORMATION
The Shard Golem casts Sharded Armor on all friendly units in its 6 tile range. Sharded Armor also adds 6 additional armor as long as they stay within the Shard Golem’s 6 tile attack range. This is not a focus attack, but is instead turned on and off with each attack of the Shard Golem.

This is how it works. When you attack a unit, armor normally reduces the damage done but when a unit is sharded, the damage reduced by the attacked unit's armor is reflected back at the attacking unit. These 2 equations sum it all up for you.

PLEASE REMEMBER ORDER OF OPERATIONS IF TRYING THESE EQUATIONS

Damage to Attacked Unit = Damage - (Damage * .attacked units armor)

Damage to Attacking Unit = (Damage * .attacked units armor)

Now if you've gotten this far and still know what I'm talking about good for you .I know this unit may be to complicated to become an actual unit, but I don't care. It's got as good a chance as any other unit here. I just want to hear what you all think about this unit so give me some comments. I'm sure theres still some design flaws because even I can't think of everything, but I tried hard to take everything into account. Do I need to add diagrams about how much units are damaged for attacking because believe me I have them?

Ouch my head hurts, I'm about to go lay down.
*stumbles away*

[Kyir]

makes perfact sence and i like it, you may have the honor of rep

[kvon78]

makes perfact sence and i like it, you may have the honor of rep

wow! a complement on a unit from kyir?!?! awsome! and i agree great unit man!

[Lonely Tylenol]

Well... If you ask me in earnest, I'd have to say it sounds a lot overpowered. You said it raised armor levels, right?... Well, consider this. You could combine this with the Stone Golem to have a Dragon Tyrant with 76 armor and the ability to deal back damage, assuming the armor rating for the Shard Golem is +30.

Make it without the Stone Golem, and sure, it could work... (It might also be wise to only give a small amount of armor or none at all with the Shard Golem, so the choice between the two is higher defense or retal damage.)

EDIT: My mistake, I misread the post. It doesn't raise armor, does it?

Since that's the case, you have two thumbs up, my apologies, and a rep.

[Kyir]

you should make them noncompatible on a single unit

[Lonely Tylenol]

you should make them noncompatible on a single unit

That works, but most people would only use one anyway, since having two non-compoundable focus units and the Cleric alone takes three potential attack units out of it... Dragon takes out another... People would probably only use one or the other anyway. (I'd sooner use the Stone for rush, and the Shard for turtle)

[Cross Punisher]

It doesn't give the unit any extra armor. It just reflects damage nullified by the armor back at the attacking unit instead of simply absorbing it.

And Kyir when you say, "you should make them noncompatible on a single unit" you meant a single setup right.

[Office_Shredder]

It actually looks pretty balanced.... congrats

I like the heal the opponent part

Kick that assassin's ass!

[HellDead Reaper]

very complicated, but if the admins accept to do the coding, id love this unit, even though i wouldn't recieve it on a single's acc

great job, good alternative for relying on clerics, and better in turtle, since it has a restricted area focus. Now we just have to solve the turtle vs. rush situation

[mushroom_girl]

Nice. I wish that unit existed, with a few things adjusted so that it wasn't over-used or something. But it seems very balanced and can save you when it comes to an assassin attack. Rep+1 !

[Kyir]

It doesn't give the unit any extra armor. It just reflects damage nullified by the armor back at the attacking unit instead of simply absorbing it.

And Kyir when you say, "you should make them noncompatible on a single unit" you meant a single setup right.

yhea

[Walrus]

i still dont feel like reading it after all this time.

i read up to the bit where you started going into the healing, then had to do something else. it sounds OK, but maybe a bit underpowered, bare in mind i aint seen the healing part yet though..

[Kyir]

u reped him, so i rep u! only cause your units kick ass! _kvon78

finally someone say says it

[Walrus]

[CRX687]

It's an interesting idea and all, but quite weak.

Okay, the 1 HP thing doesn't matter too much, but there really isn't any reason to use this over stony... And it's hard enough to keep focus...