200 armour Warriors of chaos or 150 armour Chosen?

[st0815]

Hi, I have Warriors of chaos with 200 armor (because of many industry buildings). I can upgrade them to chosen. Now I wonder if I should. They would loose 50 armor but gain 1000 HP and some damage increases.

What do you think?

[Aleera]

Chosen have superior stats.

Armour only stops between 50% to 100% of the armour value. So Chosen with 150 armour would stop between 75% to 99% of non ap damage.
While the Chaos warriors would stop 99% period.

Rule of thumb is, 130 is the dropoff point where you stop caring about adding armour.

[Verchial]

I think Chaos Warriors (especially of Khorne) are the best all around melee infantry in this game. Not best, hands down, but when considering recruit time, cost, ease of access, they are a great value.

Yeah Chosen are better, but the lower entity count kinda bugs me. Plus, as already pointed out, armor overkill seems to not have a … BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!!

[Monochromatic Spider]

Originally posted by Rianne:

Chosen have superior stats.

Armour only stops between 50% to 100% of the armour value. So Chosen with 150 armour would stop between 75% to 99% of non ap damage.
While the Chaos warriors would stop 99% period.

Rule of thumb is, 130 is the dropoff point where you stop caring about adding armour.

The damage reduction from armour is not capped. Chosen with 150 armour would stop 75-100% of non-AP damage. Chaos warriors with 200 armour stop all non-AP damage, full stop.

Also, as far as I know, the upper limit of the roll is not capped at 100 either, meaning you can technically roll 101, 102, etc. And that result is only then rounded down to 100%. What this means is that your chance of blocking all damage increases as armour goes up.

But the reason it doesn't pay to care too much about armour is that AP damage sources are legion. 200 armour won't save your entities from monster charges, gunpowder units, other elite units, melee characters, and so on.

[Monochromatic Spider]

Originally posted by st0815:

Hi, I have Warriors of chaos with 200 armor (because of many industry buildings). I can upgrade them to chosen. Now I wonder if I should. They would loose 50 armor but gain 1000 HP and some damage increases.

What do you think?

I'd go chosen if you can afford it. Less entities but more health means a lot more health per entity, and their stats are much better.

[R131]

The increased melee defence stat on chosen will mitigate alot more damage than overbuffing the armor to 200. I think they get a tad more damage and chance to hit as well.

Cost effective wise the chaos warriors maybe a good choice but for flat out battle efficiency chosen are better.