What Is The Logic To Combat Injuries?

[JinxHeartnet]

Im starting to think combat injuries are just complete nonsense, not helped by the fact that my heir is made a knight automatically without my knowing despite his focus being stewardship (yes his prowess is descent but I think making your heir a knight should be something you have to manually consent to). I was playing as basically Portuguese superman, over 30 martial and about 25 prowess holding a mountain tile against some generic muslim horde. Numbers were about 2,000 for me 3,500 for them, given my leader's traits, terrain and superior terrain I easily won every single defensive battle. I mean easily, like every battle had that green flag "you will win decisively" symbol. I go to look at my heir, he's injured, disfigured and missing an arm. How? If the winning army has suffered such devastating damage, why isn't the losing army's commander dead, or maimed, or even injured? It's like I win a battle, and I'm on the verge of death and I lose half my advisors. I lose a battle, literally nothing happens. Defensive or offensive, doesn't matter, and I don't have the reckless trait.

[brownacs]

The main factors are whether you win the battle, how thoroughly you win/lose, and the knight in question's prowess. That and a healthy dose of RNG.

You can, and should, stop your heir from being a knight. It's something everyone learns the hard way. I had a berserker rip off my genius son's head once when I forgot to forbid him from serving.

Also, 30/25 martial/prowess isn't really superhuman. The better randomly generated AI characters sometimes have 40-50 prowess. 60/80 (martial/prowess), if not 100/100 (which is totally doable), would be my bar.

[JinxHeartnet]

Originally posted by brownacs:

The main factors are whether you win the battle, how thoroughly you win/lose, and the knight in question's prowess. That and a healthy dose of RNG.

You can, and should, stop your heir from being a knight. It's something everyone learns the hard way. I had a berserker rip off my genius son's head once when I forgot to forbid him from serving.

Also, 30/25 martial/prowess isn't really superhuman. The better randomly generated AI characters sometimes have 40-50 prowess. 60/80 (martial/prowess), if not 100/100 (which is totally doable), would be my bar.

Never seen that in the years I've played this game

[Deusmodeus]

You can find the conditions in the folder:
Crusader Kings III\game\common\combat_phase_events\

The files are:
00_knight_phase_events.txt
00_commander_phase_events.txt


A quick glance:
each tick of combat has a chance to set off a knight trigger, that then rolls a chance to wound or kill the unit based on traits and other factors.

[Fitzy]

Originally posted by JinxHeartnet:

Originally posted by brownacs:

The main factors are whether you win the battle, how thoroughly you win/lose, and the knight in question's prowess. That and a healthy dose of RNG.

You can, and should, stop your heir from being a knight. It's something everyone learns the hard way. I had a berserker rip off my genius son's head once when I forgot to forbid him from serving.

Also, 30/25 martial/prowess isn't really superhuman. The better randomly generated AI characters sometimes have 40-50 prowess. 60/80 (martial/prowess), if not 100/100 (which is totally doable), would be my bar.

Never seen that in the years I've played this game

Never seen what? High prowess? So much for your "years"


https://images.steamusercontent.com/ugc/17779018886997164518/7875A2E70D7231D8899AC5B1A8139009226FFA9C/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false


https://images.steamusercontent.com/ugc/13285210578748944361/11230BAC640EBA5412CC28EB93662E76D61E8740/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false

Here is a 3 year old with 21 prowess, if you get decent rolls you can reach 30 + before you're an adult. https://images.steamusercontent.com/ugc/15379793143467457125/33A53CFB31C8DEC2BEC1CC5A65567BF56AF5BDB4/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false

[brownacs]

Originally posted by Fitzy:

Never seen what? High prowess? So much for your "years"


https://images.steamusercontent.com/ugc/17779018886997164518/7875A2E70D7231D8899AC5B1A8139009226FFA9C/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false


https://images.steamusercontent.com/ugc/13285210578748944361/11230BAC640EBA5412CC28EB93662E76D61E8740/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false

Here is a 3 year old with 21 prowess, if you get decent rolls you can reach 30 + before you're an adult. https://images.steamusercontent.com/ugc/15379793143467457125/33A53CFB31C8DEC2BEC1CC5A65567BF56AF5BDB4/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3650475580

I'm short 2 martial for the 100/100, but I did have it before my brother/Marshal died. Also wasn't really trying, so never did any monument expeditions, which I would've done if I'd been deliberately trying to get the highest possible stats.

If you mean the berserker head ripping off thing OP, it can happen if you're fighting the Norse.