Orange Skulls?

[EagleEye]

I just got an event with 2 orange skulls, but the difficulty looked more like at least a 4 skull encounter when going in to the fight.

I don't seem to see anywhere that describes what the orange skulls mean.

[Frenetic]

i think its supposed to be on the next scale, because they cant fit in more than 5 skulls. so after 5 normal skulls comes 1 red skull etc..

[EagleEye]

For some reason I thought the max was 5 skulls, but that makes sense.

[Agagamemnon]

Just checking this answer : I'm not sure 2 orange skulls are equivalent to 7 white skulls, my team just made this encounter and the combat was not that hard. I'd say a 3/4 skulls challenge maybe, nothing worse.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=935598642

I wonder if orange could mean something else, maybe : here is an option your god could dislike ?

[dergefata]

That's probably the easiest 2-orange skull fight you can have. It's barely any harder than a roaming 4-skull, because it's only 5 creatures, and only two of them are actually dangerous.

Generally, orange or red will mean "harder than 5-skull white" but that particular encounter is very easy and might make you underestimate the danger posed by other red skull groups ;)

[Hugo]

Just as an input ... skulls are generally not very reliable as a difficulty indicator of an enemy. Your prior experience of an certain enemy type should be your general guide, not the skulls. You can roughly say that the difficulty of an enemy is its represented skull level ( + - 2) So a level 2 skull fight can be as difficult as a level 4 fight. Or on the other hand, a skull 3 enemy can be as easy as a level 1 skull enemy.

Worth pointing out futher, regarding the undead, the skulls a utterly useless as a tool to determine difficulty of an enemy. On the "bright side" if you are forced into battle with a superior undead army, you can use the auto-combat option. As it is broken too regarding the undead, it often gives you insane damage versus easy opponents, but it might sometimes work in your favor as well giving you no damage, when you should not even be able to win at all.