Weapon Strength - Icons and stats - Need some clarification.

[Naughty Mouse]

hello,

I am a little confused on this stat.

Weapon Strength comes in general in several parts.
Regular Damage
Armor piercing damage
Infantry bonus damage
Large unit bonus damage

So if you hover over the stat bar you can see a breakdown such as

regular damage 20
Armor Piercing damage 10

Now you will have this type of damage explanation on pretty much every unit, pending on the damage they do.

What I want to know is how does the Armor Piercing Icon/ Large Size/Infantry play into this. Does the icon change the or add to the specs shown when you hover over, or does the icon only show you that you in fact have some of these stats present.

The reason I ask is, I see units that have pretty good armor piercing stats, but do not have the armor piercing icon. So i am not sure if the icon itself is only a indicator that this unit has high armor piercing damage or if it actually adds or change the values displayed in some way.

Can anybody answer this?

[Guts]

The armor piercing icon denotes their intended role. It means that more of their damage is armor piercing than not, and it would be wasteful to pit them against a low armor enemy.

[Wyvern]

AP icon just means a unit has more AP damage than non-AP damage. Many non-AP units are still respectable against armor(saurus for example).

Bonuses vs X add damage in proportion to your Non-AP/AP. For example, a unit that has 20 Non AP and 10 AP and 9 Bonus vs infantry will then get an extra 6 non-AP and 3 AP weapon strength against infantry. The bonus also adds to your MA.

[Naughty Mouse]

ok, so it seems the ICONS such as armor piercing are in fact only window dressing that indicate that this units role is armor piercing, but in fact does not affect the stat. And in fact many units when you hover over will have actually very good armor piercing stats or such but no icon.

[Elitewrecker PT]

The icons are there to summarize the stat distribution and their bonuses. If you hover over the stat you can see the specific numbers but the icon tells you at a glance if a unit has bonus against infantry, large, a higher ratio of armor piercing etc.