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Dude, you probably confused morale with luck, then your statement will be correct.;)

Imagine: a Knight of Darkness (with its ability to deal double damage) attacks with luck. Now imagine how much damage it will do? Quadruple! I remember something like that happening. It was fun. Those who were attacked by knights (I don't remember who their victims were) fell from just one such hit.

Dude, you probably don't quite understand what "double damage" means... ;) The problem is that the game tooltip doesn't explain this term, and many people misunderstand it.

The thing is, when Luck triggers, it doesn't double the final damage; instead, it only adds the base damage to the total (i.e., the base damage is doubled). And the base damage usually makes up only a small part of the overall damage.

This is just a common misconception. Let me give an example: a Death Knight controlled by a hero with 40 Attack points attacks some Centaur. Suppose the Death Knight has the "Double Damage" ability trigger, as well as luck in the same round. Calculating the final damage he will inflict on the Centaur looks something like this:

20 HP (base damage, which can range from 15-30 HP) + 55 HP (the difference between the Death Knight's attack and the Centaur's defense) + 20 HP (adding base damage due to the Death Knight's ability) + 20 HP (Luck also added base damage) = 115 HP. Of these, luck and the ability contributed only 17% each. So where is the quadrupling of damage?

And if morale triggers, you can deal another 20 HP (base) + 55 HP (the difference between the Death Knight's attack and the Centaur's defense) = 75 HP, which is much more effective than luck, which only brought 20 HP. That is, when morale occurs, on average, you can deal about the same amount of damage again. (I say "on average" because sometimes it's less, and sometimes it's more). In the case of luck triggering, only its part is added...

This is why I think that sometimes it's worth listening to other players instead of making unsubstantiated claims... Reiter was right.

Where did you get these formulas from?

Believe me, in my case (by the way, in that battle, the warriors who fell from the Knights' attack were mine), the Knights wouldn't have been able to take down those targets with a single hit. Believe me, even at a glance, it was clear that they couldn't.

It's a pity that such units are very vulnerable. I mean, there are artifacts that reduce the morale or luck of the enemy hero, and then these abilities become just a waste of skill slots.

Morality rules. You can choose who to attack second. Luck doesn't offer a choice and is also effectively weaker.

Luck is better, in my opinion. Example: A) We have a well-developed Defense skill: our troops attack, they are repelled. Then they attack again, and are not repelled. Unless, of course, it's griffins. ;) B) We have a well-developed Luck skill: our troops hit, deal more damage => the counterattack will be smaller, which is already very good. And if they attack griffins, they won't even get a second counterattack. ;)