Abilities

[andrzej]

Abilities are special skills (both positive and negative) that leaders and individual military elements may have.

AGEOD games include many special abilities. Many of them are common to games, plus each game has a few unique to that game.

Hovering your mouse over a special ability icon will also display a tooltip with useful information.

Special abilities in Ageod games are divided into 26 categories , depending on the effect

00: Battle Bonus
01: Move Bonus
02: Transport
03: Training
04: Area Bound
05: Charismatic
06: Patriot
07: IDFlag
08: Supply Mod
09: Siege
10: Surprise
11: Retreat
12: Fog of War Adjust
13: BorrowUnits
14: MultiNation
15: BattleCrossing
16: Flavor
17: CohAdjust
18: Loyalty Adjust
19: CmdAdjust
20: HideAndSeek
21: Collection
22: CommitUnits
23: Commander in Chief Modifiers
24: Attrition Modifiers
25: DamageDealer
26: Unit Spawning

Ability Categories


Ability_Reference (Google table with a brief description of the parameters used in abilities)

(Download the same table Ability Parameters Reference Spreadsheet)

[andrzej]

My ability tables for different games:

Table of abilities in the PON game

Table ability in the WON game

Table of abilities in the game RUG Gold with the Sons of War mod



My page for describing and discussing abilities on the russian forum "Strategium"

[andrzej]

In this topic I want to collect all the information on abilities and discuss details that are unclear to me.

[andrzej]

General ability
that can be used in all categories:

Appliance - scale of influence of the ability:

Self - affects only the itself element/leader.

Leader - this ability will have an effect only if the military leader (with this ability) is the commander of a squad (stack/group/corp/army)

Unit - affects the connection (unit, division) in which it is located

Group - affects the entire squad (stack/group) in which the element / leader is located (the leader does not have to be the squad leader)

Family -
- a parameter that determines the possibility of summing the effects of other abilities. If the Family value of abilities of the same category (for example Battle Bonus) is the same, then their effects do not stack.
Family= 0 apparently means that the effects of such abilities are cumulative with all.

Level
- Initial level of ability: some abilities do not start (written in the game files) from level 1, which can increase efficiency.
The value of the level increases the effects from it by several times, that is, if it is indicated that the ability is of the second level, then the effects from it will be 2 times greater


ProgRate
- speed of improvement .
Number of experience level of the unit/leader to get +1 level in this ability, 5% per level above that indicated

StrParam0
- the ability will only work if the part has a given FactionTag (faction tag) or any other tag for the IDFlag abi. That is, the ability will only work for certain nations.

StrParam6
- Limit a model attribute: Enter attribute as *attribute*, then add the same definition to attribute column in models that are to receive the ability.

StrParam7
- Difine a target attribute: Enter attribute as *attribute*, then add the same definition to attribute column in models that are the target.

Effectiveness
- dependence of the influence of the ability on the activity/inactivity of the leader.
Works only for land leaders (Army). The abilities of Naval Leader (and land leaders who have the ability to control both the Army and the Navy) are never inactive and therefore their abilities do not depend on activity

Area
- Area limitation. Restricted to this area, can only be used at the leader level. . The ability will only work in the specified area(s) This parameter can only be used for Appliance of Leader scale

ListParams0
- list of terrain types. The ability will only work in the listed terrain types.


ListParams1
- a list of your troop types (from the SubTypes (of units&models).ini file). The effects of the ability will only apply to the listed troop types (for example $Irregular or $Cavalry)


ListParams2
- a list of types of enemy troops against whom this ability will work. Can only be used at the Leader scale, or if a BattleBonus class ability, then at any scale.
Only used specifically for FoWAdjustAbi (Fog of War) class abilities.

ListParams6
- list of subtypes (list in Models Families.ini) of your troops for which this ability will work (for example $famLightInf or $famHvyArty)

ListParams7
- a list of subtypes of enemy troops against which this ability will work.

[andrzej]

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- I ask respected ageod experts to help !

I'm correcting the old Russian translation of the PON game and want to make a detailed pop-up description of the abilities. But I couldn't figure out how some parameters work:
1) If one stack has two abilities of the same category and having the same Family, this means that their effects do not stack, but how exactly does this happen:
- any effects from these two abilities will not stack, but then which of the abilities will have priority and will work ?
- or only identical effects will not be summed up, but then the effect of which of the two abilities will have priority?

2) How exactly does the ProgRate parameter work? The value ProgRate = NULL and ProgRate =0 are the same and mean that the level of this ability cannot be increased? What does ProgRate =1 /2/3/4 mean?

3) What does the Level parameter do? Does Level 2 mean that ALL effects from the ability must be multiplied by two? Can all abilities be higher than the first level?

[Bohémond]

I cannot help for the 3 questions regarding family management/level and progRate, it is far beyond my knowledge.

[andrzej]

I cannot help for the 3 questions regarding family management/level and progRate, it is far beyond my knowledge.

There remains hope that Pocus explains. Or I will have to conduct a series of game tests to check how it works.

In any case, I will publish here all the information I have already collected. I think it will be useful for both players and those who make mods for Ageod games.