Breath attack: Difference between revisions

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Breath attack is a special ability typical for living dragons, but also for Firebirds and Phoenixs . It enables them to attack two consecutive hexes at once, making individual damage to both hexes. However, creatures that are two hexes wide do not suffer double damage from the breath attack. Although creatures with breath attack specialty cannot directly attack allied creatures, they can - similar to Liches and Power Liches' Death Cloud and Magogs' Fireball Attack - cause damage to allied creatures located on the second hex. In other words, breath attack will also damage the hero's own troops if they are standing directly behind the attacked hex.

Damage for each attacked stack is calculated separately. Black Dragons' hate against Titans works even if the latter were not attacked directly and suffered from breath attack. If your Black Dragons by mistake attacked Titans who are part of your army, they will still deal 150% damage.

Bone Dragons, Ghost Dragons, Crystal Dragons and Faerie Dragons don't have breath attack.

Creatures with breath attack:

Bugs[edit]

Two bugs related to the Breath attack remain unresolved.

Dragon Breath Exploit[edit]

As a result of the AI being made to always attempt to burn with a Breath attack when possible, if behind the dragon stands a stack of units (particularly such that at least one creature can withstand a Dragon's attack), and there's another, weaker stack directly above or below them, next to the dragon, the Dragon will move 2 hexes (above or below, depending on where the weaker stack stands) and attack the weaker stack; the breath attack, however, will not activate, and the stronger stack behind the Dragon will remain untouched.

Mechanic and Engineer's breath attack direction[edit]

Mechanic's and Engineer's Breath attack, when attacking a 2-hex creature from the hex directly above or below them, does not follow the direction of the sword-arrow, but rather the direction of Mechanic's or Engineer's movement.

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HotA is most likely aware of the Dragon breath exploit, but decided not to fix it as a result of it being rather niche and mostly used for tactical advantage.

The AI can play rather well around breath attack, so do not expect to bait enemy dragons into retaliation onto their own stack.

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-'''Breath attack''' is a [[special ability]] of [[living]] [[dragon]]s, and also [[Firebird and Phoenix|Firebirds and Phoenixes]]. It enables them to attack two consecutive hexes at once, making individual damage to both hexes. However, creatures that are two hexes wide do not suffer double damage from the breath attack. Although creatures cannot normally attack allied, and for exampler [[Hydra and Chaos Hydra|hydras]] adjacent attack does not cause damage to allied creature, breath attack will also damage hero's own troops if standing directly behind the attacked hex.
+'''Breath attack''' is a [[special ability]] typical for living [[dragon]]s, but also for {{Cnu|Firebird|Phoenix|name=Firebirds and Phoenixs}}{{-wa}}. It enables them to attack two consecutive hexes at once, making individual damage to both hexes. However, creatures that are two hexes wide do not suffer double damage from the breath attack. Although creatures with breath attack specialty cannot directly attack allied creatures, they can - similar to {{Cnu|Lich|Power Lich|name=Liches and Power Liches}}' [[Death Cloud]] and {{Cn|Magog}}s' [[Fireball Attack]] - cause damage to allied creatures located on the second hex. In other words, breath attack will also damage the hero's own troops if they are standing directly behind the attacked hex.
-Certain other creatures like [[mighty gorgon]]s have an attack that visually looks like breath attack, but does not have the same effect.
+Damage for each attacked stack is calculated separately. {{Cn|Black Dragon}}s' [[hate]] against {{Cn|Titan}}s works even if the latter were not attacked directly and suffered from breath attack. If your Black Dragons by mistake attacked Titans who are part of your army, they will still deal 150% damage.
-== Creatures with breath attack ==
+{{Cn|Bone Dragon}}s, {{Cn|Ghost Dragon}}s, {{Cn|Crystal Dragon}}s{{-wa}} and {{Cn|Faerie Dragon}}s{{-wa}} don't have breath attack.
-{{Creature table}}
-{{Creature table row|Firebird|Conflux|7|18|18|30|40|150|15|1500||[[Breath attack]], [[School of Fire Magic|Fire spell]] [[Spell immunity|immunity]]}}
+'''Creatures with breath attack:'''
-{{Creature table row|Phoenix |Conflux |7|21|18|30|40| 200|21| 2000|+1 {{M}}|[[Breath attack]], [[School of Fire Magic|Fire spell]] [[Spell immunity|immunity]], [[Rebirth]]}}
+* {{Cnu|Green Dragon|Gold Dragon|name=Green and Gold Dragons}}
-{{Creature table row|Green Dragon|Rampart|7|18|18|40|50|180|10|2400|+1 {{C}}|[[Dragon]], [[Breath attack]], [[Spell immunity|Immune]] to lvl 1–3 [[spells]]}}
+* {{Cnu|Red Dragon|Black Dragon|name=Red and Black Dragons}}
-{{Creature table row|Red Dragon|Dungeon|7|19|19|40|50|180|11|2500|+1 {{S}}|[[Dragon]], [[Breath attack]], [[Spell immunity|Immune]] to lvl 1–3 [[spells]]}}
+* {{Cnu|Firebird|Phoenix|name=Firebirds and Phoenixes}}{{-wa}}
-{{Creature table row|Black Dragon|Dungeon|7|25|25|40|50|300|15|4000|+2 {{S}}|[[Dragon]], [[Breath attack]], [[Spell immunity|Immune]] to all [[spells]], [[Hate]]s [[Giant and Titan|giants and titans]]}}
+* {{Cn|Rust Dragon}}s{{-wa}}
-{{Creature table row|Gold Dragon|Rampart|7|27|27|40|50|250|16|4000|+2 {{C}}|[[Dragon]], [[Breath attack]], [[Spell immunity|Immune]] to lvl 1–4 [[spells]]}}
+* {{Cn|Azure Dragon}}s{{-wa}}
-{{Creature table row|Azure Dragon|Neutral||50|50|70|80|1000|19|30000|20 {{M}}|[[Dragon]], [[Breath attack]], [[Fear]], [[Spell immunity|Immune]] to lvl 1–3 [[spells]], Immune to [[Fear]]}}
+* {{Cnu|Mechanic|Engineer|name=Mechanics and Engineers}}{{-wh}}
-|}
+== Bugs ==
+Two bugs related to the Breath attack remain unresolved.
+=== Dragon Breath Exploit ===
+As a result of the AI being made to always attempt to burn with a Breath attack when possible, if behind the dragon stands a stack of units (particularly such that at least one creature can withstand a Dragon's attack), and there's another, weaker stack directly ''above'' or ''below'' them, next to the dragon, the Dragon will move 2 hexes (above or below, depending on where the weaker stack stands) and attack the weaker stack; the breath attack, however, will ''not'' activate, and the stronger stack behind the Dragon will remain untouched.
+=== [[Mechanic and Engineer]]'s breath attack direction ===
+Mechanic's and Engineer's Breath attack, when attacking a 2-hex creature from the hex directly above or below them, does not follow the direction of the sword-arrow, but rather the direction of Mechanic's or Engineer's movement.
+{{User commentary|
+HotA is most likely aware of the [[Breath attack#Dragon Breath Exploit|Dragon breath exploit]], but decided not to fix it as a result of it being rather niche and mostly used for tactical advantage.
+The AI can play rather well around breath attack, so do not expect to bait enemy dragons into retaliation onto their own stack.
+}}{{end of user commentary}}
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