Editing Combat

==Tactics & Weapon Skill==

In normal Ultima Online, your skill in a particular weapon type determines your hit chance and your Tactics determines your damage. In our system it is reversed and split- your skill in a particular weapon unlocks abilities and determines damage, while your [[Martial Tactics]] and [[UnderhandTactics]] determine your ability to hit. 

'''Martial Tactics''' represents formal military training, and '''Underhand Tactics''' represents informal self-taught experience and the actual military experience that comes from combat.<br> 
In combat, Martial Tactics and Underhanded Tactics are compared to determine the attacker’s effective combat skill and the defender’s effective defensive skill. Against NPCs, this system is simple: the attacker uses whichever of their two tactics skills is higher, and the defender uses whichever of their two tactics skills is higher. There is no Martial-versus-Underhanded penalty in NPC combat, so a character who only trains one tactics skill is not disadvantaged against creatures or other non-player enemies.<br>

<br>
==Example==
Bob has 100 Martial Tactics. Fred has 100 Underhanded Tactics and 40 Martial Tactics.<br>
Bob swings at Fred.<br>
Bob’s 100 Martial Tactics is used because it is higher than his Underhanded Tactics.<br>
Because Bob is attacking with Martial Tactics, Fred’s Martial Tactics is the matching defensive skill and is counted at full value.<br>
Fred has 40 Martial Tactics, so his matching defensive value is 40.<br>
Fred’s Underhanded Tactics is not the matching defensive skill, so his 100 Underhanded Tactics is reduced to 60% value, giving him an effective defensive value of 60.<br>
The system compares Fred’s 40 Martial Tactics against his reduced 60 Underhanded Tactics.<br>
Because 60 is higher than 40, Fred defends using his reduced Underhanded Tactics value.<br>
So the final skillcheck is Bob’s 100 Martial Tactics versus Fred’s effective 60 Underhanded Tactics.<br>
<br>
With no other bonuses, maluses, cover, or modifiers involved, that produces:<br>

''ourValue = (100 + 20) * 100 = 12000<br>''
''theirValue = (60 + 20) * 100 = 8000<br>''
''chance = 12000 / (8000 * 2) = 0.75<br>''
<br>
So Bob would have a 75% hit chance before any other modifiers.<br>
<br>
If Fred had 100 Martial Tactics instead, the final comparison would be 100 Martial Tactics versus 100 Martial Tactics, resulting in a 50% hit chance before modifiers. If Fred had no useful tactics skill at all, Bob’s chance to hit would be much higher and would usually reach the maximum hit chance.<br>