Talk:Samurai (Age of Empires II)/@comment-27977344-20160430092407/@comment-26842175-20160430093625

Well, try the FU slinger vs. FU Elite Huskarls (or Inca Elite Eagle warrior in AK). You will see the Elite huskarl has 10 pierce armor, while the slinger seems to have 19 attack vs. Infantry. So you expect 9 damage.

In reality the slinger does 11. The pierce armor only effect the base attack of the Slinger. So the base attack is reduced to 1 and they have 10 bonus making a total of 11.

It is true that attack bonus ingnores armor, but for Samurai vs. Teutonic knight it does not matter. For slinger vs. Elite Huskarls it does. Another example where it matters is Mangudia vs Rams or non FU skirmishers( like civs without bracer have) vs. archers with 6 pierce armor (FU cav. archers or plumed achers) or FU skirmishers vs. FU War Wagon/ FU Elephant Archers.