AbilitiesWML

[edit]WML Tags

A: abilities, about, achievement, achievement_group, add_ai_behavior, advanced_preference, advancefrom, advancement, advances, affect_adjacent, ai, allied_with, allow_end_turn, allow_extra_recruit, allow_recruit, allow_undo, and, animate, animate_unit, animation, aspect, attack (replay, weapon), attack_anim, attacks (special, stats), avoid;

B: base_unit, background_layer, berserk, binary_path, break, brush;

C: campaign, cancel_action, candidate_action, capture_village, case, chance_to_hit, change_theme, chat, checkbox, choice, choose, clear_global_variable, clear_menu_item, clear_variable, color_adjust, color_palette, color_range, command (action, replay), continue, core, credits_group, criteria;

D: damage, damage_type, death, deaths, default, defend, defends, defense, delay, deprecated_message, destination, difficulty, disable, disallow_end_turn, disallow_extra_recruit, disallow_recruit, do, do_command, drains, draw_weapon_anim;

E: editor_group, editor_music, editor_times, effect, else (action, animation), elseif, endlevel, end_turn (action, replay), enemy_of, engine, entry (credits, options), era, event, experimental_filter_ability, experimental_filter_ability_active, experimental_filter_specials, extra_anim;

F: facet, facing, fake_unit, false, feedback, female, filter (concept, event), filter_adjacent, filter_adjacent_location, filter_attack, filter_attacker, filter_base_value, filter_condition, filter_defender, filter_enemy, filter_location, filter_opponent, filter_own, filter_owner, filter_radius, filter_recall, filter_second, filter_second_attack, filter_self, filter_side, filter_student, filter_vision, filter_weapon, filter_wml, find_path, fire_event, firststrike, floating_text, fonts, for, foreach, found_item, frame;

G: game_config, get_global_variable, goal, gold, gold_carryover;

H: harm_unit, has_ally, has_attack, has_unit, has_achievement, have_location, have_unit, heal_on_hit, heal_unit, healed_anim, healing_anim, heals, hide_help, hide_unit, hides;

I: idle_anim, if (action, animation, intro), illuminates, image (intro, terrain), init_side, insert_tag, inspect, item, item_group;

J: jamming_costs, join;

K: kill, killed;

L: label, language, leader, leader_goal, leadership, leading_anim, levelin_anim, levelout_anim, lift_fog, limit, literal, load_resource, locale, lock_view, lua;

M: male, menu_item, message, micro_ai, missile_frame, modification, modifications, modify_ai, modify_side, modify_turns, modify_unit, modify_unit_type, move, move_unit, move_unit_fake, move_units_fake, movement_anim, movement costs, movetype, multiplayer, multiplayer_side, music;

N: not, note;

O: object, objective, objectives, on_undo, open_help, option, options, or;

P: part, petrifies, petrify, place_shroud, plague, poison, post_movement_anim, pre_movement_anim, primary_attack, primary_unit, print, progress_achievement, put_to_recall_list;

R: race, random_placement, recall (action, replay), recalls, recruit, recruit_anim, recruiting_anim, recruits, redraw, regenerate, remove_event, remove_item, remove_object, remove_shroud, remove_sound_source, remove_time_area, remove_trait, remove_unit_overlay, repeat, replace_map, replace_schedule, replay, replay_start, reset_fog, resistance (ability, unit), resistance_defaults, resolution, resource, return, role, rule;

S: save, scenario, screen_fade, scroll, scroll_to, scroll_to_unit, secondary_attack, secondary_unit, section, select_unit, sequence, set_achievement, set_extra_recruit, set_global_variable, set_menu_item, set_recruit, set_specials, set_variable, set_variables, sheath_weapon_anim, show_if (message, objective, set_menu_item), show_objectives, side, skirmisher, slider, slow, snapshot, sound, sound_source, source (replay, teleport), special_note, specials, split, stage, standing_anim, statistics, status, store_gold, store_items, store_locations, store_map_dimensions, store_reachable_locations, store_relative_direction, store_side, store_starting_location, store_time_of_day, store_turns, store_unit, store_unit_defense, store_unit_defense_on, store_unit_type, store_unit_type_ids, store_villages, story, swarm, sub_achievement, switch, sync_variable;

T: target, team, teleport (ability, action), teleport_anim, terrain, terrain_defaults, terrain_graphics, terrain_mask, terrain_type, test, test_condition, test_do_attack_by_id, text_input, textdomain, theme, then, tile, time, time_area, topic, toplevel, trait, transform_unit, traveler, true, tunnel;

U: unhide_unit, unit (action, scenario), unit_overlay, unit_type, unit_worth, units, unlock_view, unpetrify, unstore_unit, unsynced;

V: value, variable, variables, variant, variation, victory_anim, village, vision_costs, volume;

W: while, wml_message, wml_schema;

Z: zoom;

Abilities and their effects

There are two types of abilities: ones that apply to units (called abilities) and weapon-based (called specials). A unit may have multiple abilities, but each attack can only have at most one special.

Normal abilities

ambush	the unit becomes invisible on forest. Invisible units cannot be seen by enemies and do not possess zone of control, although if an enemy moves next to one, it becomes visible again.
cures	unit will heal curer_heals_per_turn (see GameConfigWML) hp to all neighbours, up to a total of cure_amount. If a neighbour is poisoned, it will cure the poison instead of healing.
heals	unit will heal healer_heals_per_turn (see GameConfigWML) hp to all neighbours, up to a total of heal_amount. If a neighbour is poisoned, it will prevent the poison's effect instead of healing.
illuminates	all neighbouring hex will be "illuminated", in other words have a different time of day (See TimeWML). Typically, this will be one step brighter.
leadership	the unit will increase the damage of all neighbouring units by +25% per level difference. (If the neighbouring unit is of a higher level, this effect is negated.)
nightstalk	the unit becomes invisible during night.
regenerates	the unit will heal itself 8 hp per turn. If it is poisoned, it will remove the poison instead of healing.
skirmisher	the unit ignores zone of control when moving, but still cannot move directly through an enemy unit
steadfast	the unit takes half normal damage when it did not initiate the attack.
teleport	the unit can move between any two allied villages for one move point
submerge	the unit becomes invisible in deep water.

Attack specials

backstab	doubles damage whenever there is a unit on the opposite side (location) of the defending unit that distracts it. The distracting unit must be an enemy of the defending unit and not incapacitated (e.g. turned to stone).
berserk	forces the combat to continue until either the attacker or the defender is killed, or until 30 rounds have passed (whichever comes first.)
charge	when attacking, both this weapon and defender get double damage.
drain	The controller of this weapon gains health equal to half the damage done (rounded down) whenever this attack hits.
firststrike	when this weapon is used to defend, the battle proceeds as if it were the attacker (i.e. it attacks first).
magical	this weapon always has a 70% chance of hitting.
marksman	when attacking, this weapon has a minimum of 60% chance of hitting.
plague	The controller of this weapon is copied onto the tile that any unit this attack killed was on.
poison	when this weapon hits, the defender becomes poisoned (see [status], SingleUnitWML).
slow	when this weapon hits, the defender becomes slowed (see [status], SingleUnitWML).
stone	when this weapon hits, the defender turns to stone (see [status], SingleUnitWML).

See Also

• AbilitiesWMLTechnical1.1.3
• UnitWML
• SingleUnitWML
• ReferenceWML