No More Cracks In The Armour
Abdias Fraser
I demonstrate it in the video, but it is pretty self-explanitory. To use it, first copy the spreadsheet (file->Copy.) simply put in the attacker's level and the defender's armor and it will give you the resulting damage reduction. It is impossible to perfectly backwards engineer whatever compound formula Blizzard has going on but I've gotten it to within 1-2% error for near all levels except for a narrow range that I highlight in red. I have intentionally tuned the calculator to UNDER-ESTIMATE the damage reduction because it's much less dangerous to underestimate damage reduction versus overestimating. For this reason, if it says you have 85% damage reduction you almost certainly do have 85% damage reduction (likely more like 86% or 87%.)
Let me know if you come across any glitches, and if you want to know more details about the math I am happy to answer as well (I didn't want this to be one of those illuminati wizard math posts.) The model needs more armor value data to be perfectly refined so I may improve it in the future.
Zoning refers to the use and control of space. Units that are good at zoning out enemies have abilities that allow them to make areas of the board more dangerous. Your opponent needs to be able to move around the board in order to apply pressure, and therefore you can counter this by making their movements harder to plan or more risky to execute. This can be achieved with equipment such as mines or hacking devices.
Whilst Haqqislam might not have the flashiest guns or best long-range gunfighters, that does not mean that the faction is defenceless against heavier units. Our options against heavy infantry and TAGs span a wide range of archetypes from aggressive fighters to more clandestine hackers or mine-deployers. In fact, with the natural Haqqislam willpower score of 14, you should find that what the faction lacks in direct gunfighting, it can easily make up for in hacking and other alternative methods. With a little bit of pre-planning and careful movement you should find yourself swiftly and cleanly dealing with enemy armour!
Dome pressure receptors (DPRs) are pigmented round submillimetric sensory organs (Fig. 2F), distributed on the crocodile face and jaws, that detect surface pressure waves, allowing crocodiles to swiftly orient, even in darkness, toward a prey perturbing the water-air interface (23). The dome shape of DPRs is due to a modified epidermis and the presence of a pocket of various cell types in the outermost portion of the dermis (Fig. 2F). We marked the localization of DPRs on the 3D models of all scanned individuals (orange dots, Fig. 2, G and H). Many of the cracks that have stopped their course did so close to a DPR (Fig. 2G and fig. S4C). Given that the most frequent cause for fracture arrest is when the crack front meets a heterogeneity in the system (15), it is likely that the modified skin thickness and composition at and around DPRs constitute such heterogeneities. In addition, the course of many edges avoids DPRs (Fig. 2H and fig. S4C).
The overall distribution of DPRs seems rather homogeneous except where the density is increased near the teeth and decreased at the back of the jaws and on the top of the face (fig. S5). Different crocodile individuals differ by as much as 21% and 48% in their total number of DPRs and crack edges, respectively. Remarkably, these two interindividual variations are inversely correlated: Crocodiles with fewer DPRs have more crack edges (fig. S4D). Given that the development of DPRs precedes cracking, this correlation suggests that DPRs constrain cracking, as already implied by Fig. 2, G and H. Despite the fact that the distributions of cracks and DPRs both have a strong stochastic component, the constraining effect of DPRs on cracking is noticeable: The edges tend to travel along the zones of DPRs lowest local density (fig. S4E).
The archetypal cracking process in physics is due to shrinkage [through removal of a diffusing quantity, either heat or a liquid (20)] of a material layer adherent to a nonshrinking substrate (15, 17), such that a stress field builds up and causes fractures when the stress exceeds a threshold characteristic of the material. Crocodiles have a particularly thick and rigid skin due to the presence of a highly collagenous dermis and an epidermis rich in β-keratins (24). The skin covering their head shows a yet thicker (about 2) and more keratinized epidermis. We suggest that the rapid growth of the crocodile embryonic facial and jaw skeleton (relative to the size of the neurocranium), combined with the development of a very keratinized skin, generates the mechanical stress that causes cracking. Here, it is not the cracking layer that shrinks but the underlying substrate layer that grows. It explains that first-order cracks (fig. S6) tend to traverse the width of the face because the head is growing longitudinally faster than in other directions.
In snakes and lizards, scales are developmental units: Each scale differentiates and grows from a primordium that can be identified by in situ hybridization with probes targeting genes belonging to signaling pathways involved in early skin appendage development (1, 4). The large head scales form a predictable pattern following positional cues, such that the identity of adult snake head scales can be recognized while they develop from primordia in the embryo (Fig. 3A). In crocodiles, all postcranial scales follow that same principle of development (Fig. 3B): Spatial distribution of primordia is established, then each primordium differentiates, first into a symmetrical elevation and second as an oriented asymmetrical scale overlapping with more posterior scales (Fig. 3C).
The authors use in situ hybridization to measure expression of these specific genes to identify primordia. In situ hybridization is a technique in which a labeled piece of RNA or DNA, called a probe, complementary to the gene of interest, is localized to a tissue. The labeled probe will base pair with the mRNA sequence of interest, and thus label cells wherever a transcript of the gene of interest is present. To learn more about in situ hybridization, watch this video.
Panel A shows the development of crocodile head skin cracks as the embryo develops. Figure 3D shows the development of dome pressure receptors when the embryos is 45 days old, and the left panel of Figure 4A shows that no cracks have formed at that stage. Cracks begin to develop when the embryo is 50 to 55 days old.
In Panel C, the authors use immunofluorescence to understand where specific proteins are localized. Immunofluorescence is a technique for visualizing protein localization. To learn more about immunofluorescence, click here.
In Panel C, the authors examine cell proliferation in a cross section of the embryonic epidermis. In the first and third panel, a protein expressed in all epidermal cells is labeled, and therefore all epidermal cells appear green. In the second and fourth panel, a protein found in proliferating cell is labeled, and therefore proliferating cells appear green. The second and fourth panel show that cells within the cracks are proliferating. The second and fourth panel also show, using the TUNEL assay, that apoptosis is reduced within the cracks.
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