When you have multiple unit types in a group the potential damage is split among all the types. Then the x-factor is applied to each unit type independently resulting in variation between the groups.

In Cow 1.0 games the damaged unit groups are recombined into a smaller healthier unit as the hit points are decreased.

In Cow 1.5 games the units do not merge back into smaller healthier units. Units will not start to die until their health gets very low.

I would not call it a random loss, simply the way that unit groups are displayed.


let’s take 10 units each with 10 hit points, for a group with 100 hit points total.

Now in a combat tick this group receives 15 hit points of damage:



In 1.0 games the first 10 hit points eliminates one of the units, and the remaining group is 85 hit points out of 90 possible hit points in the remaining 9 unit group. This could mean 9 units each with 94.4% condition if they are split at that point.

In 1.5 games you would still have all 10 units, and each would be at 8.5 hit points, or 85% condition.

I said before the damage is first split among all the unit types, and then the random number generator is applied to determine the exact damage each group will take.


If that doesn’t answer your question you may need to give a specific example so I can understand what exactly you want to know.

Damage distribution depends on the army composition of the attacked army. If an army has 8 Infantry units and 2 Light Tanks in it, then 80% of the unarmored damage would go towards the Infantry, 20% of the armored damage would go to the Light Tanks.

there should be a way to give a stack an order to attack a specific type of unit in an enemy stack. once i was attackinh a stack with some light tanks. i wsnted destroy the artillery becsuse it was attacking my weak troops but the artilldry was one of the last units to be destroyed