[milotin]

Originally posted by Psycho: About Lightning strike... If a samurai swings his sword three things can happen: normal swing, critical strike, lightning strike. It goes like this (numbers are fictional) The computer rolls a dice taking into account your lvl, the monsters lvl, encumbrance and your critical strike skill. If the number is high enough u get a critical kill, a bit lower lightning strike, otherwise normal swing. So your weight has some influence (keep it white or blue). For example u and monster equal lvl : dice 1-20: 18-20 = critical strike/14-17 = lightning strike/1-13 = normal strike. The higher your critical strike skill the lower the number required to get a critical! If your critical skill gets real high u might get a critical 15-20, lightning strike 14-15, normal strike 1-13. Also, the higher your lvl compared to the monsters, the higher the chance for a critical kill. U will see lightning strikes against stronger monsters and when your critical skill lvl is low -> always so at start of game. If u run 2 samurais next to each other and build critical strike on one of them, the one with high critical strike skill gets less lightning strikes. I decided not to build critical strike at first, putting 3pts in close combat, sword and dual weapons. Just start putting pts in critical strike when one of those is over 75. Lightning strike and critical kill compete against each other so the higher critical strike skill and extra %kill from weapons, the lower the chance for a lightning strike. I'm not 100% sure about this, but after all I've seen and read, it should work like this. Signed, One sick Psycho