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<blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 6525138" data-attributes="member: 907">It's more that fighting lots of foes at once is a lot harder than fighting a single foe, even if that foe is tough. Let's take an incredibly simplified example:Say you have two dudes fighting one another. They both have 50% chance to hit, deal 1 point of damage, and can take 10 points of damage. Who will win? That's a crap-shoot, but whoever does win is likely to be down to only one or two hit points by the end of it.Now, let's instead say you have two dudes fighting a third, same stats as above. Who will win? Almost certainly the duo, and they'll likely only be down 5 points of damage between them. In a way, doubling the number of combatants on one side will make them four times as effective, because they both deal and take twice as much damage.Fighting one opponent after the other is nowhere near as bad. If we had started out with a one-on-one fight, and then had the winner immediately fight a second fight... well, he'd almost certainly lose that fight, but he'd have managed to deal his foes about 10 points of damage instead of the 5 he'd deal in a two-on-one fight. That's why there's a multiplier for numerous opponents.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Staffan, post: 6525138, member: 907"] It's more that fighting lots of foes at once is a lot harder than fighting a single foe, even if that foe is tough. Let's take an incredibly simplified example: Say you have two dudes fighting one another. They both have 50% chance to hit, deal 1 point of damage, and can take 10 points of damage. Who will win? That's a crap-shoot, but whoever does win is likely to be down to only one or two hit points by the end of it. Now, let's instead say you have two dudes fighting a third, same stats as above. Who will win? Almost certainly the duo, and they'll likely only be down 5 points of damage between them. In a way, doubling the number of combatants on one side will make them four times as effective, because they both deal [I]and take[/I] twice as much damage. Fighting one opponent after the other is nowhere near as bad. If we had started out with a one-on-one fight, and then had the winner immediately fight a second fight... well, he'd almost certainly lose that fight, but he'd have managed to deal his foes about 10 points of damage instead of the 5 he'd deal in a two-on-one fight. [I]That's[/I] why there's a multiplier for numerous opponents. [/QUOTE]

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