Diplomacy

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Diplomacy is a skill that gives heroes a chance to pay and recruit enemy neutral squads instead of fighting them, provided that their army is strong enough to intimidate them into doing so.

From the game files (Core.zip — DB/diplomacy_info.json, the field/enum names in the game's IL2CPP metadata and others) it looks the the chance to join is affected by the strength ratio of the neutral stack against player stack. A join will happen, if the player's armystrength + modifiers > neutral stack's armystrength + aggression level.

Apart from the diplomacy skills, players' strength is affected by:

• Troop count [9, 13, 21, 31, 44, 64, 150] per tier (hitpoints seem irrellevant here and the neutral stacks are valued higher per tier [25, 50, 75, 125, 225, 425, 1250])
• Matching unit - an exact match applying a x3 modifier to troop count and a partial match (different upgrade path, but same unit) applying x2.
• Hero level (+200 per level, making a level 10 hero equivalent of aprox 64 tier 4 troops)
• Hero primary stats (+5 per point)

Keep in mind that the map template may generate neutral squads that will never join or always join rendering the modifiers irrelevant. Also, the modifiers may be changed at any point in balance patches - the above is based on version 0.80.24

Levels

Basic Diplomacy

Provides a chance of neutral squads offering to join the hero’s army for Gold instead of fighting them.

Advanced Diplomacy

Provides a chance of neutral squads offering to join the hero’s army for Gold instead of fighting them. +25% Persuasion Power in Diplomacy.

Larger Than Life

Neutral squads view the hero’s army as +25% more powerful than it is, increasing the chance that they will join or flee. This bonus is doubled if the hero knows “Battlecraft”.

Eloquence

–75% to the cost of surrendering.

Folk Hero

+50% Persuasion Power in Diplomacy with neutral squads from the hero’s faction.

Expert Diplomacy

Provides a chance of neutral squads offering to join the hero’s army for Gold instead of fighting them. +50% Persuasion Power in Diplomacy.

Art of the Deal

Neutral squads take –15% Gold to recruit. This bonus is doubled if the hero knows “Economy”.

Vagrant Army

Friendly creatures with neutral affinity gain an additional +100% of the hero’s Attack and Defense to their Attack and Defense.

Negotiator

+20% to the number of units from neutral squads joining the hero’s army.

Skill Synergies

Knowing Diplomacy will give the following benefits to other subskills:

Expert Defense

Wizard Contract
Friendly creatures take –10% Magic Damage. This bonus is doubled if the hero knows “Diplomacy.”

Advanced Recruitment

Veterans
Tier-4 creature growth in all your cities increases by 2. This bonus is doubled if the hero knows “Diplomacy.”

Artifact Effects

Holy Sigil of Insara  — Epic Relic

While worn, grants all unlearned Subskills of the following Skills: Leadership, Insight, Diplomacy, Tactics.

Diplomatic Gifts  — Legendary Item

+10% to Persuasion Power in Diplomacy.

Ambassador's Sash  — Legendary Back

+10% to Persuasion Power in Diplomacy.

Might Skills

OffenseDefenseLeadershipLuckResistanceTacticsBattlecraftSiegecraftRecruitment

Combat(Might Exclusive)

Magic Skills

Battle
MagicSorcerySummon
AvatarWisdomDaylight
MagicNightshade
MagicArcane
MagicPrimal
Magic

Thaumaturgy(Magic Exclusive)

General Skills

DiplomacyLogisticsScoutingInsightEconomy

Faction Skills

RighteousnessNecromancyMurmuringSummon
SwarmAbyssal
CommunionTriumvirate's
Strength

Skills

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