Armor Units Having Different Color HP#566

I’ve ran across a lot of new players who seem to not understand how armor works/what units have it. It would be cool to have armored units to have a different HP bar to signify that they have armor and take reduced damage. Definitely not a huge change but would be a nice QoL addition.

I like this too, because even as someone that knows what it looks like, it can still be easy to miss when looking around the board.

Absolutely great idea!
Another way to communicate to other players without words whether or not a unit has armor.

I was thinking last night something like a yellow outline around the HP bar would be a good indicator for units with armor.

There is a modification to the health bar to show armor already. It’s a little metallic doo-dad on the right side. It’s not super obvious, but once you see it, you see it. I’m not sure any of these other suggestions would be more obvious. It just takes some experience to take in all of the elements of the UI maybe.

Making armor more obvious on the Unit Health-Bar/Flags is something I’ll be looking at. Changing the health bar color is problematic since its one of the more obvious ways for you to identify what team a unit is on, but I do think that using a shield icon next to your health number rather than the metal-armor “doo-dad” might be more effective. I’m also generally looking at slimming a lot of those elements down to reduce clutter when units are clustered.

I think the way it is, is just fine. But if you can do another obvious way without any big amount of coding, why not ;-)

I appreciate that, thank you! Coding isn’t really the issue here, its taking time to work on the design/visuals which is something that I’m already planning to do so works out.