Talk:Arch-vile

Arch-vile can't target certain monsters in vanilla, but friendly arch-viles can
The most recent series of edits excises all mention of friendly monsters from the main text and footnotes. I have no opinion on that as a broad guideline (port-specific information has been added to articles without disruption in some cases), but here it is inconsistent because the new numbers in the "shots to kill" table presuppose friendly monsters. That deterministic method of calculation can never be correct when a direct hit is forbidden (possibly excepting the barrel which has less than 70 hp). So what do we do? IMHO those lines should be blank, as before &mdash; a great many stochastic assumptions would be required to create a damage distribution, and AFAIK there is no preexisting research to refer to, so we just have to wait patiently for a more defensible analysis. Ryan W 18:14, 3 October 2008 (UTC)