Didn't get around to playing any further yesterday

Game design question: In regards to damage mitigation, there are basically two options: Damage reduction and evasion

To me, for a strategy game, is there any reason to pick evasion?

Predictability is valuable in strategy games, and damage reduction is far more predictable than evasion

I can see reasoning behind evasion when you are aiming for action-style games. Dodging (or failing to dodge) is far more exciting.

hmm....it appears that evasion isn't quite equivalent to damage reduction. For example, if I have 90% damage reduction on a Attack that deals 100 Damage to a 10HP unit, the unit still dies. If I have a 90% evasion on the same attack, the unit doesn't die

In essence, evasion "caps" the damage to the available HP

@NathanMerrill One difference would be if you have a more binary kill/not kill system rather than having damage/hp loss.

Like you could have some sort of evasion in a game like Stratego/chess, but you couldn't really do block

Right, but in those games, damage reduction doesn't really make sense

Exactly

I don't think that would actually be any good though. So much strategy depends on you being able to assume that an enemy piece dies

Which... Is kinda right back to the main argument against evasion in the first place lol