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Line 14: == [[Video Games]] == * ''[[~~Starcraft~~StarCraft]]'' has quite a bit of this. The Science Vessel can use Irradiate on enemy units, causing damage to them and any nearby units until the afflicted unit dies or the effect expires, the Mutalisk can chain attack up to three enemies, the Devourer's attack causes a damage effect that splashes to nearby airborne units, the Valkyrie's rockets scatter around nearby enemies, and the Reaver, the Infested Terran, the Firebat and the Siege Tank in siege mode all have area-of-effect attack—and in fact, the Firebat is a great defense against a [[Zerg Rush]] thanks to its powerful attack, its area of effect and its ready availability. The Arbiter unit has an AOE debuff which freezes everything in a radius, taking it out of the battle. The Protoss Corsair is an interesting example; it can only attack air-to-air, and its rapid-fire attack has an AOE radius so small it requires several units to be basically on the same spot in order to hit more than one; rather conveniently, air units in Starcraft can pass through each other and tend to bunch up on a single spot when given an attack order, so swarms of enemy flyers will generally form clumps at a single point. * ''[[Warcraft]] III'''s Farseer hero can cast Chain Lightning, a chain attack that hits up to five enemies. The Naga Sea Witch's Forked Lightning can hit three. Archmage's Blizzard, Blood Mage's Flame Strike and Pit Lord's Rain of Fire can damage a targeted area. The Huntress can hit multiple targets with her targets. Siege weapons deal splash damage. So on... * ''[[Bloodline Champions]]'' has quite a large amount of these. Needless to say, avoid clumping up. * ''[[~~Runescape~~RuneScape]]'' has a bunch: Ancient Burst and Barrage spells strike up to eight targets adjacent to the spell's primary target. The dragon halberd's Sweep attack strikes up to three targets in front of the wielder. Line 44: * Some [[Role Playing Games]] have a tradeoff, in that if you keep your party together you can unleash more powerful attacks, but the enemy can also more easily hit you with Area of Effect attacks. Examples include: ''[[Shadow Hearts]]: Covenant'' ''[[Wild ~~Arms~~ARMs 4]]'', ''[[Wild ARMs 5]]'' and ''[[Wild ~~Arms~~ARMs XF]]''. * ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]] Online'' has Gorak the Ancient, who fires lightning bolts that do extensive damage on their own but whose damage increases considerably for each freindly target within a certain radius of the target, hitting BOTH targets with the improved-strength lightning bolt. * ''[[Civilization]] 4'' uses artillery units to combat large stacks. In addition to hurting the unit they attack, they also deal some splash damage to other units in the stack as well. Line 77: == [[Tabletop RPG]] == * The [[Chain Lightning]] spell in ''[[Dungeons ~~and~~& Dragons]]''. After hitting its primary target it arcs to the nearest target (losing 1d6 of damage), doing so again and again until it runs out of energy. AOE spells like Fireball also make standing around in groups rather a bad idea. In 4e, Chain Lightning is a level 23 spell; it starts with 4d6 for the first target, then hit-or-miss it's a second attack for 2d6 for the next target, and then hit-or-miss on THAT it's 1d6 for ''every other enemy within 20 squares of you''. And if you miss with any of those, it's still half damage. There's also Furious Bolts, a spell available to Sorcerers who take the Lightning Fury paragon path. 2d8 damage to the first target, if you hit you do 2d4 to the next target, and you keep doing 2d4 damage until you miss or you run out of targets. Lest we forget the cleave - great cleave feat chain, allowing you an additional attack each time you KO an opponent. Then in their ineffable wisdom, they added [http://www.d20srd.org/srd/psionic/prestigeClasses/warMind.htm#sweepingStrike Sweeping Strike] ability, which can multiply any melee attacks ''and'' explicitly stacks with cleave. Which adds extra attacks. Which are doubled again. Thus e.g. if there were 100 chickens on the squares adjacent to the target, it could give 100 free attacks - or rather, until you miss a chicken. To the "poultrymancer" builds [http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?103915-Chicken-Infested-Build it goes]. * [[Hero Clix]] features this trope in the form of the power Energy Explosion, which in exchange for reducing a characters damage value to 1, it can cause damage to both the target of the attack and every character standing next to them. This can be real fun for characters who can shoot two or three targets at a time, since while the damage is reduced to 1, it also stacks. Line 91 ⟶ 92: {{reflist}} [[Category:Videogame Effects and Spells]] [[Category:~~Herd-Hitting Attack~~{{PAGENAME}}]]