Throwing Accuracy

Throwing Accuracy affects a soldier's ability to hit their target with a thrown object.

Starting Values

New recruits will always begin with a value between 50 and 80.

Maximum Caps

An X-COM soldier's Throwing Accuracy is capped at 120.

Improvement

Throwing Accuracy is increased by throwing objects. (How obtuse is that?) It will increase from 0 to 6 points per combat mission, depending on how many times you threw something. Only the number of throws matters - your current Throwing Accuracy does not affect the number of points awarded. With one throw, an average of approx. 1.7 points are awarded (range 0-3). With 9 throws, approx. 4.0 points are awarded (range 2-6). Above approx. 10 throws, very little additional points are awarded. Because you can get a +6 roll when at cap-1 (119) if you have enough throws, it is possible to have a Throwing Accuracy of up to 125 (cap+5). For more info, see Soldier Experience.

Influencing Factors

Throwing Accuracy is also affected by other factors:

• +15% when kneeling.
• -10% per wound to the head or throwing arm.
• -25% x (max health-current health)/max health)

Throwing Distance

While not exactly Throwing Accuracy, this is as a good a place as any for this:

Throwing Distance roughly = 2.5 * Strength / Weight

So, Strength directly affects throwing distance.

The "2.5" appears to vary from ~ 2.1 to 3.3 and/or there is some other variable not yet understood.

Refer to the handy list of Item Weights for weight information.

When weapons are tossed, the weight of the ammo (if loaded) is not counted. (But weight from loaded ammo does otherwise count for weighing down a soldier carrying the weapon.)

See Also

Firing Accuracy