Cold-Blooded

The Cold-Blooded beings in this game are either reptiles, such as C'tissians, or cave-adapted beings unused to temperature fluctuations (such as Zotz). They do not want to fight in the Cold.

Just for reference, everyone at 3 or colder suffers additional Base Encumbrance, Cold-Blooded or not. The amount is the Temperature minus 1, so 3 adds +2, 4 points adds +3 and 5 points adds +4; 1 and 2 add nothing on their own. Every 5 points of Cold Resistance on a unit removes 1 point of that addition, so 5 Cold Resistance leaves +1 at 3 and 10 Cold Resistance leaves nothing. The full rule is under Encumbrance.

On top of the above, Cold-Blooded fellows suffer extra Base Encumbrance from Cold Scales, on top of the typical penalties for this stuff. Each point of Cold colder than 0 adds 2 points, and the stat sheet lists it as Cold Blooded in cold climate, apart from the Severe Cold that everyone gets.

New to Dominions 6, Cold Resistance can relieve Cold-Blooded units in the Cold. 5 Points will reduce their additional penalty by 50%, while 10 Points will remove that extra penalty entirely. Almost all Cold-Blooded nations have some source of this resistance.

For reference, here's how Cold temperature scale increases the Encumbrance of regular troops, versus Cold-Blooded ones. (Neither have Cold Resistance!)

Temperature	Regular Fellas	Cold-Blooded Fellas
1	+0	+2
2	+0	+4
3	+2	+8
4 points	+3	+11
5 points	+4	+14

• Max Age is 50% higher than the same creature would otherwise have, which puts an ordinary Cold-Blooded humanoid at 75 years rather than 50. Starting age is a third of that figure, so a Cold-Blooded creature begins life proportionally older as well. Roughly half of the Cold-Blooded roster is given a max age of its own instead, and those creatures keep their own number.
• A Cold-Blooded Pretender God chassis costs 10 fewer design points when it is auto calculated.
• A Cold-Blooded mage of size 3 turned into a lich becomes a Saurolich rather than the usual form. One that flies does not, because flight is looked at first and hands back an ordinary Lich. Anything carrying a lich form of its own keeps that and never becomes Saurolich either.