WrenXIII, it looks like the damage system doesn't actually subtract health, but instead only does addition.  Therefore to do damage, and take away an opponents health, you have to add a negative value.  So the -1 to -0.1 adds that negative value to the targets current health, taking damage away.

If you changed the max and min to both be positive, I would expect that you'd make a weapon which adds to the targets health for every attack.   For a really strange device you could put max at -1, and min at 1, and have something which damages half the time, and heals the other half!

@wren - The values are calucated as negatives for damage and added to your currrent HP total to cause HP loss. The xml is trying to say your bow will "hit" for 0-6 points of damage (0 being a miss). The problem appears to be the code reading the min value and seeing zero and then saying that misses automatically. Need to be reading against MaxValue or Value. Not MinValue.

I also wonder if the armour numbers are being taken into account correctly now as well. It will be nice to see the pyton code to all this in order for modders to adjust as they see fit for the style of combat. I'm personally not a big fan of linked miss/hit/damage. I would like a more refined hit or miss by skill, then damage vs protection (armour, spell, terrain even). From there other items like critical hits, sweeping attacks, volley fire, etc could be accounted for.

My 2 cents.

They're getting ready to stage a fix for this along with some other issues that cropped up.

For the bow the bug fix mod apparently works.  Check the mod forums.

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where's the hotfix at ? impulse isnt showing any new update ready atm ?

Was this after the lastest hotfix from a little while ago?  Do you have any XML files in you /Mods directory?

New game, old custom sovereign.  Seems to work great with Relias.  I will keep testing.

Edit:  Working with new custom sovereign