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Rafael posted 02-14-99 07:38 PM ET
I build a vehicle with a laser system and had it modified for heavy artillery ( which is bombardment). Later i had some fungus approach one of my undefended bases and only had time to move the vehicle in range to defend. Well the vehicle destroyed all the fungus but i wasn't expecting it to. This didnt make sense to me. In the online manual it states that bombardment cannot lower ground units below 50 % life. How then could i kill the fungus.
Even though it worked in my favor this was yet another confliction of how things are presented. How can one get accurate data concerning special attacks ?
AJ posted 02-14-99 07:47 PM ET
Artillery has different effects on different units. All examples assume that your doing a long range bombardment.
Artillery attacking air - cannot do unless air unit grounded in a base, then counts as a ground unit
Artillery vs Human ground(non-Artillery) - may hurt target, cannot reduce below 50%.
Artillery vs Artillery or Navy - Artllery duel starts - Attack rating vs Attack rating. Armour has no effect. May result in death of one unit.
Artillery vs Native units (Mind Worms or Isles of the Deep) - really hurts them, but have never seen kill. Reason - native units are physically very weak, it's only their Psi powers that make them any threat at all.
Recommended tactic - bombard approaching worms, then attack them with a mobile unit - the damage makes it unlikely that your mobile unit will lose and you get the free credits from the planetpearls.
Jeffrey Morris FIRAXIS posted 02-14-99 11:43 PM ET
If you mean fungus (and not native units) you simply destroyed it, as you could a farm or mine or what have you. Bombard is great for pummeling stacks of units, but also great for destroying infastructure (or in this case, anti-infastructure).
jkm
firaxis games
hellrazor posted 02-17-99 07:10 PM ET
So I can use artillery to remove fungus? Probably a lot quicker than using terreformers.
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Author	Topic: Questions / conflictoins about bombardment
Rafael	posted 02-14-99 07:38 PM ET I build a vehicle with a laser system and had it modified for heavy artillery ( which is bombardment). Later i had some fungus approach one of my undefended bases and only had time to move the vehicle in range to defend. Well the vehicle destroyed all the fungus but i wasn't expecting it to. This didnt make sense to me. In the online manual it states that bombardment cannot lower ground units below 50 % life. How then could i kill the fungus. Even though it worked in my favor this was yet another confliction of how things are presented. How can one get accurate data concerning special attacks ?
AJ	posted 02-14-99 07:47 PM ET Artillery has different effects on different units. All examples assume that your doing a long range bombardment. Artillery attacking air - cannot do unless air unit grounded in a base, then counts as a ground unit Artillery vs Human ground(non-Artillery) - may hurt target, cannot reduce below 50%. Artillery vs Artillery or Navy - Artllery duel starts - Attack rating vs Attack rating. Armour has no effect. May result in death of one unit. Artillery vs Native units (Mind Worms or Isles of the Deep) - really hurts them, but have never seen kill. Reason - native units are physically very weak, it's only their Psi powers that make them any threat at all. Recommended tactic - bombard approaching worms, then attack them with a mobile unit - the damage makes it unlikely that your mobile unit will lose and you get the free credits from the planetpearls.
Jeffrey Morris FIRAXIS	posted 02-14-99 11:43 PM ET If you mean fungus (and not native units) you simply destroyed it, as you could a farm or mine or what have you. Bombard is great for pummeling stacks of units, but also great for destroying infastructure (or in this case, anti-infastructure). jkm firaxis games
hellrazor	posted 02-17-99 07:10 PM ET So I can use artillery to remove fungus? Probably a lot quicker than using terreformers.