Aiming and AOA - superstitions or fact?

[Berrern]

I'm just curious about your style with regards to two things: artillery aiming and Angle Of Attack (AOA).

First, the Artillery.
Do you aim with it? I seem to have more success if I spend a second or two aiming at the thing I want to hit, but I'm sure it's just a stupid superstition. When I get enough Artillery, there's no time to aim anyway, as it'd take an hour to bomb a city that way

Another thing that baffles me is the Angle Of Attack. Whenever I attack a city, I try to attack from different sides. Sometimes, I can lose like 4 units (without them doing any damage to the opponent), but if I change the AOA, I often kill the defender in the first try. Therefore, I like to differentiate the AOA, cause I think that it surprises/confuses the AI when I attack them from all angles.

Both are probably just silly superstitions, but I follow them like a slave.

Anyone else got any weird playing styles or superstitious moves they perform during their games? Would be nice to hear your experience

 

[Turner]

AFAIK, AoA (I thought this was about the old moderator....) or aiming has nothing to do with it. Yes, I've played with this to, but I think it's just the vagarities of the RNG. One thing I used to do, and still do for different reasons, is Recon that site before hand. It used to seem like I got better results when I 'knew' what was there. Now I do it to keep tabs on defenders, so I can send that one lone MA into the town and capture it. I've captured so many cities in my current game this way.

 

[JMK]

Not sure about the Angle of Attack but It seams that (although this has not been seriously tested) arti are not as good when you fire accross a river over a hill or over a mountain. I would likeky loose one turn moving my stack of arti on the mountain rather than firing the city over a mountain.
Once again this is only feeling, and could be attributed to the BRNG (B for bloody)

 

[Garbarsardar.jr]

check a very good thread http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=39577

my private superstition is to say candyman 3 times everytime I attack a fortified spearman on a mountain with a tank...lol

more on that:http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=88906

 

[Dell19]

My suspicion is that the terrain influences success, so if there is a hill in the way, bombardment will be less successful...

 

[dgfred]

It does seem to be effected by terrain between, and if you have "recon"
already . I still aim carefully though I am sure it is only a
stupid superstition of mine . I also usually click extra hard
too .

 

[JMK]

I also usually click extra hard
too .

And i am sure it helps!

 

[dgfred]

@ JMK- Not one bit ; but I am a complete wierdo about such things
. Or, as my wife and daughter say "a geeky nerd".

 

[Turner]

I used to hold the shift key during battles there for a while. No reason...just had a string of good luck while holding it to speed up animations...

Don't ... we all have our little quirks. But I draw the line at offering my firstborn to Sid. Second born, mabye...

 

[Berrern]

I also usually click extra hard
too .

LOL, I do the same!
Not only do I press hard, but hold it for like 1 second before releasing the button

 

[dgfred]

@Berrern- . Us freaks have to stick together .

 

[Berrern]

Hehe, damn right!

I'm really curious now, I'll try to do some testing on artillery aiming vs. "blind" shooting with my 150-stack in one of my savegames

 

[HalfBadger]

LOL, I do the same!
Not only do I press hard, but hold it for like 1 second before releasing the button

Wow I do that too, must be a frustration thing, since when I miss a couple times, then press harder and hold I'm usually thinking, die scum!!

I wonder if any of these matters, since I've set some ships to auto bombard and they hit their target once in a while.

 

[Tweedledum]

I used to have the "superstition" that ensuring the targetting cross-hairs were "mathematically" centred on the target tile helped, but it doesn't - its just random.

Not having a recon unit makes it look as if your success rate is less, because artillery doesn't give the "enemy units injured" message that aerial bombardment does, so if you want an accurate picture of success/failure you need that spotter unit...

 

[fazzoletti]

I used to have that same thing about targetting crosshairs! Also I tend to believe that if you attack diagonally, you have more chance of winning...

 

[BassDude726]

I agree! It seems like the units have more momentum on the diagonal for some reason even though I know it shouldn't really make a difference

 

[sealman]

I like attacking a city from a mountain or a hill. Never tried to hit the button harder but I do tend to stand up when I am attempting to capture a city size 20 or larger. Better to "see the battle unfold"

 

[Longasc]

This is only superstition.

The only hard and proven fact is the myth of the


IMMORTAL SPEARMAN!!!

 

[sealman]

This is only superstition.

The only hard and proven fact is the myth of the


IMMORTAL SPEARMAN!!!

That is the best smiley around!

 

[dgfred]

@ Longasc- Great one- .