Artillery bombard doesn't work.

[RallyEVO]

Anyone getting a similar bug to what I'm getting? Artillery bombard doesn't exist for my catapults. It can straight attack enemies and most likely die but thats pointless. In the manual it lists button B as the bombard button. That doesn't work and I don't see an icon for bombarding a square.

 

[ainwood]

Anyone getting a similar bug to what I'm getting? Artillery bombard doesn't exist for my catapults. It can straight attack enemies and most likely die but thats pointless. In the manual it lists button B as the bombard button. That doesn't work and I don't see an icon for bombarding a square.

You can only bombard cities. Park them next to a city, and fire away.

If you attack a stack of units with your catapult, its better than the Civ3 bombard - you can do 'collaterol damage' to a number of units in the stack as you attack the best defender. You might lose and get your catapult killed, but they do withdraw sometimes. A stack of catapults can be very powerful - even when the AI has muskets & rifles (Bombard the city down to 0% - risk free, then attack with a few catapults to do some collaterol damage).

 

[RallyEVO]

I was trying to bombard a city, wouldn't allow me 1 or 2 squares away. Pressing B did nothing. Is there some new rules to bombarding stuff other than what you just meantioned? The target city is on some hills and doesn't let me bombard from hill or plain squares. Can you give me the steps on how you bombarded the cities? Maybe I'm missing some steps to the process. Thanks

 

[TSteamer]

I was trying to bombard a city, wouldn't allow me 1 or 2 squares away. Pressing B did nothing. Is there some new rules to bombarding stuff other than what you just meantioned? The target city is on some hills and doesn't let me bombard from hill or plain squares. Can you give me the steps on how you bombarded the cities? Maybe I'm missing some steps to the process. Thanks

Im experiencing the same thing. Naval units to boot. It says right in the description of the Destroyer that it should be able to bombard city defenses. I hit B, and nothing. There is no icon below in the unit actions either. I will post a picture soonest.
-Steamer

 

[BlueLikeYou]

You have to declare war before the bombard icon will show up. So if you are trying to bombard as part of an initial attack, it won't work. This had me really confused for a while. It took me forever to figure it out.

 

[Lmtoops]

A city can be bombarded until it's defenses are down to 0%, after that the bombard button (looks like an archery target) disappears. It is very different as comparted to Civ3.

I haven't had any problems with bombardment. I had to read and re-read the MANUAL a few times to understand the collateral damage.

 

[TSteamer]

A city can be bombarded until it's defenses are down to 0%, after that the bombard button (looks like an archery target) disappears. It is very different as comparted to Civ3.

I haven't had any problems with bombardment. I had to read and re-read the MANUAL a few times to understand the collateral damage.

Aaaah yes. This is the problem. AI Allied forces already had defenses down by the time I swooped in on Aztecepoco to have my own little revenge on Montezuma. Interesting that the whole icon goes away as opposed to giving some sort of little message but there are larger suggestions to be made than a tweak on this!

Thanks much Lm!!

-TSteamer