I've looked in the forums and haven't seen this addressed anywhere, though it is possible I could have missed it. I was playing a multiplayer game and tried to attack one of the other player's emancipation gate with a dreadnought but it wouldn't do anything except show the attack stats for both units. Can you attack a planetary wonder like the emancipation gate with a ranged unit like the dreadnought or is it because it's a naval unit or some other reason? Any help would be appreciated.
attaking planetary wonders
- Thread starter tbrichter
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Ranged units can only take planetary wonders down to 0 health, you need a melee unit to actually kill them.
Your dreadnought's line-of-sight can also be blocked by a forest or hill on the shore. Rather than right-clicking, if you click ranged attack in the unit actions menu, you can see whether your effective range is being reduced by terrain.
All that said, I wouldn't be surprised if this is a bug. I ran into a bug the other day where a few of my aircraft did not damage a PW, even though the animation ran and they used up their attack...
draknor
Chieftain
Grrrr... Lost a game to a friend's Mindflower because I only had a ship in the area, and I could bombard it to zero health, but without a land unit I couldn't actually capture it! Beat my Emancipation Gate victory by just a few turns... if I had planned better (and/or known about the land unit requirement), I'm sure I could have gotten a unit halfway around the world in time. Oh well - lessons learned 
player1 fanatic
Fanatic
Well, you are lucky that your friend put the Mindflower in the bombardment range of naval units.
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