Auto Bombard

[fishpimp]

What the heck is this "auto bombard" business? Is it good for anything? Seriously.

 

[Theoden]

It orders your artillery unit to bombard the selected square every turn without having to order it.
I've never used it but I would imagine it could be useful in a drawn out siege

 

[CIV34ME]

Yeah, like when you bring over 50 artillery in an attempt to redline all of the defenders and then destroy improvments, it would take quite a while to fire all of them each turn.

 

[Bugfatty300]

Never use it.

But then again I never use the anything auto.

But sometimes I'll hit the auto bomb for a bomber or fighter by mistake and I forget it for a while after its bombed an enemy city for 10 straight turns.

 

[Evie]

It can also be useful for any modpack that has bombard-able units with the "blitz" ability : hitting shift-b once and then watching the fireworks of several shots is much easier than hitting B as many times in a row as your blitz artillery has move points.

 

[sealman]

One problem with it is that, since it is an auto move, it goes last. So you have to "wait" for all your units that you plan on attacking until after the auto-bombard or else your units will be attacking fresh units.

 

[gunkulator]

Since the vast majority of players try to capture cities in 1 turn, auto-bombard is pretty useless, espcially considering that units heal between rounds.

The only time I have ever used it is when I have a couple ships trying to bombard a coastal resource or lux. Frigates in particular have a very low bombard value and it's quite annoying to have to command it over and over.

 

[sealman]

Since the vast majority of players try to capture cities in 1 turn, auto-bombard is pretty useless, espcially considering that units heal between rounds.

The only time I have ever used it is when I have a couple ships trying to bombard a coastal resource or lux. Frigates in particular have a very low bombard value and it's quite annoying to have to command it over and over.

Units only heal fully on one turn if there is a barracks in town.