Blitz, what does it do

[J Fred Muggs]

In the editor, it allows you to give a unit the blitz ability. Just what does this do?

I want to kill ships with the artillery bombard, but don't really want to go through upping all of the attack ratings. I'm sure it would unbalance it in ways I can't predict.

 

[Dark Sheer]

Blitz means you can have multiple attack per turn as long as the unit still has movement points left.

 

[J Fred Muggs]

Ok, thanks.

Actually it was one of your posts that mentioned that upping the attack rating would allow the bombard function to kill things, if it was high enough. Have you fooled around anymore with the settings? I can only guess that it is hard coded that you can't bombard anymore when the enemies hit points get to one. Any clues on how to get around this? It would be the the easiest way to fix my problem. Still might unbalance the game though.

I may try to give artillery a zone of control and see if this keeps the AI from wave after wave of ships bombarding my coast. It actually is just a minor pain as at this point, my workers have little to do except pollution control.

 

[Dark Sheer]

Actually I have not been fooling around with the bombardment rating lately. Mainly of course I need to fill those flc file oders

Nah, actually my main concern was if I up it too much then the AI might just build tons of artilleries for attack

 

[J Fred Muggs]

"Nah, actually my main concern was if I up it too much then the AI might just build tons of artilleries for attack "

Yeah, it was my thought as well. As it is if I give Arty a zoc, it may make things really tough. Think I'll give it a try though.