bombardment and scout question

[mieuro]

Silly question, but what does "rate" mean for those units that are capable of bombarding?

Also, I had ONLY a single scout within a rival's borders and was asked by the AI to withdraw my troops. I thought that scouts were considered non-military units. Has anyone else experienced this?

Thanks!

 

[napoleon526]

Originally posted by mieuro
Silly question, but what does "rate" mean for those units that are capable of bombarding?

Also, I had ONLY a single scout within a rival's borders and was asked by the AI to withdraw my troops. I thought that scouts were considered non-military units. Has anyone else experienced this?

Thanks!

Rate for artillery units is the likelyhood that they will damage the target.

Scouts can be forced to withdraw, as can other non-combat units such as settlers, workers, and explorers.

 

[Radegast]

I could be wrong but I thought rate of fire determined the number of chances you get to remove a hit point.

So a catapult, with ROF 1 will only ever remove 1 HP, but a unit with ROF 3 may remove 1, 2 or 3 HP.

As to scouts, they'll ask you to remove them but they won't get cross and demand you remove them, therefore they'll not declare war because of scouts.

Which opens up some interesting 'exploits', but I shan't go into those here.

 

[Willem]

I've noticed since 1.17f, the other civs are much less tolerant of Scouts in their territory. Before, I'd sometimes park a Scout on top of a resource the other civ hadn't made a road to yet, and quite often I could leave it there for a number of turns. Now though, they're raising a fuss almost as soon as he enters their space.

 

[Bamspeedy]

I've noticed since 1.17f, the other civs are much less tolerant of Scouts in their territory. Before, I'd sometimes park a Scout on top of a resource the other civ hadn't made a road to yet, and quite often I could leave it there for a number of turns. Now though, they're raising a fuss almost as soon as he enters their space.

I had this happen with a scout, but there's a trick to it. It seems they only consider scouts a threat while they are moving . I moved a scout into a neighbors territoy (onto an iron icon). The Persians asked me to move my units out of their territory. I said "oh, yeah, sure, I'll move them". But I left the scout there. Since the scout wasn't moving anymore the persians did not get mad about it. So I could leave a scout there for a long time. The scout was 2 squares from the capital, so maybe if it had been right next to a city, they would demand my scout to leave or wage war.