Has arty been changed for C3C?

[Migman]

I have noticed that arty bombardments hit their targets more often in C3C than in previous incarnations. Also, a bombardment is now more likely to "injure" a defending unit in a city rather than destroying an improvement. Is there any validity to my theory?

 

[Jaybe]

Bombers have higher strength (12 now). Artillery has the same strength, but ground bombardment against cities always targets units* while before they did the ol' unit(50%)/improvement(25%)/cit(25%) routine.

*Walls go before units. If Great Wall is involved, then buggy response (from what I've read).

 

[The Last Conformist]

Basically, if the AI has the Great Wall, forget using artillery against towns.

Or use 6x the amounts of units you'd normally use.

 

[frekk]

If you notice in the editor, artillery also seems to have been flagged with lethal bombardment as a default (it is not in vanilla)

 

[player1 fanatic]

only air bombers are lethal

 

[zerksees]

Artillery is definitely more effective in C3C IMO. I have not measured the percentages but targets are hit much more often than they were in PTW or vanilla. I loved artillery before this change.

C3C artillery will hit units and all units take losses down to one hit point. After that the city improvements and population can be hit. I have modified tactics slightly because of this change, but it is nice to take a city with bombard support and have lots of improvements still left in there.

I am not sure about the walls going before units. I don't recall that happening but the AI doesn't put up walls that much.