Land ranged units are super-strong when embarked (whoops: vanilla bug, not the mod's)

[wobuffet]

Naval combat is so much more interesting in VEM... ships are actually useful . I just finished a very enjoyable game as Elizabeth where I cruised around killing dozens of embarked units and ships with my Submarines.

Anyway, it looks like VEM makes Cannons, Crossbowmen, etc. super-strong (stronger than contemporary ships, even!) on defense when embarked.

My city can one-shot-kill an embarked Skirmisher (which has 5 in water), but can hardly damage an embarked Cannon (which has 39 for some reason):

edit: Ugh, I did a terrible job taking screenshots of this. My bad.

Spoiler :

edit #2: I guess it's just hardcoded and doesn't have to do with the mod at all. Sorry for reporting this in the wrong place.

 

[Txurce]

The vanilla game is responsible for the anomaly of ranged units being harder to kill by ranged units - including while embarked.

 

[wobuffet]

The vanilla game is responsible for the anomaly of ranged units being harder to kill by ranged units - including while embarked.

Ah, I never noticed in vanilla. I know ranged units depend on their ranged strength for defense so they don't one-shot each other all the time, but I figured this was (or could be) overridden when embarked. I guess not?

 

[Txurce]

No, the same basic principles apply on water, because they're hard-coded.

 

[wobuffet]

No, the same basic principles apply on water, because they're hard-coded.

Lame. Thanks for the info/quick response though!

 

[The_J]

Moderator Action: Moved to the normal bug reports.