Re: Units Being Destroyed First By Bombardment

[cgannon64]

I'm playing a game where I'm fighting a long, slow war with the Aztecs. I didn't want to take them over as quickly as possible, I wanted to drag them into the ground through bombing first and then take them with paratroopers. Anyway, I have about 60 bombers, and I've noticed something:

Units in cities are not attacked first until they are destroyed. If there is a unit in the city, you can hit the unit, or a pop point, or an improvement, or miss. The only times that the game has a "unit-first" clause, IIRC, is when it is a unit on a tile. The tile will not be damaged until the unit is destroyed, and this was in vanilla civ, IIRC.

All this is with air bombardment, not artillery. I just wanted to point this out. If land, sea, and air bombardment are all like this, I don't see a problem with it.

 

[Rustypipe]

I have noticed this as well.
Most so with air, and water siege, can't confirm it with artillery

 

[Catt]

Air bombard works just like all bonbardment worked in PTW -- with chances to hit units, improvements, or population. Land bombardment always targets units first -- only after all units are redlined will land bombardment have a chance at hitting city improvements or population.

 

[cgannon64]

Yet another reason why bombers are great in C3C. I seriously prefer them to Artys now (they may be statisitically weaker, but in my current game my 60 Bombers don't miss very often).

 

[General Porkins]

The bombers are great. They are really a necessity when fighting modern wars. They not only destroy tile improvements, but the craters make them even better.

 

[redhulkz]

Originally posted by General Porkins
The bombers are great. They are really a necessity when fighting modern wars. They not only destroy tile improvements, but the craters make them even better.

craters will slow down travel speed? or just for show

 

[warpstorm]

They have to be cleared to work the tile. They can make a city kinda useless for a while.

 

[Rustypipe]

Usally when i'm crushing my last civ on the map and have some time on my hands i will bombard every squar around the city and let it starv out and then move it / bombard the city. I usally raze these cities becuase i don't feel like working the land agian, plus leaving a crator of destruction in your wake is always nice

 

[cgannon64]

Craters turn the tile into 1 food 1 shield, IIRC, so they are great for starving the city down. With a little patience, you can REALLY wreck a civ's core with bombers now...