Stack bombardment?

[felagund]

The new stack movement commands are great, but is there any way to bombard with a stack of units (say artillery) all at once? or do I have to bombard one unit at a time still? I have tried using the Auto-bombard button but I can't figure out exactly what this does. Looks the same as normal bombard to me...

 

[Kiech]

Sorry dude...would be a nice feature though.

Autobombard means it will bomb the same square next turn, really only usefull for long sieges. Especially nice when you don't want to actually attack someones uber-city, and you have a large stack of bombers.

 

[Willem]

One thing to keep in mind when using auto-bombard is that the orders get cancelled when next to an enemy unit. So unless you're using Artillery, which can bombard two squares away, it won't work. You'll have to go into Preferences and turn off the Cancel Orders When Next To Enemy Unit flag.

 

[SesnOfWthr]

Didn't I read something in Bamspeedy's Beyond Sid game like this? I think it was something like he hit the "B" button a lot?

*goes off to look for it*

 

[ummmm........]

Yeah, while the animation for your first bombard is playing, if you B, left click, B, left click, etc. you can cause all of the other units in the stack to bombard one after another while you go pee or something. Of course, if you have the animations turned off, I don't guess this would really work.