Queen Bess is utterly useless the AI dodges it without fail

[Jack Rabbit]

How is this still an issue its been an issue for years. The AI completely dodges every shot from queen bess making it utterly useless. Please fix this already

[DarkFenix]

It's not a bug, there's nothing to fix. If you don't like enemy AI dodging artillery, turn the difficulty down.

[Tisiphone Edge]

Choosing not to stand directly in the path of a giant cannon is a bug?

[Mr Chow]

The cheating A.I knows the exact spot it will hit yeh thats so realistic.

[SpiffyGonzales]

Some advice, use your more janky melee infantry against some of their much better elite infantry. Since your dudes take so long to get yeeted, you can just kill off both your infantry and theirs. They dont ALWAYS dodge, but yea on medium and harder they def make an effort to not get killed. If youre not into sacrificing units (I main bretonnia so I totally am) you could also target their less mobile units. Arty, slow monters, non-mobile war machines. Queen bess still has queen in the name for a reason. The thing is still OP (but balanced). It just requires more focus on targetting due to its slow attack

[A.Pot]

That is not broken, that is just the AI being smart and knowing how to micromanage. This is something a lot of players should try themselves when facing artillery.

[Risotto]

Anything even midly negative to the player, people will claim as a bug.. The easy, no-diffculty mobile games have ruined people.

[tinywars]

Oh my. I'm sorry but the responses to your comment are hilarious. Talk about white knighting. The artillery dodge mechanic AND the magic dodge mechanic is new to game three and it's hilariously overpowered. CA have acknowledged this themselves. It's baked into the game so they won't remove it but as has been said. You've got to play on a lower level for some reason to stop this. Maybe there is a mod to correct this ridiculous mechanic, I don't know.

[I LIVE AGAIN]

The cheating A.I knows the exact spot it will hit yeh thats so realistic.

[Atomsk]

Artillery is the most broken unit type in the game. If you have 4-5 tier 5 artillery units, you can take on the entire end game crises with a single stack.

[fmalfeas]

It's artillery. Just like with Bombardment Spells (which would be dodged even in 2) the solution is to pin them down. Vampires are a great choice for that, as a single small entity isn't going to take much damage from the artillery strike (unless you're horrifically unlucky and it lands directly on them THEN explodes), but the enemy melee units will blob up trying to kill the vamp.

And they'll get Bessed for their trouble. If there's still more when you finally run out of Bess ammo...well, why did you only bring Bess? Bring some Mortars too. And a carronade. And some Deck Gunners. In fact, SHOOT EVERYTHING, and don't let Mannan sort them out, raise them all and give them guns too. YAAAAR!

[UrbanMech]

Is my memory off. Doesn't hovering over enemy artillery units show you who they have targeted?

Or is that only for spectators?

If it is there then you can also dodge the enemies artillery in the same way as the AI so I don't see the issue.

[SpiffyGonzales]

Originally posted by GhostBear:

Is my memory off. Doesn't hovering over enemy artillery units show you who they have targeted?

Or is that only for spectators?

If it is there then you can also dodge the enemies artillery in the same way as the AI so I don't see the issue.

you can, i do hope they get rid of that in the next historical tho. that and firing arcs for projectiles.

[Grubbs008]

Originally posted by I LIVE AGAIN:

The cheating A.I knows the exact spot it will hit yeh thats so realistic.

Right and people say this is "Not a bug" we can't see where their artillery is aiming until it actually makes contact.

"Lower the difficulty" get bent.