Battleship/Cruiser Bombardments

[Darth Cerritus]

I've had a few cases where I'm doing an amphibious assault and none of my cruisers or battleship shots happen when I move them to a region where the assault is occurring during the combat phase.

Is there a bug or am I doing something wrong when making that combat move? I just had a turn where I moved four battleships and a cruiser along with my transports and none of them fired. I only got to roll 2 men for 1 and my dudes were blown away.

Any feedback in that area? Thanks!

[diaper for life]

ya after u landed troops did u click the land? also i thing there a bug cause the defenders get to fight back. it should kill them if u get a hit.

[Sevaekor]

You have to actually order your bombardment ships to "attack" the land that you're performing the amphibious assault on.

Like brandon2005 though, I was always under the impression that bombardment actually deleted any affected units before they could counterattack, much like a submarines sneak attack does against ships.

Maybe that's different in the 1942 version though.

[Darth Cerritus]

Thanks - this helps, so I should see one of the spaghetti arrows pointing toward the land from my cruises/battleships?

If either of you happen to remember....is there an indicator or something in the user interface I can look at to see if I clicked all the right things?

Thanks!

[diaper for life]

click on unit it tells u what its donig

[O Lucky Day O]

Originally posted by Darth Cerritus:

Thanks - this helps, so I should see one of the spaghetti arrows pointing toward the land from my cruises/battleships?

If either of you happen to remember....is there an indicator or something in the user interface I can look at to see if I clicked all the right things?

Thanks!

There is an arrow that will be shown when the move has been made for bombardment, yes.

[Darth Cerritus]

Thanks! This was all very helpful!

[Lozmoid]

And that arrow will not be the usual blue colour, it will be blue with a white stripe running through it to indicate a special move.

[gbelle]

Not a bug, defenders get to return fire in this edition. Another thing you need is to have as many land units in the combat as BB/CA shots. So no having say 4 BB's fire with only 1 inf doing a raid.

[O Lucky Day O]

Yeah, bombardment getting the free hit was last seen in the Revised edition rule set I think.