Error With Amphibious Assault

[El Conquistador 185]

I'm in the middle of a game where I am conducting an amphibious assault against Hawaii and keep encountering a fatal error with the game I can't bypass. My opponent has a sub in the sea zone and I sent in three destroyers to protect the transports and also a couple of cruisers and Battleships to support the assault on the island. The fatal error occurred after adding the attacking cruisers and battleships so I suspect it has to do with that. I submitted a support ticket already but I need a patch to fix the problem or forfeit the game.

[Ris Dnalor]

Not sure if this applies to your situation or not.

If you do shore bombardment from a given sea zone to support an amphibious assault, you cannot also do naval combat in that sea zone.

It's either shore bombardment -or- naval combat, and not both.

At least that's been my understanding how it is supposed to work in this edition of A&A.

[El Conquistador 185]

Originally posted by Ris Dnalor:

Not sure if this applies to your situation or not.

If you do shore bombardment from a given sea zone to support an amphibious assault, you cannot also do naval combat in that sea zone.

It's either shore bombardment -or- naval combat, and not both.

At least that's been my understanding how it is supposed to work in this edition of A&A.

Possibly although I wasn't aware of that if that's the case. In any event, its not throwing the error in a way that allows me to correct it.

[Julius Borisov]

This will be hotfixed this week (hopefully today/tomorrow).

[Devil Doug]

Originally posted by Julius Borisov:

This will be hotfixed this week (hopefully today/tomorrow).

Why would a battle ship or cruiser, having just won the naval conquest, be disallowed from providing shore bombardment in the same area for the ensuing amphibious assault?

That is anti-realistic in my opinion, and it may help explain why some other players have recently complained that they don't see the real value in these expensive units.

I just did a dummy round one with Germany attacking Egypt, and found that these limitations of my German battle ship made it worthless in that conflict too.

Please consider the above - That's all I am asking.

[Julius Borisov]

Why - because the rules of the boardgame say that. We won't change that behavior.

[Devil Doug]

Originally posted by Julius Borisov:

Why - because the rules of the boardgame say that. We won't change that behavior.

Fair enough.

[El Conquistador 185]

Today's hotfix didn't solve the problem with my game in progress. Was today's fix not intended for that problem or does the fix not help a game that has already encountered this exception but only prevent it from happening going forward?

[El Conquistador 185]

Originally posted by Sgt Slaughter:

Today's hotfix didn't solve the problem with my game in progress. Was today's fix not intended for that problem or does the fix not help a game that has already encountered this exception but only prevent it from happening going forward?

Doesn't matter. My opponent booted me from the game.