Purpose of Bombard/bomb

[Relkathi]

What effect does it have? As far as I can tell a really nice graphic, but nothing of value.

i.e Would bombard the units that are dug in prior to assaulting them, they are still at 100% and the destroy the heck out of me.

[Alpha2518]

It's not for destruction of enemy reinforcements, its too keep the enemy from reinfocing. So lets say you want to attack battallion A. It will be reinforced by battallions B and C. Battallion C has heavy tanks and will come in B phase because of how many action points it has left. So you bombard which takes away it's action points too 0 and now it can't reinforce and you now have a heavy tank free battle.

Got multiple units that can reinforce? Well bombard the ones you don't want fighting out of the possibile reinforcement catagory or as many as you can too shape the battle you want. Action points are not just for movement, they determine when and in what phase a unit can come too battle. This is why a tank destroyer battlion with 2 action points can reinforce a nearby battle in phase B. But lets say you are attacked in the same place and you need those tank destroyers. Well now it can't reinforce because you used it in a prior battle (0 action points) or it was bombarded (also 0 action points).

[Wyatt]

takes away action points. Enemies need action points to move and participate in battles. So if you want to punch through a line of defense you bombard all the units you dont want to fight and then start the battle.