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OBA targetting empty hex - 3/1/2016 8:24:17 PM   
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Status: offline 		Can OBA target an empty hex? I can't seem to get it plop down in the middle of a group of units

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RE: OBA targetting empty hex - 3/1/2016 8:29:16 PM   
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Status: offline 		I think all you can do is target a unit.

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RE: OBA targetting empty hex - 3/1/2016 9:05:38 PM   
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Status: offline 		You need to have a unit as the target. The target hex will then drift a little bit if you are unlucky or perhaps lucky for a better shot.

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RE: OBA targetting empty hex - 3/13/2016 10:43:41 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Paullus

You need to have a unit as the target. The target hex will then drift a little bit if you are unlucky or perhaps lucky for a better shot.


I just played the first turn of "Fighting among the Ruins". The German AI shot up a vacant hes with OBA on the first turn. How?

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RE: OBA targetting empty hex - 3/13/2016 11:21:00 PM   
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Status: offline 		As Peter said, he set one hex as the target but it ended up hitting an empty hex due to drift/error/randomness.

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RE: OBA targetting empty hex - 3/13/2016 11:27:53 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Paullus

You need to have a unit as the target. The target hex will then drift a little bit if you are unlucky or perhaps lucky for a better shot.


I just played the first turn of "Fighting among the Ruins". The German AI shot up a vacant hes with OBA on the first turn. How?


It hits the hex and all surrounding hexes I think. And then there is the drift possibility as mentioned.

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RE: OBA targetting empty hex - 3/14/2016 2:32:09 AM   
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Status: offline 		AI seems to be able to target empty hexes with OBA since in one scenario the AI was dropping mortars before I had even made contact with the enemy -

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RE: OBA targetting empty hex - 3/14/2016 6:21:02 AM   
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RE: OBA targetting empty hex - 3/21/2016 12:38:32 PM   
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ORIGINAL: GregN

AI seems to be able to target empty hexes with OBA since in one scenario the AI was dropping mortars before I had even made contact with the enemy -

Pretty sure I saw this too. In a Scenario I created, on the very 1st turn with all Russian units way back, 2 boards away, behind woods, they called 70mm OBA in on the Germans, whose single test unit was not visible (on the backside of a 2 level hill). I know that the AI doesn't need a Radio to call OBA but it does appear that they can target area where there are no visible units. I will see if I can reproduce it.

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RE: OBA targetting empty hex - 3/21/2016 2:22:17 PM   
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Status: offline 		They can attack you before you are visible but their target hex may drift.

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