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- 8/27/2003 7:13:03 AM

Fred98

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[There was a comment that some artillery can only provide attack shifts and some can only provide defensive shift. Can we have this point clarified.

I am aware that in any given battle, the attacker can only apply a maximum number of arty (as shown on the toolbar). But what about the defender? Is the defender limited to a max number of arty units?

And I read a comment somewhere that arty could be used in EITHER attack or defence in one turn. Perhaps I misread something. Please clarify.

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- 8/27/2003 11:53:22 AM

Rob Gjessing

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[QUOTE=Joe 98]There is a screen shot a part of the way down that web page.

Its shows some odds of 7-1

It also shows Shift + 4

But I would have thought that the shifts are: 6 + 1 + 1 � 1 = Shifts + 7

Why does it say Shifts + 4 ?

Joe[/QUOTE]

Ok the odds have been calculated like this:

[IMG]http://stuff.robjess.com/archives/art-combat-2.jpg[/IMG]
note that the image quality has been reduced due to sizing and compression - sorry!

Reading Right to left from the combat panel:

Attack Shifts
+6 shifts for ART
+1 shift for barrage
+1 shift for leadership
Total Attacker Positive Shifts is +8

Defence Shifts
Defenders always get -3 shifts - but the attacking force is getting two postitive shifts from the directions it is attacking - This can be confirmed by the two green arrow heads to the extreme right of the panel. Note that whilst they are actually attacking from 3 directions.. they are only getting 2 shifts (the direction reflected by the orange arrow head isnt contributing to a shift as they have units adjecent to them). So therefore, -3 defence shifts but the attacker has 2 tactical shifts, so this equates to:
-1 defence shift
-2 ART defence shifts

And then notice up on the blue banner where it says 22 (thats the defence strength) - see the additional -1 : this is an additional -1 shift because the defending units are Elite! So:
-1 Elite
Total Defence shifts is -4

So all up, attack is +8 shifts, defence is -4 shifts, so the result should be +4 shifts to the attacker!

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