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Artillery can shoot over mountains - 8/4/2005 8:42:13 PM

Latour_Maubourg

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Dunno whether this has been mentioned before but when you have (normal) artillery on a hill and an enemy unit is behind a mountain within range you can shoot at it and hit it. a bit unrealistic I think...

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RE: Artillery can shoot over mountains - 8/4/2005 8:55:19 PM

Hard Sarge

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yea, I seen something like that, think it is part of the abstract ranges

(think mine was a Inf Div on the hilltop)

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RE: Artillery can shoot over mountains - 8/4/2005 11:05:23 PM

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Did you find a use for howitzers?

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RE: Artillery can shoot over mountains - 8/5/2005 12:57:58 AM

YohanTM2

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Wow, never heard of mortars for this period except for on bomb ketches. Not too mobile <g>

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RE: Artillery can shoot over mountains - 8/5/2005 3:17:20 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Latour_Maubourg

Dunno whether this has been mentioned before but when you have (normal) artillery on a hill and an enemy unit is behind a mountain within range you can shoot at it and hit it. a bit unrealistic I think...

L-M

Ahhh. Did not know that. I'll put on my list. Thanks!

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RE: Artillery can shoot over mountains - 8/5/2005 6:53:41 PM

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I once got hit by a missile attack. The attaking unit turned to be and arty in a watch tower, firing at my inf over a mountain range. Of course, at first I didn't know from where I was been attacked, I couldnt' see through the mountains. Later I advanced pass the hills and discovered the arty firing at my unit.
However, I wasn't able to use my arty the same way, so I thought it was a one time problem related to the arty being in the tower.

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RE: Artillery can shoot over mountains - 8/6/2005 9:10:53 AM

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Gotta be careful with this. Although there might just possibly be a bug here, your line of sight isn't necessarily the same as their line of sight - I have often been shot up by people I couldn't see yet.

For example, they may be able to see further that you can due to advanced scouting or unit type.

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RE: Artillery can shoot over mountains - 8/6/2005 7:18:40 PM

carburo

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Agree about the LOS, but they were shooting over the mountains. Unless they had the cruise missile upgrade, I cant� see how they could. It only happened once though, not a big deal in my opinion.

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RE: Artillery can shoot over mountains - 8/7/2005 1:40:48 AM

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I don't see why this is unrealistic. As I learned in physics, a cannon ball should be able to strike the side of a mountain, forcing a rock of similar mass on the other side of the mountain to shoot out and hit the enemy...

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RE: Artillery can shoot over mountains - 8/8/2005 3:23:08 PM

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ORIGINAL: Gil R.

I don't see why this is unrealistic. As I learned in physics, a cannon ball should be able to strike the side of a mountain, forcing a rock of similar mass on the other side of the mountain to shoot out and hit the enemy...

Mmmmmm.... the old geophysical attack option..... start a massive rock slide wiping out the enemy reserves with one concentrated salvo, so long as it is the reverse slope which comes tumbling down and not the slope your own troops are at the bottom of