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OBA targetting empty hex
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2016 6:24 pm
by sprior
Can OBA target an empty hex? I can't seem to get it plop down in the middle of a group of units
RE: OBA targetting empty hex
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2016 6:29 pm
by blackcloud6
I think all you can do is target a unit.
RE: OBA targetting empty hex
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2016 7:05 pm
by 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.
RE: OBA targetting empty hex
Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2016 7:43 pm
by Moltke71
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?
RE: OBA targetting empty hex
Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2016 8:20 pm
by kylania
As Peter said, he set one hex as the target but it ended up hitting an empty hex due to drift/error/randomness.
RE: OBA targetting empty hex
Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2016 8:27 pm
by Gerry4321
ORIGINAL: Bismarck
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.
RE: OBA targetting empty hex
Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2016 11:32 pm
by 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 -
RE: OBA targetting empty hex
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2016 3:21 am
by Paullus
They are targeting your units but misses.
RE: OBA targetting empty hex
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2016 9:38 am
by DoubleDeuce
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.
RE: OBA targetting empty hex
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2016 11:22 am
by Paullus
They can attack you before you are visible but their target hex may drift.