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Hi guys,

I can't figure why this special cruiser I created for bombardment is just sitting in front of the planet and doing nothing ? The only excplanation I can see is : he's trying to bombard the planed with the fighters in the hangar bay, but they are just going in and out of the bay.

Am I doing something wrong ? Something about tactics ? My destroyers with torpedoes and the same fighter bay are managing just fine bombarding this thing...

Thanks for the help !

Are you using atomic devastators? There was a problem with those weapons because their range is too short to reach the planet at the ships' normal closest approach. This was supposedly fixed though...

Try manually maneuvering the ship as close to the planet as it will go, and then try again.

Yes indeed, I've tried to put in an image but it's not working properly, here it is :

https://imgur.com/86FfL1i

Ok I've relogged very quickly to try what you've proposed and it worked... So I can confirm that this particuliar model of atomic devastator is indeed buggued (I'm using the v3), thanks for the help !

I'm bumping this thread because this problem is still happening to me : bombardment can be impossible with these weapons (atomic devastator) for no apparent reason... Tonight I managed to bombard a planet on my first try with 4 ships at quite a long range, and 10 minutes later, another planet was impossible to bombard...

Anyone else still encountering this ? What other relevant weapon is there to bombard planets with ?

Sorry folks, I thought we fixed this Atomic Devastator issue. A fix for that should be in one of the next two updates.

Thank you very much Erik !

Tried changing the range myself in a components definition xml I found but it doesn't seem to take in-game...

Oh well, guess I'll have to wait for the next patch to wipe out the Boskarans threatening to overrun us.

EnDSchultz wrote: Thu Mar 17, 2022 5:08 pm Tried changing the range myself in a components definition xml I found but it doesn't seem to take in-game...

Oh well, guess I'll have to wait for the next patch to wipe out the Boskarans threatening to overrun us.

You'll need to start a new game after any data changes, they don't apply to existing saves.