Infantry, Armor Car and AA Attack Cruiser - And Win???

It happens to me too. How on Earth can a fully disembarked land unit engage a cruiser?

And anyhow, I find his behaviour weird sometimes.

None of these units have a anti-ship factor. How can they do damage?

Are you sure its only these three units?

They somehow do it, I have seen it because 'embarked troops have a tiny offensive factor' apparently.

If there is some "tiny offensive factor" I would still think the ship could disengage. This battle is going extremely slow as I watch the other thing that is interesting now is that the Cruiser is actually now gaining Morale and the attacking ground troops are static in Morale. I am having to dispatch a Battleship to go bombard the troops in hope of breaking up the battle, otherwise it looks like it will go literally forever.

Butter Ball Bill wrote:

They somehow do it, I have seen it because 'embarked troops have a tiny offensive factor' apparently.

The opposite happened to me.

I had a stack of 49 units near the beach (mosty infantry and light tanks). They were attacked by a single destroyer.

Couldn't move away. Guess they were mesmirized by its power. Only 3 remain. Not a scratch on the DD.

Might be a bug, might be poor design, but I think this should be changed. Especially if they expect people to spend money.

Sh1t like this coudl really ruin your war. And your fun in this game.

Hmm, well, either way this is a ridiculous situation. I highly doubt a small autocannon and a HMG could take out a ship.

Butter Ball Bill wrote:

Hmm, well, either way this is a ridiculous situation. I highly doubt a small autocannon and a HMG could take out a ship.

In this game, groundunits are regiments.

A full AA regiment would contain 50-100 large caliber guns. Imagine 50 Flak-88's lined up on the beach...would you wanna come close with a DD?

Even an infantry regiment has some heavy weapons. Be it heavy mortars, AT guns etc. A light cruiser has no better armor than a medium tank: 50 bazookas can make a nice sieve of a proud warship. If it ever gets in range.

BlackPrince2 wrote:

Butter Ball Bill wrote:

Hmm, well, either way this is a ridiculous situation. I highly doubt a small autocannon and a HMG could take out a ship.

In this game, groundunits are regiments.

A full AA regiment would contain 50-100 large caliber guns. Imagine 50 Flak-88's lined up on the beach...would you wanna come close with a DD?

Even an infantry regiment has some heavy weapons. Be it heavy mortars, AT guns etc. A light cruiser has no better armor than a medium tank: 50 bazookas can make a nice sieve of a proud warship. If it ever gets in range.

Your statement implied that the units (AC, AA, Inf) cannot do much damage to a ship. I disagree. Because they have more than just small weapons.

And of course the ship will return fire, and of course it would be stupid to get into range of said units to start with.

So yes, it makes sense that ground units cannot damage a ship, in game.

So the question still stands: what happened to the cruiser?

And why cant ground units move away when attacked by a ship?

BlackPrince2 wrote:

So yes, it makes sense that ground units cannot damage a ship, in game.

So the question still stands: what happened to the cruiser?

And why cant ground units move away when attacked by a ship?

Battle still raging.. 24 hours on now.. and very little progress.. brought a BB and another Cruiser over to help.. they are not "Engaged" but the original Cruiser still is. Except for me trying to figure out the issue it works out well for me in this case 1 Cruiser tying up 23 (now 21) land units. It is definitely either a bug or poor design... the cruiser for sure could disengage as could the land troops.. neither are pinned down.

Wow, lucky you. Definitely a bug.

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Hmm, well, I would hate to be the guy that got his troops stuck. I don't see what you can do about it though other than kill his troops and put him out of his misery.

24 hours.. very slow progress.. the stacked units are the bot so I don't feel too bad..