As I understood the mechanic, planes could attack an enemy unit within their range, which would kick off an attack timer. If the enemy unit is moving, the plane will travel to the location that the enemy unit was originally at when the attack was given. If the enemy unit was still within the planes' range, when the attack timer ended the planes would teleport to the enemy unit's new location and do the appropriate damage. If the enemy unit was able to escape the planes' range before the end of the attack timer, the planes would do no damage and would have to return to base to refuel.
However, in the screenshot below, my stack (which had been inside the planes' range when the attack command was given) is outside the planes' range and yet took damage, which I understood as impossible. Is my understanding incorrect, or is there something else at play here?
I’ve also had this happen before, but I just thought it was normal or something. Even when my units get out of range they still somehow take damage. Maybe here is a certain range where planes still do damage, and they managed to hit your stack because it was barely outside the circle?
Maybe it was still within splash damage range. That looks incredibly close!
Yea I considered splash damage, but that would require the plane to attack the ground at the edge of the range, which I didn't think was how it worked. Maybe it is.
I also thought it could have something to do with some planes in the stack having a longer range (you can kinda see the outer circle in the bottom right).
I think it's just normal <5k melee range. Direct plane attacks are handled like melee battles.
That's what I've assumed for plane splash damage too. But what did the plane attack to get splash damage on my stack--the ground?
Perhaps it got so close that it hit your stack anyway at melee range? The planes automatic following of a unit that moves away from it must have allowed the splash damage to reach you before it detected that it was out of range, or something along those lines.jubjub bird wrote:
That's what I've assumed for plane splash damage too. But what did the plane attack to get splash damage on my stack--the ground?
I think so. Freezy once alluded to something like this calling it "the point of impact". See (this)jubjub bird wrote:
But what did the plane attack to get splash damage on my stack--the ground?
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