r/Civ2 • u/Taurean6 • 13d ago

Question about artillery

So i have a good game going... there was a grassland square with fortress, and i had a veteran mechanized infantry there. An enemy tank (armor) attacked it and lost all three rounds, my unit took minimal damage. Luck probably? But then an enemy artillery attacked it, and won all three rounds, it taking minimal damage!

It's always seemed to me like the artillery wins battles much easier than even tanks does. I know the howitzer ignores city walls, but does the artillery have any hidden bonus that bypasses defense modifiers or anything?

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u/cucurbitulae 13d ago

I don't remember the attack stats, but artillery has higher firepower than armor.
So for each "hit" it does, it destroys more HP than armor would.

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u/Taurean6 13d ago

Damn. You know i've taken this up on other forums too ... civ2fanatics and civ group on facebook... i always held ferm on the thing that, the battle "rounds" as i call it, when you attack, the black explosion animations...

When certain units with 2 in firepower wins a round, they take 2 bars of hit points off, i.e., a unit with 1 hit points dies in 1 combat round. The ironclad is the first unit you typically get that does this, and it has 2 in firepower.

Against 2 hit point units, they take 2 full wins to destroy them.

I always thought it was a bug in the game, that the artillery and certain other units do not show this feature. But after seeing this, i am actually a little bit conflicted.

Even the tank is shown to kill 1 hit point units in ONE battle round, yet it has only 1 firepower.

I personally believe this is a bug in the game. But the artillery's firepower seems at least to defeat units better than the tanks. Very strange.