How does shore bombardment work?

Mr_B0narpte · Mar 31, 2014

It's a silly question, but I just wonder if I'm being efficient in my use of surface ships for coastal bombardment. Is it as simple as the shore bombardment value is the combat bonus you'll see in a land battle? I.e. will a surface ship with 14 shore bombardment will led to a -14 penalty to the enemy units being bombarded?

P.s. I know there's the arbitrary cap of -25 for the shore bombardment bonus.

Titan79 · Mar 31, 2014

I don't have a fresh example at hand but, recalling from memory, I'd say that it is definitely not so, Mr_B0narpte.

I remember that recently I had one battle where the enemy was making use of naval artillery to hinder my troops and the malus I had was something like 3.14%, i.e. it was not even a integer.

For the complete technical explanation I think we'll just have to wait for Pang to tell us...

Pang Bingxun · Mar 31, 2014

Code:

# Combat Modifier: Shore Bombardment Multiplier (Applies to the SB value of ships for org damage)
	0.002
# Shore Bombardment cap
	0.25

This is from db\misc.txt. I would assume that you get 0.2% malus for every point shore bombardement a fleet has. Having more than 125 SB in a fleet is of no good. Is there any indication that is not as simply as it seems?

Commander666 · Apr 9, 2014

I confirm that I have not reached any upper limit for amount of shore bombardment one might assemble (what you'll see in the battle result). Never had as high as 125 yet but close to that. Most reasonable that greater gives no benefit.

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How does shore bombardment work?

Mr_B0narpte

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