Chain Lightning Attack, or Bug?

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    • Chain Lightning Attack, or Bug?

      Three targets, each one in a different province.
      All are within the range of one artillery stack.

      What I have seen in the past is that after an artillery stack attacks a target, the stack waits for about an hour before firing again.

      In this instance though, the stack attacked a target and destroyed it.
      Then in less than a minute, the same artillery stack attacked a second target, again destroying it.
      The artillery stack then proceeded to attack a third target, this time not destroying it.
      At this point the artillery stack showed the normal count down timer I expect to see.

      Is this behavior part of the intentional design, or an undocumented feature (bug)? ?(

    • Hydralysk wrote:

      Three targets, each one in a different province.
      All are within the range of one artillery stack.

      What I have seen in the past is that after an artillery stack attacks a target, the stack waits for about an hour before firing again.

      In this instance though, the stack attacked a target and destroyed it.
      Then in less than a minute, the same artillery stack attacked a second target, again destroying it.
      The artillery stack then proceeded to attack a third target, this time not destroying it.
      At this point the artillery stack showed the normal count down timer I expect to see.

      Is this behavior part of the intentional design, or an undocumented feature (bug)? ?(
      Intentional design - 1 shot kills reset the attack clock - now you know why MRLS is so badass
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    • Should be a bug unless all units in a splash zone?? Not even sure if a thing on arty.

      Only units I believe can attack multiple times < an hr are ships you can fire at one from distance then get an attck/defnse volley if collide. Or if in collision battle.... can fire at another target and still get defense volley on collision battle.

      or

      dvanced inf with attack at range .. can shell at 20 miles ... then re-engage on a collision battle in less than an hr.
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    • Dealer of Death wrote:

      Hydralysk wrote:

      Three targets, each one in a different province.
      All are within the range of one artillery stack.

      What I have seen in the past is that after an artillery stack attacks a target, the stack waits for about an hour before firing again.

      In this instance though, the stack attacked a target and destroyed it.
      Then in less than a minute, the same artillery stack attacked a second target, again destroying it.
      The artillery stack then proceeded to attack a third target, this time not destroying it.
      At this point the artillery stack showed the normal count down timer I expect to see.

      Is this behavior part of the intentional design, or an undocumented feature (bug)? ?(
      Intentional design - 1 shot kills reset the attack clock - now you know why MRLS is so badass
      really?? that sounds like a developer who loves arty as that seems unreasonable. heck I single kill units via strike... same principle I should be able to go about my business instead of return to base.
      "And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him "

      aka ...The killer formerly known as BuckeyeChamp

    • Buckeyechamp wrote:

      Should be a bug unless all units in a splash zone?? Not even sure if a thing on arty.

      Only units I believe can attack multiple times < an hr are ships you can fire at one from distance then get an attck/defnse volley if collide. Or if in collision battle.... can fire at another target and still get defense volley on collision battle.

      or

      dvanced inf with attack at range .. can shell at 20 miles ... then re-engage on a collision battle in less than an hr.
      No, not a bug, the Devs are well aware of it.
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    • KFGauss wrote:

      Dealer of Death wrote:

      Intentional design - 1 shot kills reset the attack clock - now you know why MRLS is so badass
      8| Scooby Doo says, "Rut!?"
      Now I'm wondering if I cluelessly missed that tidbit when reading other posts, or if folks just neglected to mention/emphasize it.

      That's the sort of nugget that deserves its own heading in the Wiki.
      Shhhhhhhhh!
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    • I must admit.. the guy that posted death by arty... his opponent sounds like a only guy who stopped me in my tracks (for a bit). I was demolishing his coal partner and he flew in that exact same stack like 2 min before i gt to airbase. demolished my ass.

      But I back all the way to coast having huge stack of frigs ..... I lured him into an ambush and took out most his air support by frigs and my air supp counter.

      Once air was gone was able to hit him with some missiles... enough to stop him in tracks. Dude was cool and we talked out a peace as he was just defending a partner and no beef with him.

      But advanced MRLS / AA with a Air supp defense is a hard nut to cr ack (cant believe a banned word...lol).
      "And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him "

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    • Hydralysk wrote:

      Dealer of Death wrote:

      Intentional design - 1 shot kills reset the attack clock - now you know why MRLS is so badass
      Well, it is a nice feature.Though how often can you line up your targets so that each dies in one volley?

      I wouldn't even try to set something like that up.
      I bet it was his opponent "who set it up" ... sure this guy thought same thing as most assume as would be dead for an hr.... so he broke up units to sacrifice 1 or 2 unts to tie up MRLS in a collision volley. Good strategy... bad coding
      "And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him "

      aka ...The killer formerly known as BuckeyeChamp

    • Dealer of Death wrote:

      Hydralysk wrote:

      Three targets, each one in a different province.
      All are within the range of one artillery stack.

      What I have seen in the past is that after an artillery stack attacks a target, the stack waits for about an hour before firing again.

      In this instance though, the stack attacked a target and destroyed it.
      Then in less than a minute, the same artillery stack attacked a second target, again destroying it.
      The artillery stack then proceeded to attack a third target, this time not destroying it.
      At this point the artillery stack showed the normal count down timer I expect to see.

      Is this behavior part of the intentional design, or an undocumented feature (bug)? ?(
      Intentional design - 1 shot kills reset the attack clock - now you know why MRLS is so badass
      close one
      killing a whole stack in general sets the next cooldown to 60 seconds
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    • Teburu wrote:

      killing a whole stack in general sets the next cooldown to 60 seconds
      I knew that bombardment units immediately get another shot if they destroy their target; I think it's the same in Call of War. But I didn't know about the 60 second cooldown, rather than the unit automatically switching instantly to its next target (if multiple enemy stacks are in range).This is quite important, because that one minute gives you time to give a specific order (select which stack to target next, or move to a different position) before your unit uses up its 'free' attack on something you don't necessarily want to start attacking yet.

      What do you mean by "in general"? Are there cases where it doesn't do this?