Anyone else seen the AI bomb bridges ?

tkobo · Post by **tkobo** » Jun 06 2005

I caught them doing it for the first time just now.

The AI bombed 2 bridges my forces were fighting over.None of my forces were on the bridges yet,so it was clearly aimed at the bridges themselves.

I didnt see the aircraft, but i saw the green text messages and checked the bridges, and sure enough,they were damaged and reppairing.

hithere · Post by **hithere** » Jun 06 2005

i have seen it alot. they then seem to put alot of arty on the other side so if you try to bridge with eng , they get killeded

tkobo · Post by **tkobo** » Jun 06 2005

Ive seen them use artillary also. But this is the first time ive seen them BOMB a bridge.
Its a different message.
They are not bombarding the bridge, they bomb it.

hithere · Post by **hithere** » Jun 06 2005

oh i see what you mean. i don't think i have seen that

Shadow · Post by **Shadow** » Jun 06 2005

Yes, the AI has blown up a bridge on my face more than once. That's why it's imperative to quickly dispatch the enemy units guarding the bridge and take the ground ahead of it since bridging can take a month in the best of the cases.

tkobo · Post by **tkobo** » Jun 06 2005

No, your misunderstanding what was happening.

The AI was using aircraft to bomb the bridges as they fell to me.
The enemy ground forces were not the ones damaging the bridge.
And the bridge was already under my zone of command.

The AI sent out aircraft and bombed the bridge AFTER i had control of it.
They lowered them both to about 86% in one bomb run on each.

Post by **Balthagor** » Jun 06 2005

Bomber or fighter class?

aegisx · Post by **aegisx** » Jun 06 2005

Thats pretty cool...

tkobo · Post by **tkobo** » Jun 06 2005

The only aircraft i saw in the area were typhons and eurofighters out of englands bases.

I didnt see the aircraft make the strike.

First thing i saw was a message in green text that read circa "your bridge at coordinates ***** has been bombed.

I stopped the game and looked to see exactly what the message said.
I found that there were 2 of the messages.

I than looked and found a different message ,not having to do with the bridge,but the kind i was used too.The message that reads circa "you are being bombarded".
I made sure the messages were indeed different.Which they were.The two of interest say "BOMB" not bombarded and they only mention the bridges ,no units.

So i than went and looked for the bridges.There were easy too find.They were the last 2 bridges my forces had just extended zone of control over on the front line.
Upon inspection i found that none of my troops were on either bridge and that both bridges had been damaged down too about 86%.

This was the first time I had seen this occur.

Alot of the EU forces didnt seem to have enough supplied to fire on my troops as they advanced.
I am assumming this is what caused the AI to use the aircraft on the bridges.

3iff · Post by **3iff** » Jun 07 2005

I saw this last night...

Paris fighter/bombers (Typhoons?) attacked a bridge and did 1% damage.
They were also throwing a lot of cruise missiles at a town just north of Bordeaux. I think they were targetting an entrenched garrison unit.

It's almost certainly happened to me before but in the heat of battle a lot of things go unnoticed...

Commie · Post by **Commie** » Jun 07 2005

As Belarus, it's difficult to get to Ukraine, only 2 roads, and one on the west has one bridge at border. Was hoping for a pincer movement, and had vast force by the bridge, but the damn AI bombed the bridge before we could get to it! Naturally it left all my non-amphibious(all of them!) units waiting impotently on the shoreline, the attack in tatters!

3iff · Post by **3iff** » Jun 07 2005

If you can build bridge-laying transport, now's the time to get some!

tkobo · Post by **tkobo** » Jun 07 2005

Well, im very glad to see this is a more common practice than i had at first thought.

Ill have to keep a better eye out in games to come

Commie · Post by **Commie** » Jun 07 2005

If you can build bridge-laying transport, now's the time to get some!

Well now I can add that to the list of useful units that were never useful in any game previously! I already had supply trucks and recon units on that list, now bridging units! Great stuff to actually need to use various units in a game!

aegisx · Post by **aegisx** » Jun 07 2005

I need to slow the game down more when in combat ... might see some of these messages.