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Omisan
03-07-2007, 05:01
It would be nice if there was a way to see the exact range of each weapons. As far as I know, it's not in the unit descriptions and you can't see it on the battlefield. There should be a "show range" key for battles at least.

Knowing if a target is actually in the cannon crews' sight would help too. Sometimes inside citadels, they will shoot at targets they can't even see and waste ammunition on obstacles. The missile icon should always be red if the unit can't get a clear shot.
vonsch
03-07-2007, 05:17
It would be nice if there was a way to see the exact range of each weapons. As far as I know, it's not in the unit descriptions and you can't see it on the battlefield. There should be a "show range" key for battles at least.

Knowing if a target is actually in the cannon crews' sight would help too. Sometimes inside citadels, they will shoot at targets they can't even see and waste ammunition on obstacles. The missile icon should always be red if the unit can't get a clear shot.

You can see IF something is in range. But be nice to have a radius of fire like the radius of movement on the campaign map. But you learn to eyeball it.
Hollerbach
03-07-2007, 06:17
Well you can actually see the range of your units, though not so clearly as a highlighted radius on the ground or something. When you have a missile unit selected, the cursor (or some part of it) will be green if the spot you are pointing to is in range, and red otherwise. So you can see how far short you are from your target and move that distance (which does require some amount of 'eyeballing').

But yeah, if the entire in range area could be highlighted that would be really useful, particularly during deployment. But you could have said this way back in STW and it's never made it in. Maybe it's intentional to prevent missile units being too easy to use or something? Dunno.
holycow
03-07-2007, 08:02
To weigh in my opinion, I wish missle/artillery units had a target area option instead of just targeting units/wall/tower.
FactionHeir
03-07-2007, 10:28
Look in the export descr units file for ranges