Mortar Boats

samba_liten · Sun Sep 21, 2014 12:25 am

I take it these are meant to provide a kind of shore bombardment. Should I be building them as the CSA? I can imagine them being of some use in the western theatre.

If i build some down by Fort Pickens, will they easy the taking of said fort? Are they better or worse than land borne siege artillery? Do they fire if a land battle occurs adjacent to them?

Captain_Orso · Sun Sep 21, 2014 2:45 pm

The Mortar Boats only provide a +1 Siege bonus to a Siege you are laying in an adjacent land region. Since such abilities are not cumulative you will never need more than 1 in a siege and if you actually have a Siege Artillery already, it will add nothing addition to the siege.

They don't actually do anything in normal combat--offensive and defensive values are 0--and they won't provide any help if you are being besieged.

samba_liten · Sun Sep 21, 2014 2:50 pm

Thanks captain.

ohms_law · Sun Sep 21, 2014 5:26 pm

They do help to block enemy harbors, though.
...I think.

Captain_Orso · Mon Sep 22, 2014 8:18 am

Now that you mention it, if they are considered naval combat vessels, then they probably block supply and help block river crossings too; although I'd hardly buy them for those purposes.

Njordr · Mon Sep 22, 2014 9:51 am

Captain_Orso wrote:The Mortar Boats only provide a +1 Siege bonus to a Siege you are laying in an adjacent land region. Since such abilities are not cumulative you will never need more than 1 in a siege and if you actually have a Siege Artillery already, it will add nothing addition to the siege.

And what if the force besieging a structure is led by a Siege Expert or Engineer commender? Does a mortar boat stack its bonus?

ohms_law · Mon Sep 22, 2014 3:30 pm

I'm fairly certain that none of the bonuses stack.

Captain_Orso · Mon Sep 22, 2014 4:44 pm

I'm very certain that having multiple units with the same ability will not add-up their bonuses. However I don't think that Engineer, Siege Expert and Siege Artillery are the same abilities. I'll have to check into those.

Real-Siege-Artillery™ units and Mortarboats do share the same ability. So the +1 bonus to the Siege_Role is still only +1, but the Real-Siege-Artillery™ units will add their offensive firepower to the artillery comparison, where by the Mortarboats, even if they would add their offensive firepower--but I don't think they do, because they are in a different region--have an offensive firepower of "0" *WHAAA-Whaaa-whaaaaa* :wacko:

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