Controlling bombard attacks?

[GottaLove88s]

Gents, Where can I control the impact of a bombard attack? Does this just pick up the regular APAttack and HEAttack ranges?
I note that the APBombardAttack[0], APBombardAttack[1], HEBombardAttack[0], HEBombardAttack[1] are all zero in squads.csv (for bombard units, eg. mortars).
Does the bombard function apply the bombard_shots and bombardsalvoes values? Or are these just used to specify the animations?
Thanks!

[Amaris]

The best is to looking into the BA scripts. The bombardment is defined by IndirectFire.BSF, IndirectFireLogic.bsf (data\battle\script) and by BombardTools.BSF (data\script).

You can see the values used to calculate the damage into IndirectFireLogic.bsf:

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			// fetch min/max HE attack & divide by HE 4 because this is indirect bombardment damage
			minDam = GetAttribArray( me, "HEBombardAttack", 0 ) ;
			maxDam = GetAttribArray( me, "HEBombardAttack", 1 ) ;
			HE_Damage = Rand (minDam, maxDam) ;
			// if values not set use our normal weapon values
			if(maxDam == 0)
			{
				minDam = GetAttribArray( me, "HEAttack", 0 ) ;
				maxDam = GetAttribArray( me, "HEAttack", 1 ) ;
				HE_Damage = Rand (minDam, maxDam) / 4 ;			
			}
			
			minDam = GetAttribArray( me, "APBombardAttack", 0 ) ;
			maxDam = GetAttribArray( me, "APBombardAttack", 1 ) ;
			AP_Damage = Rand (minDam, maxDam) ;	
			// if values not set use our normal weapon values
			if(maxDam == 0)
			{
				minDam = GetAttribArray( me, "APAttack", 0 ) ;
				maxDam = GetAttribArray( me, "APAttack", 1 ) ;
				AP_Damage = Rand (minDam, maxDam) ;
			}
			
			unit = GetUnitOnTile ( impactX, impactY) ;
			type = GetAttrib(unit, "ArmourType") ;
			
			// dont let them hit themselves as it can cause odd issues. 
			if (unit != me )
			{
				if( ( unit == -1) || ( GetAttrib(unit, "ArmourType") == 0 ) )
				{
					BombardTile (impactX, impactY, HE_Damage, GetAttrib(me, "HE_Suppression"), GetAttrib(me, "HE_ExplosionType"), GetAttrib(me, "SFXImpact"), GetAttrib(me, "HE_TileDamage"), delay ) ;	
				}
				else
				{
					BonusAPAttack(impactX, impactY, AP_Damage, GetAttrib(me, "HE_Suppression"), GetAttrib(me, "HE_ExplosionType"), GetAttrib(me, "SFXImpact"), GetAttrib(me, "HE_TileDamage"), delay ) ;
				}
			}

[GottaLove88s]

Interesting, Thanks Alex!

Looks like the bombard damage defaults to HEAttack or APAttack if HEBombardAttack and APBombardAttack are zero (so we can modify by just adding in new HEBombardAttack and APBombardAttack values).

Intriguing that the code only softens the impact of a bombard (vs direct fire) for an HEAttack (ie. no /4 reduction for the equivalent HEBombardAttack, APAttack or APBombardAttack, all of which bombard at their full attack value).

That means bombarding is uberstrong versus armour (or if HEBombard values are set)... I wonder if that's intentional?

[Amaris]

Look into the BombardTools.BSF (data\script).
It is more subtle :

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if ( (GetUnitDead(unit) == 0) && (IsValidTile(x,y)==1))
	{
		// hit random facing & get armour & damage
		facing = Rand (0,3) ;
		armour = GetAttribArray (unit, "Armour", facing) ;
		damage = Rand (-50, damage) ;
		
		//Log ("facing, armour, damage", facing, armour, damage) ;		
		
		// unit destroyed
		if (damage >= armour)
		{
			if ( GetAttrib(unit, "IsVehicle") == 1 )
			{
				// use either 0 or 1 as the death explosion
				explosion = Rand (0,1) ;
				AddVizUnitSpotAnim(unit, 255, "bang", explosion, 0) ;					
			}		
			
			AddVizFunctionCall("DestroyUnit",unit, 255) ;			
			AddVizAnimNoWait(unit,"DIE", 255) ;
			ReportKill (unit) ;
			//AddVizUnitText(unit, "IDS_UNIT_DESTROYED", "ffffff") ;	
			killed = 1 ;
		}
		else
		{
			if(damage < 25)
			{
			//AddVizUnitText(unit, "IDS_UNIT_MISSED", "ffffff") ;
			}
			else
			{
				AddVizUnitText(unit, "IDS_UNIT_BOUNCED", "ffffff") ;
			}
						
			// less suppression for armoured units
			suppression	/= 4 ;
			MoraleUpdate (unit, -1, suppression) ;
		}