Question re fortification bonus

[johntindall]

G'day folks.

Probably a dumb newbie question but anyway...

For cover purposes buildings have a cover rating of 63%, then light fortifications are also 63% plus a 2x fortification bonus.

What does the "2x fortification bonus" actually do? Improve resilience to enemy fire?

[semyorka]

Been asking this myself.. anyone knows?

[GottaLove88s]

G'day folks.

Probably a dumb newbie question but anyway...

For cover purposes buildings have a cover rating of 63%, then light fortifications are also 63% plus a 2x fortification bonus.

What does the "2x fortification bonus" actually do? Improve resilience to enemy fire?

G'day mate!
That's one for Pip & Iain... it's a good question!
Heavy fortifications are 80% cover plus 4x fortification bonus...

[nsquidc]

Just bumping this thread up again. Great question -- haven't figured it out yet either.

In the Christmas Surprise scenario, for example, units taking equivalent fire seem to last longer in a forest compared to a fortification.

[pipfromslitherine]

Light and Heavy forts reduce bombard damage by 50 and 75 % respectively. Heavy forts reduce suppression by 50% and units in them will never surrender. That's on top of their cover bonus values.

Cheers

Pip

[GottaLove88s]

Light and Heavy forts reduce bombard damage by 50 and 75 % respectively.

Does that reduce bombard damage from mortars? Or from arty, naval arty and airstrikes too?

Heavy forts reduce suppression by 50% and units in them will never surrender. That's on top of their cover bonus values.

By "reduce suppression 50%" do you mean they suppress at 25 instead of 50? Or something else...?

Thanks Pip!

[pipfromslitherine]

Anything that uses bombardment as its attack - so yes for most of the off-map weapons.

For suppression, I was unclear - it reduces the morale reduction by 50%. So takes twice as long to get suppressed.