Artillery question

[1925frank]

I'll try.

The little artillery piece in the lower left corner indicates the unit is an artillery piece and nothing more.

To determine the range of an artillery piece, you can push F2 and then click on the range button. Or, when viewing the map, click on the artillery unit and hit the range button on the bottom of the screen over to the right, and the range of the unit will show up as a blue and red circle for soft and hard range respectively.

When you change the mode from movement to fire (the far left button at the bottom of the screen), and when you click on the unit, when you move the mouse over other hexes, you'll get either a reading of the firepower for hexes within the piece's range or, if you don't get a reading, there will be an instruction at the bottom of the screen that the cursor is over a hex outside the artillery piece's range, and it'll even tell you by how many hexes you are outside the artillery piece's range.

When you click on the unit and see the box, there will be a bullet. If the bullet is full white, you can fire. If it is empty, you are low on ammo and can't fire. Nonartillery pieces, when low on ammo, can still fire but at a reduced power. Artillery pieces cannot fire when low on ammo.

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