Rate of Fire

[manofthehour]

What is rate of fire?

[Venger]

A poorly named combat component that determines the maximum amount of damage a bombardment unit may do in a single attack. If you have a rate of fire of four, your unit may cause 1,2,3, or 4 points of damage in a successful bombard hit.

Venger

[Daveraver]

I had this same question...

at first, I'd be really excited when I'd get an upgraded unit with a higher rate of fire... sorta thinking "ooh, excellent... this must make em do like triple or sumpthin."

And then said unit rushes out and gets slaughtered by a single rate of fire pikeman. Now, unless spearmen and their contemporaries have developed some sort of ballistic spear launching device... sorry, off track...

So does anyone know what this means?

[FALVES]

If youre talking catapults or any other bombardment unit, you should know that they are defenseless and therfore, they are captured if attacked by an enemy unit.

[N. Machiavelli]

Originally posted by Venger
A poorly named combat component that determines the maximum amount of damage a bombardment unit may do in a single attack. If you have a rate of fire of four, your unit may cause 1,2,3, or 4 points of damage in a successful bombard hit.

Venger

Don't forget the almighty '0'. You can have an artillery piece successfully hit a target, but not deal any damage. i.e. a unit with a ROF of 4 can deal between 0 and 4 points of damage. Why is this? I have no idea. Perhaps a 2nd check to make sure artillery isn't too powerful, another example of the watered-down Civ3 combat system.