... it's obvious you get the bonus when you get attacked and your units do better than they would in the open.
, I used marines to conquer several coastal cities. I then moved transports with mech infantry (among other things) into the newly captured cities. Because I was able to unload my units directly from a transport into the city, I had preserved all of their movement points. I then fortified these units. The captured cities were all "Cities" (pop 7-12) and in one case a Metropolis (pop 13+). I figure that a mech infantry, fortified, in a city has a defense value of 32 (base 18 + 50% for city + 25% for fortified) ignoring the possibility that the cities were on hills / across rivers. Nonetheless, when the AI counter-attacked with mech infantry (12 attack) I was losing approximately one mech inf for every 1.5 or so attacking mech inf -- somewhat off what one would expect if the city/metro bonus were available. Granted, this was a very small sample size (+/- 30 - 40 individual battles), but it just got me to thinking about the defense values (especially since I really can't recall losing more than an occasional mech inf to an attacking mech inf in my own "native cities" and I expect to lose a bunch of tanks (attack 16) if attacking a healthy mech inf fortified in a city.) **
Tweet
Comment