Can someone explain me something I may be missing, but I really dont understand why we cannot bombard earth vs sea units and vice-versa? I mean, in Cic : CTP, we were able to bombard coastal city and units with our fleet and retaliate back with our cannons... Now, we just cant bombard units that are not on the same elements (sea vs earth). This is non sense...as long as we are within range, we should be able to bombard. Is that a bug or something? It said (on the charts) in the abilities of the "Ship of the line" : Bombards. For me it means that we can bombard coastal too (just look at our history...there was coastal bombardment : Siege of Quebec(1759), during the american revolution (just look at the french fleet during the film "The Patriots"), during the debarkment of Normandy...).

My second point is also about fleet... I decided, since we cannot bombard coastal cities, to make a direct assault with my fleet on a city. I am playing at "Hard" level... I had 7 "Ship of the line" aligned and decided to attack a city defended by 2 catapult, 3 archers and 3 pikemens... well I got cut to ribbon! A true disaster! I lost my 7 "Ship of the line" to nothing! (they did not lose any unit nor did got any damage??????). Excuse me but "Ship of the line" could just be destroyed by cannons! That's really a non-sense! Com'on!

My friends and I are oriented in naval combat, but with this situation it really remove the importance to even built a fleet or coastal defense!

There must be a way to modify the source code to permit shore bombardment... I will have to look on this...

Finally, just a remark...no "Legion" at all? How the hell did the most influential unit ever not in this game? It prevail on the battlefield more longer than any know melee army (400 years is not enough long to be taken in consideration?). They should be add in a future patch (think of it as the antiquities only good attack unit).

Do not think I hate the game....my friends and I just love it! We are missing our college cause of this infernal good game...just too good!

Does anyone agree with me that bombardment and "Legion" absence should be fix?

P.S. Sorry for my bad english, I am french speaking and doing my best.

Secundly, even the "Ironclad" unit cannot bombards coastal cities/units? Excuse me but the were first introduce during the american's secession war and they were use often to blokus the southern states. They were conducting a lot a shore bombardment too.

So what's the point of being unable to perform shore bombardment with these 2 units?

Just my point, but I hope other people will react about that and ask Activision to modify this fact...it is very "uncool" when intending to use those units in a naval-oriented game.

About the bombardment: the first land unit that can bombard sea units is “Artilery” and the first naval unit able to bombard land units is “Battleship”.

So you are right, maybe shore bombardment should not affect the army inside a town, but it can destroy the town's infracstructures.

So instead of denying the capabilities of a fleet to destroy an army, we should permit it, but reduce it's strengh... (cause I persist to say fleet bombardment at this time was very important in the disposal of sea fortress). A good exemple of this is the french's fleet intervention against Alger and its pirate's forces...the Arabic citadel was destroyed by heavy bombardment instigated by the french's fleet... the continental army finished them up after that (if I remember well).

A possible solution to this is the one WesW instituted in one of his Med Mods. He gave all units with bombard capabilities the counter bombard capabilities. Thus when say a SOTL bombards a town with cannons in it, assuming you have given cannons the bombard naval ability, the cannons get a crack at the SOTL also. Thus the over balance is addressed, but ships with historical land bombard capabilities can still have them. Better still, all you have to do is make the change in the Units.txt file and the AIs will use the ability. No messing with AI files.