Attacking units in transports

I noticed there are 2 different scenarios when attacking units carried in air transport (on land and not in cities):

1) I kill the air transport and everything inside die!
2) The units inside can actually fight and the air transport gets killed last!

what is the mechanism behind this?

Kirjutas Mesopotamia, 27.04.2020 at 12:17

I noticed there are 2 different scenarios when attacking units carried in air transport (on land and not in cities):

1) I kill the air transport and everything inside die!
2) The units inside can actually fight and the air transport gets killed last!

what is the mechanism behind this?

As far as I am concern, if you move your units to AT and meanwhile, your AT is getting tbed, all your units will act like the part of AT and killing only AT will be enough to kill all units. But if you just move units to AT and somewhat don't move it, all units will act like land units and their defence will add up.
Here is the small video showing this. Enough movements have been done to make it clear AT will be tbed.

Cool .. I thought it had something to do with TB and AT ... thanks for the video .. much appreciated

Wow that's interesting, thanks for sharing

Kirjutas Mesopotamia, 27.04.2020 at 12:17

I noticed there are 2 different scenarios when attacking units carried in air transport (on land and not in cities):

1) I kill the air transport and everything inside die!
2) The units inside can actually fight and the air transport gets killed last!

what is the mechanism behind this?

I believe that is actually a bug, Air Transports over land should include all units. Air Transports over the water... only count the air transport themselves. It was mentioned in a forum post somewhere.

Yeah, that was what I initially thought too but the code is probably too complicated and not worth an attempt to fix it

Kirjutas Same, 28.04.2020 at 08:35

Kirjutas Mesopotamia, 27.04.2020 at 12:17

I noticed there are 2 different scenarios when attacking units carried in air transport (on land and not in cities):

1) I kill the air transport and everything inside die!
2) The units inside can actually fight and the air transport gets killed last!

what is the mechanism behind this?

As far as I am concern, if you move your units to AT and meanwhile, your AT is getting tbed, all your units will act like the part of AT and killing only AT will be enough to kill all units. But if you just move units to AT and somewhat don't move it, all units will act like land units and their defence will add up.
Here is the small video showing this. Enough movements have been done to make it clear AT will be tbed.

If u move the AT and leave few units behind they will def the AT, u can still get tbed but ur AT won't die except if the units u left behind die.