Civilians

[jreebel]

How is it possible to move civilians out of an objective hex without firing or assaulting them? I should be able to shoo them away without bloodshed. Is there a way to forbid my units from using opportunity fire against them if they move or a non-civilian unit in the same hex fires or moves?

[Warhorse]

Shift-move?

[Jason Petho]

Civilians are a whole new challenge.

You can usually remove civilians from a hex by assault wit a low assault value unit. If you use a high assault value unit, you're more than likely cause casualities - which goes against your victory level, of course.

Learning when and how to set OP-Fire for individual units in urban areas will be vital. You can't just not op-fire against civilians.

Jason Petho

[Crossroads]

As they move about, calling an air strike or an artillery strike on urban environment can be quite a disaster as well. As I have found out many times.

[jreebel]

Well I moved one of my units with a 1 assault factor into the (village) hex and it eliminated all civilians. Can't get any lower than 1, right?

[Crossroads]

I guess we can only conclude Civilians are quite a nuisance, always getting into a way of a good fight. In other words, this is all by design, there is no sure way to ensure no collateral damage happens.

[headcount_slith]

I'm enjoying the added challenge of civilians. However, one incident in my last game did strike me as strange. In 'Long Road Home' I believe (it happened very quickly and I may have misread the situation) I lost a mortar unit and its transport when a group of civilians moved into their hex. Is this working as designed?

[Jason Petho]

Hmm, shouldn't have caused any casualties to your units, since they can't assault and don't have any attack values.

Would something else have been at play?

[headcount_slith]

I've tried to repeat the incident. No luck so far. The foot civilians in that scenario do appear to have the assault ability though (it's listed when you F2 them).