Artillery friendly fire

[Cerebus]

Is there any?

 

I've noticed that enemy cannon fire was doing horrendous damage to my unit but none to the enemy unit that they were engaged with. Surely with units in close combat artillery fire will hit both? Or did I miss something?

[Nick Thomadis]

Yes there is friendly fire. Usually units hold their fire automatically if there is too much friendly fire block. But they can still fire and cause some friendly casualties in the heat of the battle. To cause only to friendlies damage it sounds like something very rare or other cause. Maybe they received fire from a distant enemy.

[Cerebus]

Even though, any two units engaged in melee should receive a fairly equal proportion of damage from any incoming fire wouldn't you think? My unit dropped like a stone and the enemy didn't lose a man! I'll run some experiments in a future game and let you know the outcome.

[Subutai]

Yes I have noticed this as well. Especially in situations where artillery fires canister into a melee mothball, it seems the damage is particularly biased towards the enemy.

[Riekopo]

It's not clear to me when friendly fire is taking place. The game should tell us when a unit is under friendly fire.

[RichardMcCor]

In some cases we also see split fire among multiple units which is very good. Its not clear when this happens but i see situations where one brigade fires at another and the ARTY units next to it also get hit.