SimonLandmine
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1 year ago As Turrets are implemented as a strange kind of immobile vehicle, would it be possible to make them targetable, like a vehicle or infantry unit parked on or in a building? This would enable a turret "on top" to be targeted like any other unit on top of a building, rather than having this strange invulnerability. As they don't track damage to themselves, it would have to be applied to the building on which they are mounted, as at present.
(An alternative suggestion from one of the Discord users is to simply make it impossible to deploy turrets on the roof of buildings - I'm not sure how that tallies with the tabletop rules for turrets, although many of the computer games appear to depict turrets on rooftops.)
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14:38:33,484 INFO [mekhq.MekHQ] {AWT-EventQueue-0} mekhq.MekHQ.showInfo(MekHQ.java:276) - Starting MekHQ v0.49.6 Compiled on Fri Dec 31 15:31:02 CST 2021 Today is 2022-01-08 Java Vendor: AdoptOpenJDK Java Version: 11.0.10 Platform: Windows 10 10.0 (amd64) Total memory available to MegaMek: 2,147,483,648 GB
Description
So I have seen this for a while but it didnt become an issue until the turret was a double PPC turret.
Basic diagram below.
A B C
So A B and C are all on same level. A is Mech. B is Height 2 building. C is Turret on Height 2 building.
Mech A cannot shoot turret C. But turret C can shoot mech A, because, at least as its described to me, Turret is "Floating" one level above building. When dealing with a PPC turret or the like, this is very detrimental to the health of the mech at A.
It was described thusly to me in Discord, so I thought I would just copy and paste.
That's a known issue, I believe. Although worth checking to see if there's a current bug logged on the Git. You need to have LOS to the building, which is what you're targeting, rather than the turret itself. Meanwhile, the turret is occupying the empty level above the building to draw LOS to you, as far as I can tell in your situation. (Yep, I've had that one too.)
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I apologize I did not get a save mid battle, but you can see it in this screen. Turrets on height 1 wall. They can target the Crusader, but for the Crusader LOS is blocked.