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Say you create a droid with a sensor turret does it automatically target the enemy with your artillery emplacements or do you need to click on the enemy? Same question with artillery units.

Yes, but it works much, much better if you actually tell it to target something.

I often build arty within range of enemy base, or have units with arty turrets in such location, and then send sensor droids in targeted to various structures or enemy units, often taking out enemy sensors first.

If you've got lots of long range weapons, particularly arty/ripples/archs, getting a sensor to lock on to a group of enemy droids can be quite devastating -- once the target droid is destroyed, your long range weapons will usually fire a few more salvos at droids nearby.

If you assign weapon droids to a sensor, they'll still fire at stuff randomly, but will focus their fire on whatever the sensor locks on to, which can be really useful when you want some dedicated units for taking out enemy sensors, etc.

Aubergine, thanks for the info, I appreciate it.

In 3.1 RC artillery emplacements will target anything inside your known total sensor coverage whether you designate it as a target or not, and regardless of who or what did the spotting. Which is a bug. Normally, only commander units can authorize fire-support from artillery pits, sensor units cannot.

IMHO sensor droids are just mobile sensors so why can't they instruct arty to fire at their targets?

I think vtol strike sensors are useless. I cannot figure out how they work.

Whilst still on the subject of sensors, and somewhat in correlation with a recent fix in v4.2.0 -
Could someone explain the difference of assigning indirect fire droids (mortars, howitzers, rocket/missile artillery) directly to a commander, which doesn't increase commander's control group count, versus assigning indirect fire droids to a sensor droid then assigning said sensor droid to commander?

Thanks.