LVT in strats

[RotBaron]

Third time now I've been able to get an LVT in the strats, and been whacked by field guns twice rather quickly.

1st time, didn't make it very far into the concentration of buildings and got whacked from field guns shooting right through (seemingly) buildings. Frustrating, I never got a shot off. In this case the strat I was around was hit fairly hard, 50% +/- only a little. It was not the gun towers, they were destroyed.

2nd time, I made it deep into the ammo factory, took out numerous stacks and some bldgs, come around a corner, and again seems like a field gun was shooting through the buildings.

3rd time not worth mentioning, pinned down by jugs/hurri, but I was again deep into, but this strat was around 20% (alive.)

help

[Hap]

If you wish to damage factories from a fleet, use the 8" gun.  It has a range of 18 miles = 32K.  Press shift-q for land mode.  Zoom your factory all the way in on your map.  Click on the map and fire.

[pembquist]

I assume you already know but for anybody who doesn't: you can shell to your hearts content without making bases or cvs or strats or hq blink and only if the nme flies by or looks out the tower will they know the fleets there.  If you up an lvt or pt or plane it gives the game away. 

That auto ack seems to be able to shoot through everything but berms its very frustrating, I don't know if it makes a difference but when I creep along it doesn't seem to detect me as early around bases. 

[RotBaron]

I had this opportunity again and same result, whacked again before inflicting much damage.

What happens is that in some maps the actual strats can be obscured by mtns, and hills etc. It's in these cases after say the carrier has been bombed or somebody has blown the raid and see sets of bombers in the air that I up an LVT to try to get in there a cause some more damage.

Its a long drive usually and the reward has been absent. Just wishing guns couldn't hit me through solid structure like city/strat bldgs. If I can't hit it or even see it, how can it hit me?