Using new Demolition Engineers

[visplaneoverflow]

I've got an unusual one. I'm trying to setup a scenario where a player is supposed to use the new Demolition Engineer infantry to set off a trap for an ambush.

The concept is to use the engineers to place charges on a set of fuel tanks, then blow the tanks when the enemy closes in. The problem is that it seems fuel tanks are not a valid target for laying explosives!

It seems counterintuitive that you can't place explosives on a structure that's meant to explode. Infantry engineers can only wire up actual buildings, apparently - and fuel tanks aren't considered a building. Is this behavior intended? Is there some way to circumvent this limitation with clever usage of the map editor?

Thanks :)

[Simon Landmine]

Is it possible to put a fuel tank and building in the same hex? Effectively a fuel tank in a building?
(I'm trying to remember whether I did that in the past, without actually firing up the map editor ... which I'll probably do after lunch, at this rate!)

[visplaneoverflow]

I tried to do just that, create a fuel tank inside a building, and while it seems to work - you can still only target the building for laying explosives, and when you detonate the charges it just harmlessly crumbles the structure (including the fuel tank) without any of the massive destruction or collateral damage that we really want.

[Hammer]

I tried to do just that, create a fuel tank inside a building, and while it seems to work - you can still only target the building for laying explosives, and when you detonate the charges it just harmlessly crumbles the structure (including the fuel tank) without any of the massive destruction or collateral damage that we really want.

Best to open a bug report on the tracker, links in my sig.

[visplaneoverflow]

Okay, I created a bug report and attached a savegame that will ideally show off the behaviour I'm describing.