Artillery only

Artillery by itself, would be very vulnerable to tac bombers. Also to rocket artillery.

ItzK3ky wrote:

Is there any difference in the damage artillery does while shooting from a distance and engaging in direct combat? Because if no then why not just spam artillery (or mot. artillery, or rocket)? Since its pretty strong

ItzK3ky wrote:

Is there any difference in the damage artillery does while shooting from a distance and engaging in direct combat? Because if no then why not just spam artillery (or mot. artillery, or rocket)? Since its pretty strong

Firstly, artillery is quite weak anti-air. This also applies to SP anti-air

Secondly, artillery is best used before a main assault to soften up the opposition before an infantry or motorised assault. They are quite rubbish for defence, particularly if an infantry unit sneaks up on them (as my latest game has shown, where my lvl.1 armoured car-motorised infantry stack of 50 HP defeated five enemy guns also of 50 HP — both Allied doctrine). Since their main advantage is their ability to engage from far away, they must have picket units ahead of them (preferably anti-tank or infantry, mechanised infantry if they are SP arty) to engage attackers, and also preferably anti-air or SP anti-air stacked to defend from aeroplanes.

Thirdly, artillery (even including rocket artillery & railway guns) don't use equal amounts of each resource. Sooner or later you're going to have massive surpluses of at least one resource. This is clearly wasteful and most of it could be used to make other units, including aircraft.

Umm you take no dmg when bombarding.

Lord Crayfish wrote:

ItzK3ky wrote:

Is there any difference in the damage artillery does while shooting from a distance and engaging in direct combat? Because if no then why not just spam artillery (or mot. artillery, or rocket)? Since its pretty strong

An awful tactic, if I may say so. Despite this Reddit thread (https://www.reddit.com/r/CallOfWar/comments/v615uh/ive_never_seen_this_before_lol_he_is_producing/) this is not going to work.Firstly, artillery is quite weak anti-air. This also applies to SP anti-air

Secondly, artillery is best used before a main assault to soften up the opposition before an infantry or motorised assault. They are quite rubbish for defence, particularly if an infantry unit sneaks up on them (as my latest game has shown, where my lvl.1 armoured car-motorised infantry stack of 50 HP defeated five enemy guns also of 50 HP — both Allied doctrine). Since their main advantage is their ability to engage from far away, they must have picket units ahead of them (preferably anti-tank or infantry, mechanised infantry if they are SP arty) to engage attackers, and also preferably anti-air or SP anti-air stacked to defend from aeroplanes.

Thirdly, artillery (even including rocket artillery & railway guns) don't use equal amounts of each resource. Sooner or later you're going to have massive surpluses of at least one resource. This is clearly wasteful and most of it could be used to make other units, including aircraft.

My god its like they avoid putting the ART in the hills.

Heinrici wrote:

Lord Crayfish wrote:

ItzK3ky wrote:

Is there any difference in the damage artillery does while shooting from a distance and engaging in direct combat? Because if no then why not just spam artillery (or mot. artillery, or rocket)? Since its pretty strong

An awful tactic, if I may say so. Despite this Reddit thread (https://www.reddit.com/r/CallOfWar/comments/v615uh/ive_never_seen_this_before_lol_he_is_producing/) this is not going to work.Firstly, artillery is quite weak anti-air. This also applies to SP anti-airSecondly, artillery is best used before a main assault to soften up the opposition before an infantry or motorised assault. They are quite rubbish for defence, particularly if an infantry unit sneaks up on them (as my latest game has shown, where my lvl.1 armoured car-motorised infantry stack of 50 HP defeated five enemy guns also of 50 HP — both Allied doctrine). Since their main advantage is their ability to engage from far away, they must have picket units ahead of them (preferably anti-tank or infantry, mechanised infantry if they are SP arty) to engage attackers, and also preferably anti-air or SP anti-air stacked to defend from aeroplanes.

Thirdly, artillery (even including rocket artillery & railway guns) don't use equal amounts of each resource. Sooner or later you're going to have massive surpluses of at least one resource. This is clearly wasteful and most of it could be used to make other units, including aircraft.

This is very redit.

My god its like they avoid putting the ART in the hills.

That said, this is an AI player.

Nope the AI will not do that