Well artillery usually comes from well behind the lines (5-10 km).
And it’s usually in the 6-inch + caiibre. Think Long-Tom.
Gaijin shall just dump it at the Heli Airfield or something then player can destory it therefore no artilitery for the enemy team.
Germany brought their Gustav kannon
This reminded me of this beauty:
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That is a very high attitude, where the artillery came from.
That gonna be fun.
Wow, you don’t see that everyday in WT battles.
Howitzers are indirect fire - they lob the shells up high over obstacles and the they hit on the downward tragectory.
Just like a mortar… ka-chunk!
Have you never seen Platoon or Kelly’s Heroes or any of the war films that have artillery?
Yes, i know. I was only answering his question…shells magically appear in the sky rather than coming from land in game. Not saying anything else about downward trajectory or mortar.
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It used to be we had actual artillery emplacements, but they were unfortunately removed :/.
I dont think the artillery should be targetable and im sure the game would just explode if they tried to have actual guns fire the barage, but distant echoes of it firing would be really cool and I would love an alternative to artillery in the form of an MLRS strike with the smoke trails streaking accross the sky.
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NGL, would love Gaijin to upgrade the artillery mechanics by adding an upgrade on using MLRS as artillery call.
yeah, would be cool. Have a choice of some different artillery types like:
- Regular (what we have now)
- Smoke (self explanatory, create a large smoke cloud in a given area, but quite a long CD)
- MLRS (Much wider spread, steeper angle (so worse for city maps) but more HE)
Im sure there are other options too
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They got that in WTM
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Not even the ERA can defend the amount of Explosive in that thing.
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U will need EERA
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Used to be batteries of artillery on the field WAY out from the battlefield, that if you destroyed them you’d make the enemy unable to call artillery.
That was a good time for CAS. ;)
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That would be cool if they brought back in some way, perhaps not so that the arty ability gets taken away completely, but diminished in some way instead.
It would also give all the Self propelled artillery vehicles we now have in-game a possibility to act like counter battery.
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Absolutely, a place for SPAA to spawn, and multiple batteries could be present.
When it was in, there were no markers so you were literally relying on that edge triangle setup to actually find them, even looking for the firing of them as you got closer.