How to use this thing? It a literal moving barn house. CAS can see you from thousand of kilometer away. You have no armor. You have the classic soviet reverse speed. It has a very great gun and reload for it BR. It very huge and it very hard to hide it and you gotta use it as a snipe vehicle because you can’t use it like an artilitery. My match is always those huge big map and barely any hiding spot for a moving Barn. I want city maps.
Sniper.
Big bonk from far away.
for better results uptier it to about 8.7 to face more light armour
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Ye it would have been funner with atleast an LRF… Uptier will get me killed by those annoying CAS.
after a while you can just estimate ranges by eye quite consistently
and you have a machine gun to take potshots at aircraft, its a russian MG so it does a lot of damage if you hit
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That very easy for those vehicle that dosen’t move at all but it very hard for those that move in different patern and at high speed. And now those annoying AA will now shoot at the trees no matter if there anyone there or not… Those annoying A2D or Wyvern or any long-range bomber that carpet bomb or drop huge bomb will always kill me. And worse is Teamkill… It bloody hell mate, I would request more tips with more detail to play SPG as I am not very familiar with it. I got absolutely no armour.
they are too far, mate, and I think I am getting Gaijined with everything as an “hit” with multiple hit on those A2D. Helicopter are quiet annoying as well… that why I perfer city maps. I can flank and hide from Air threat easier.
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2S19M1 as well 2S19M2 are very situational vehicles, due to the greatly slow turret control mechanism and slow vertical guidance you’re mostly restricted to open maps where you can waste ammo to simply range. There’s no right way to play a howitzer or a artillery vehicle in general, if you hit the right spot and being the first to shoot, the advantage is mostly on your side unless the other party has shooten you as well.
Msta-S shares some similarity with a T-72 mobility, so the maneuverability is somewhat decent for such big vehicle, you can engage at any ranges but the armor and huge silhouette won’t help in most of these scenarios, I recommend you leaving this vehicle as last resource for a better line-up with vehicles like IS-4M and T-44-100.
I see people using drones and artillery to stay in spawn, but I think you’re going to need two players. And How do the artilitery know what the range of the target using the drones?
Also shouldn’t the 2S19M2 Be allowed to manually load when autoloader is completely broken with it 2 Extra loader onboard.