The Competition & Teaser Thread

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David, I'm not entirely sure if it was asked before, but: how often can artillery fire per turn? Only once to make artillery similar to PzC or still 3 times, which would make them 4 times as effective (3 times in 2 hours or 3 times in 30 minutes=12 times in 2 hours is a big difference)? Even if the 37 gun limit is a hard cap similar to the air strike limit in the sense that, say, a 12 gun (just to name a convenient example, I know artillery units will be much smaller) unit could 3 times at a hex but no more fire could be directed at the hex afterwards, it would still allow other artillery units to fire at other targets in the same time that they would spend firing on a single target in PzC.

With the "new" Katyusha's and reasonably strong Nebelwerfers, a 37 gun barrage sounds rather lethal for these smaller units (compared to PzC).

Hi ComradeP,

They fire once unless they're mortars which fire twice. Essentially artillery (not mortars) use the Alternate Indirect Fire rule from Panzer Campaigns.

To slow down ROF for all guns, all artillery types have to limber to move. Nebelwerfers & Katyushas have to setup as well. This is appropriate considering the loading time required for these weapons (about one hour for a Katyusha).

In most cases guns are grouped into batteries and in some cases battalions.

Finally, we have deliberately removed the indirect fire capacity of infantry guns to have them used in a more appropriate manner (ie. directly supporting infantry) as well as removing a lot of entries from the artillery dialog.

David