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Offline iron650

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Artillery
« on: May 27, 2011, 04:31:36 PM »
How about the field artillery? Having the half-tracks tug around artillery cannons as they sometimes did. I believe the Allies used the 105mm Howitzer and I think the Axis did, too. And they still carried a MG with them.

<Edit> How about the carrying a 88mm gun, too? Sacrifice firepower for mobility and set up time. Also, how about it's like getting vehicle supplies. You stop takes 10-60sec to set the cannon up and then it's like a 5" ship gun. <Edit>
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Re: Artillery
« Reply #1 on: May 27, 2011, 05:10:46 PM »
+1 anything to have more stuff to hunt with my 40mms
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Re: Artillery
« Reply #2 on: May 27, 2011, 11:40:18 PM »
well to make htc's life easy...the hummel and priest would be better or the us 8in moblie arty  and the moser karl "loki", "odin" and "thor" ...but i will say how often do people jump in the 8in on the Ca so how many people want deaths on their gv record for the same results as the CA or u can look at it as people can finally get perks for shelling a town
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Re: Artillery
« Reply #3 on: May 28, 2011, 08:20:50 AM »
The hummel or priest would be fine. Also, it would be useful to attack a landlocked area. Artillery can bombard the airfield or town.

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Re: Artillery
« Reply #4 on: May 28, 2011, 11:16:27 AM »
+1
This has been asked for a lot. Still a good idea.
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Re: Artillery
« Reply #5 on: May 28, 2011, 11:21:35 AM »
How do you aim artillery?

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Re: Artillery
« Reply #6 on: May 28, 2011, 11:22:18 AM »
How do you aim artillery?

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Re: Artillery
« Reply #7 on: May 28, 2011, 12:15:13 PM »
How do you aim cruiser guns?


Wait for me!  :bolt:

Land mode.

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Re: Artillery
« Reply #8 on: May 28, 2011, 02:24:16 PM »
How do you aim artillery?

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Like a 5" not a 8". The 8" has a flat path, but artillery is like the 5" that archs.

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Re: Artillery
« Reply #9 on: May 28, 2011, 08:20:38 PM »
Sorry if this is against forum rules (double-posting) I scoured the rules reading it several time for a rule against it.

The artillery would give purpose to high ground.

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Re: Artillery
« Reply #10 on: May 29, 2011, 08:25:10 AM »
Like a 5" not a 8". The 8" has a flat path, but artillery is like the 5" that archs.
since when does any projectile in this game stay in a linear path? ive used 8" guns to barrage bases beyond mountains. once we had a 2 CA CVgroup bombard a base with all 6 8" mounts past a mountain range at approx 20 miles. I say to get artie you get an artillery grid to use on the clipboard map. then you need spotters in jeeps or A/C also to use indirect fire. <S>
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Re: Artillery
« Reply #11 on: May 29, 2011, 08:43:32 AM »
Like a 5" not a 8". The 8" has a flat path, but artillery is like the 5" that archs.
:huh  what? iron come on dude...you're not that goofy...are you?  :headscratch:  wherever it is that you get your information, stop...it's making you appear dumb.
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Re: Artillery
« Reply #12 on: May 29, 2011, 11:01:22 AM »
Well, in a book I've read they talked about the naval batteries on a cruiser and battleship. They mentioned how it travel with a flat or more straight path. Also, artillery is aimed on an angle so that it can possibly go over hills. (In the same book.)

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Re: Artillery
« Reply #13 on: May 29, 2011, 11:55:25 AM »
Well, in a book I've read they talked about the naval batteries on a cruiser and battleship. They mentioned how it travel with a flat or more straight path. Also, artillery is aimed on an angle so that it can possibly go over hills. (In the same book.)
iron. high trajectories and a matching low trajectory both have one single landing point. shoot at say 30 degrees and you can also shoot at say (what's its counterpart? 60 degrees i believe?) and you will have the same point of impact but one will be more vertical and one more diagonal. this is why heavy guns can shoot a target directly or indirectly. the only difference is that an 8" or 16" shell has much more distance to it and that point of impact is easier and more effective to hit by firing direct LOS instead of indirectly.

Modern artillery can fire two volleys and create one massive explosion on a target now by firing high angle and then a second rapid volley at its lower counterpart. Imagine a double barrel shotgun. you shoot both barrels off at once, the target's gonna get hurt...

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