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#1 Muammar alGaddafi

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Posted 06 March 2008 - 02:02 AM

They are brought and exist the same way tanks are, except you can only have them up 5% of your solider count. They cannot be deployed abroad to battle, and do nothing in defensive battles either, except that in defensive battles they can be destroyed like normal tanks (although less proportionately because of their numbers). They can also be destroyed along with infra and tanks in cruise missile and bomber strikes. Every turn artillery can 'bombard' the enemy once like cruise missiles. The damage they cause is proportionate the amount of artillery you have, although the result is random like a cruise missile, but is increased with more artillery pieces. The maximum amount of an enemy that can be destroyed is 50 tanks, 50 infrastructure, 5 technology, but obviously only higher nations will achieve this because they can get more soldiers.

Anyway, just a thought.

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#2 +Zeke+

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Posted 06 March 2008 - 02:15 AM

Too weak on the defensive end, imo. Artillery, while vulnerable to air and missile strikes, still are quite handy in defense.

Any combat soldier that has ever seen a couple batteries fire off FPF (Final Protective Fire) can attest to the ability of the tubes to break the spirit of an assault against you. 8 to 10 tubes can put an amazing wall of deadly iron between you and the enemy.

For that matter, in the very rare cases of the artillery actual being overrun they all carry a couple anti-personnel rounds that can put out a deadly horizontal cone of amazing proportions. Those rounds could shred a couple platoons.

In my time as a serviceman, I called a few arty fire support missions. In just about every case I was already on the defensive and needed the extra firepower to regain the initiative. Arty is definitely useful in the defensive role for ground troops.