US Mobile Artillery idea (M20 Command Car)
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Instead, what if after researching Captain or Major, the M20 would get an upgrade to replace it's mines with a radio, which would allow it to call in artillery strikes. Functionally, it'd act just like any other mobile artillery unit. It's also in-tune with the real-life US doctrine of rapid and accurate artillery fire.
If I've explained it badly, think of it as a Panzerwerfer but with shells (cosmetic different only) that come from off-map instead of the unit.
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Another problem- no distinctive rocket noise, so it would be hard to properly 'telegraph' the attack.
It's an interesting idea, but I don't think it would really work. I'd rather just have a nondoctrinal 105mm howitzer that could be built be REs after T4 was teched.
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Upgrades usually don't cost fuel, and 20 fuel for an artillery unit- even with a munitions cost tacked on- would be pretty extreme.
Another problem- no distinctive rocket noise, so it would be hard to properly 'telegraph' the attack.
It's an interesting idea, but I don't think it would really work. I'd rather just have a nondoctrinal 105mm howitzer that could be built be REs after T4 was teched.
Couldn't it drop smoke like other off maps? If it operated similar to the recon pathfinders this could be interesting, perhaps with a slightly longer delay as that offmap is pretty brutal.
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Made sense in the coh1 tech strutcture, don't think it makes sense here.
You can always fake it by crewing an M8 with I&R pathfinders and dismounting to get a better radio signal
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Yes, its slowest and absolutely worst and overpriced strike in game, but that is a balance concern(tbh no reason why major arty sucks considering USF are meant to be the arty faction yet for some reason have worst indirect fire options out of all armies) and he can still do it.
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But yeah major artillery sucks right now.
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M8 Scott is mobile artillery, no? Otherwise nice suggestions.
Its as much mobile arty as mortar HT is.
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Its as much mobile arty as mortar HT is.
You might be surprised at how well the M8 penetrates vehicle armor sometimes...
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I do want a calliope doctrine tho.
And Rangers.
And Pershing.
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You might be surprised at how well the M8 penetrates vehicle armor sometimes...
It's undoubtedly very good at direct fire- probably too good, capable of oneshotting squads with alarming regularity while also dealing reliable damage every shot, something even the bulldozer or sherman sometimes fail to match- but in the actual role of 'artillery' it's pretty damn bad... i'd say far worse than the pack howitzer's autofire.
It would be nice if Relic could adjust it towards what is probably it's intended role as a light artillery vehicle with direct fire capability (i.e. bombardment speed/damage/splash up, direct fire shot slowed down and given reduced splash) rather than leave the US faction without any good vehicle based artillery lategame, and giving it a spammable one-shot-one-squad turreted stug E with smoke to compensate.
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