Heavy howitzers are in very poor state.
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my solution is
1. increse firing rate, reduce penetration. (howitzers were not for destroying tanks.)
2. reduce damage, increse AOE to reduce RNG.
3. reduce shells, reduce ability cooldown.
what's your thought?
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(howitzers were not for destroying tanks.)
B4?
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Make B4 3-shells / 240dmg each howie, instead of one big nasty rng bomb.
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1. Give supression to howitzers, like LeIG's had. That would be both reasonable and effective, that falling shells supressing infantry, that stand close enough to blast area.
2. Let direct hit's to enemie's vechiles cause small damage effects, like stunning or turret block, or, maybe with small chanses even engine damage.
Majority, that wrote in that old thread agreed with those buffs actually, because they making artillery more effective as long-range random-effective support guns.
Guess, it would be real best way to make Howitzers more effective in thier support role.
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Side note: Artillery and especially howies were extremely effective against tanks. Tanks often only have 10-20 mm of armor on top and a shell dropping on an engine deck will light them up. The American army relied heavily on this to stop German tanks, and the Soviets just placed arty guns directly into tanks to build TDs.
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Howitzers are bad because they can be countered by off maps too easily.
Personally, I think that could be fine since we definitely don't want them to be too hard to take out and turn the game into an artyoff, but there should be changes to them in compensation of that.
E.g. Cost reduced, vet removed (because they're balanced around expecting to get rekt by off-maps), builds faster, gun is harder to destroy so off-maps won't totally remove the investment in a howitzer as easily.
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After that, make it so the howitzer themselves cannot be one-hit by off-maps so they can be recrewed and repaired if it's just a yolo scout looking to drop artillery.
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We had thread about it sometime ago. There we suggested to buff howitzers in other way:
1. Give supression to howitzers, like LeIG's had. That would be both reasonable and effective, that falling shells supressing infantry, that stand close enough to blast area.
2. Let direct hit's to enemie's vechiles cause small damage effects, like stunning or turret block, or, maybe with small chanses even engine damage.
Majority, that wrote in that old thread agreed with those buffs actually, because they making artillery more effective as long-range random-effective support guns.
Guess, it would be real best way to make Howitzers more effective in thier support role.
Suppression is very good idea. Actually, infantry getting heavy arty fire used to go prone to avoid shrapnels.
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Make howitzers like other team weapons that don't get destroyed while crewed.
Decrease cost to 320-360
Lower number of shells to 4 for lefh (150 damage), 3 for ml20 (200 damage), 1 B4 (600) damage
AOE small for full damage, but larger AOE for smaller damage plus suppression (at large distance from center the lefh and ml20 should only have 0.3x damage)
Make vet abilities be smoke, arty flares, and maybe reduced cooldown. Possibly precision strike but make that cost munitions
The old ML20 that shot 4-5 shells but had good AOE was fine. People didn't use it much because Relic gave everyone CAS. The buff then nerf made it lousy. The lefh would be about as bad except that the target size for sim city is large enough to make the lefh useful.
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less shells and bigger boom
Simple And quite nice.
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less shells and bigger boom
Simple And quite nice.
less shells and bigger boom is just going to cause more Squad swipe, especially against the wehr grenadier.
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Make gun not break when crewed
Give plethora of abilities
Give suppression
Make all barrages (and abilities) cost muni
Reduce MP cost
No chance of spam, good support unit. Relying on it reduces off maps and mines and upgrades.
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Its mostly about them being cost prohibitive and the risk/reward of them being 1 shotted by an offmap (especially in team games) resulting in them currently being not worth it. A token fuel cost in exchange for MP makes sense (it's what relic did for Land Mattress).
I'm kind of intrigued by Brad's suggestion to drastically reduce price but also reduce range to promote more forward building of Howies. It would make them more accessible AND more effective due to the reduced scatter of being closer. I don't think it would solve the problem but it's a good starting point to think from.
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Limit to 1
Maybe 2? 1 Howitzer can't be enough, really. 2 is always OK, making more is throwing MP and popcap into nothing.
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