artillery officer

Jump back to quoted post21 Jul 2013, 20:24 PMQvazar

I've heard his squad total dps is just like that on a vanilla gren squad.
I always have him out when available, his smoke and aura ability is great.
And if you got a panzerwerfer, he can make it shoot almost continually with no cooldown between barrages, very good on maps with a lot of munitions, like Pripyat Winter

Jump back to quoted post21 Jul 2013, 20:34 PMSturmTigerFlu

U mean sheldt v. 2.0

Jump back to quoted post21 Jul 2013, 20:36 PMQvazar

Close, but that title goes to Pripyat Spring

Ok, because people are talking about the coordinated fire (victor target) ability of the officer: It does not cause a cooldown of the artillery pieces, allowing you to basically shoot for 3 barrages without stopping.

From the stats, it also does this (I hope it doesn't apply any other modifiers, those are just weapon stats):
Mortar: Doubles the range (to 160, auto attack is 80) and doubles the damage. Also makes it much more accurate but it fires more slowly.

Mortar HT: Just theoretical, you currently can't have a mortar HT and the officer (unless you recrew one). It doubles the range and makes it much more accurate.

Panzerwerfer: Increases the range from 160 to 240 and makes it a bit more accurate. I think the main use with Panzerwerfers to time it so you basically shoot three salvoes without interruption.

le FH 10.5 cm: Doubles the range (should be able to hit anything on the map with that), makes it fire slightly faster and slightly more accurate. It also increases its AOE damage radius. Overall, this is huge synergy!


From the stats, I'd say that the ability is severely underestimated. Sure, you need the units already but its sheer power should be able to deal with basically everything.

About the "makes it more accurate": For everything but the mortars, I think that the accuracy increase is mainly a consequence of their maximum scatter (unchanged for everything but mortars) being applied to their larger range. This results in a smaller angle.
This basically means that at or near their new maximum range, they will be about as accurate as they were at or near their old maximum range. However, when not shooting at their new max range, they'll be much more accurate.

Jump back to quoted post22 Jul 2013, 21:34 PMrofltehcat

Before coh2stats went down, I posted the following thing in a thread over on GR. In combination with the right artillery units, his victor target ability can be extremely strong. It is very inconsistent with the normal barrages and some artillery pieces really get great boni from the ability. Remember that I had this information from coh2stats so I had to assume that the stats are correct: