British Mortar Pit Suggestion

Jump back to quoted post14 Feb 2017, 22:12 PMPlanet Smasher

I made this idea into a small mod, or rather updated an old mod that did something similar.

• Ordnance ML 3-inch Mortar Team:
  Buildable in British T1 for 240MP. Slower rate of fire than the German GrW 34, but more accurate. White Phosphorous Barrage at Vet 1. Counter Barrage unlocked with the Advanced Emplacement Regiment.
  
  
• Artillery Pit:
  Replaces the British Mortar Emplacement. An empty structure that can be built by Royal Engineers for 100MP. All mobile mortars and artillery pieces can be garrisoned and receive a 15% bonus to the range of their barrage abilities. When empty, the structure can be garrisoned by the enemy. (Might be restricted to mortars only. Still playing around!)
  
  
• Known Issue:
  Artillery guns and heavy mortars can only fire to the front side of the emplacement, because they can't move or rotate while garrisoned. I'm not sure if this can be changed.

It's available on the Workshop:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=679152285

Jump back to quoted post15 Feb 2017, 01:48 AMZombiFrancis

As far as artillery guns and heavy mortars not being able to rotate, I wonder if the answer lies in how ATG emplacements work. I wager when they garrison the artillery pit there'd have to be some sort of aiming and facing mechanism implemented to get them to function properly.

Although now that I think about it, instead of "artillery pit" why not "fighting position"?

MGs could be faced like in a garrison.

Infantry could use it like a trench.

This proposed mortar team could use it like a mortar pit.

It could be capture-able by enemy squads. It'd fit the theme of the faction to have static positions, and infantry are already sort of supposed to garrison emplacements.