I completely agree. Artillery feels under-powered and kind of useless. Improving the damage stats would make me more tempted to actually use artillery.

Disagree, towed artillery is very cheap. And very usefull against AI. If towed artillery would have more power it would be OP. If other artsystem would have more power they would outsource towed artillery to much. Also selfpropelled artsystems and MRL's are little beat weak, but it give ballance to towed artsystem. We dont need more power for towed artillery, cause it would be OP.
And towed artillery has smallest range, also another disadvantage against MRL's and SPA's, also MRL and SPA dont need a power buff too.

I love the towed artillery. I often have 2 or 3 units of them following other stacks to ease territory and city capturing, especially when I can't afford to devote as much resources to researching tank units.

I agree that balancing out one artillery unit would upset the balance with the other 2. But in comparison to other firesupport units, namely gunships, Strike Fighters, Bombers, Warships. Artillery isn't worth it's value with it's current damage stats.

Increase the towed artillery Inf Atk and Def stat by 0.5.
A level 7 towed artillery Inf Atk stat 3.5-4
A level 7 towed artillery Inf Def stat 2-2.5

Increase the defensive inf and armor stats of the mobile artillery by 1.
Mobile Artillery lv.7 Inf Def stat 3-4
Mobile Artillery lv.7 Armor Def stat 2-3

Increase the Armor Atk stat by 1.5 for the MRLS
MRLS lv.7 Armor Atk stat 5-6.5

I don't get how a minor stat modification such as the ones I suggested will make Artillery Op when Artillery seems under powered in comparison to most other ground units in terms of damage.

It's worth noting that a Lv.6 Cruiser has the following Damage Stats:
Inf Atk 5 (Just one short of the Lv.7 mobile artillery)
Armor Atk 4 (Same as mobile artillery)
also has 25 more range than Mobile Artillery.

Why I point this out. Because a typical cruiser has one or two Naval guns. A mobile Artillery Unit represents a regiment of SPGs (More guns equals more firepower). These Stats don't really reflect reality. You would need a couple of warships to bring the same kind of gunnery firepower a SPG regiment can bring to bare. Especially since post world war 2 warships have favored lower caliber Naval Guns.

Good stuff here - will check it out and adjust if we go along with your arguments.

Keep it up guys.

//G

You should note that artillery has less HP, and each shot kills more% of total hp. And improvement brings highest percentage increase of base HP.
With amount of ressource, espesially manpower (and since we dont have next update with lowering manpower cost of anexing city, player can be out of manpower). Also for same amount of ressource and manpower you have more militar units of towed artillery, which definitivly would kill unranged enemy if enemy attack without airsuperioty and artillery user is online. And fight versus AI is towed artillery usefull even with 0.1 power of damage: use it for luring AI troops out of town, then kill them with other troops, point. Fat POINT.
If towed artillery user attack a target who is not online, it is already huge advantage.

Like i said: there are not need of buff for towed artillery. And SPA of european doktrin are already powerfull enough without any buff. MLR's with their range and HP don't need buff too.

Reinforcement (buff) may result in excessive use or artillery, what would disadvantage player with less online time.

I love using arties, and I must say, they are perfect, every one and each of them. Absolutely no buff needed. They ravage other units. Combine some good AA with them in a different stack and have some infantry/armor next to them, they will be doing lots and lots of dammagge, MLRS is superb. But mobile arties are as well as you can fly them together with airborne. Due to that ability they should definitely not be buffed. All arties are perfect just the way they are is my opinion.

They have buffed the MRLS in a update giving it more AT power. So that suggestion has already been implemented. Very happy.

Hello Gents,
As Lord Aodhan noticed, we have taken your suggestions seriously and took decision of slightly improving higher levels of Artillery. I hope you enjoy being part of beta stage of the game

Artillery is quite good. It takes long time IRL to win only with arty.
In game I use it against dissents mainly.

nah, it's ok, problem is - price. As for me it has more sense to use air force than artillery - cost/effectiveness. What I miss in towed art. is using it as coastal art. Range is just not good enough to do that fast enough.

No arty is good because air force can take damages or be intercepted. Artillery is good to preserve your air forces.

every unit has its role on the modern battlefield. But price/effectiveness here prevents me from making many artys (mobile ofc). I could say: arty can be bombed, destroyed by missiles etc. But what is the point to prove superiority one over another? My style is to strike fast and overwhelming (I don't need to preserve my airforces - there are calculated looses), even mobile arty can't provide me with enough speed. Now with that prices of mobile arty? Forget man. But please people, build it, build it a lot - it will be easier for me and other like me to win One proven pro_s of mobile arty is using it for offline defence purposes (especially against naval invasion).

PS changing price of mobile arty from supplies to components would have opposite effect - comp. are needed for many important units, better option would be to divide it between supplies and components (perhaps more of them than supp.).

PSS

The message contains censored words: pro_s What the hell is that?

Let me just add in one thing. Some people are really treating this game like a game, I wish that it was treated more like a simulation. I think artillery should be more powerful, maybe not so much against armour but definately against infantry.
Let me put things into perspective, a M67 grenade weighs 14 oz (400 g) and has a kill zone of 5 metres (16 ft). A M107 High Explosive projectile weighs 41.86 kilograms (92.3 lb), think about that for a second.
I seriously think that more power is needed.

Artillery might be useful if anti missile and AA systems would work properly. But actually, airstrike+missiles are just OP.
With a good anti missile/AA, you would need artillery to break lines and defenses.
Now, they are just good against dissents, to save your missiles...