It really needs to be possible to stealth kill/target gun crews

[Maenethal]

Had to reload several times trying to take out a field mortar. I took out all the other guards in the camp stealthily, but my only option to take out the artillery is to shoot at the gun itself, not the crew.

[Adeon Hawkwood]

Yeah it would be nice to be able to use stealth and bayonet attacks on howitzer and machine gun crews.

One thing I did notice with the howitzers, if you're close to them when you attack then the crew will exit the gun (presumably due to being inside minimum range). So you can stealth up to it, force them out and then kill them allowing you to save the gun for your use.

[Bui93]

Originally posted by Maenethal:

Had to reload several times trying to take out a field mortar. I took out all the other guards in the camp stealthily, but my only option to take out the artillery is to shoot at the gun itself, not the crew.

Exactly, let's hope that at launch they will add the ability to kill crews stealthily,

[xpac]

Well that didn't happen...

[YouMustBeMythtaken]

You can stealth HMG guys, I did that during the cathedral mission. But yeah, you can't stealth Howitzers yet unfortunatly.

[TANK]

In the mission " Red training camp" there are two howitzer, one on either hill. Both can be stealth killed. You can Stealth Kill everyone and everything (except for vehicles and red explosion barrels/crates).

[YouMustBeMythtaken]

Originally posted by TANK:

In the mission " Red training camp" there are two howitzer, one on either hill. Both can be stealth killed. You can Stealth Kill everyone and everything (except for vehicles and red explosion barrels/crates).

Really? My attempt to stealth kill the howitzers failed! They just walked up to the howitzer and stood there. The crew ran for the telegraph, almost managed to do it before I noticed that was happening and turned sneak of so my guys would shoot

[Torpex]

Crew on the first hill was not crewing it. So I killed them. On the 2nd hill they did, so I had to toss a grenade. Range on those 3" is pathetic, so not much use really.

MGs on the other hand are great on that map.

[YouMustBeMythtaken]

Originally posted by Torpex:

Crew on the first hill was not crewing it. So I killed them. On the 2nd hill they did, so I had to toss a grenade. Range on those 3" is pathetic, so not much use really.

MGs on the other hand are great on that map.

Yeah the HMG's on the back make the end of the mission, with the returning troops, a complete joke. Which is the point ofc lmao

[The Tempted Man]

Originally posted by TANK:

In the mission " Red training camp" there are two howitzer, one on either hill. Both can be stealth killed. You can Stealth Kill everyone and everything (except for vehicles and red explosion barrels/crates).

Stealth kiling crew kills the machine. Also worth to note,soldiers will automatically kill enemies that go by them during stealth, so if you happe nto have a patrol that just touches the edges of your hiding place, soldier will kill the enemy, even in front of others and AI won't trigger the combat state.

[Enola Gay]

it's a bit buggy. My guys are able to basically 1 shot stealth kill howitzers and lmg's god knows how. But my bayonet charges bug out and they stop in place if the enemy moves even a fraction during said charge

[Andrej Kalinin]

If you kill all people around, its best to just kill the crew "loud" and use the Gun for yourself.

You can definitely see that developers did not intend for you to kill the cannon crew and then use that cannon/mortar. But YES, you can.

Kill all enemies that are close to the cannon. Then tactically position your men in stealth mode around the cannon. Disable stealth for one of your soldiers so he can start shooting the cannon and its crew. That will make the cannon crew leave the gun. Pause the game, order all your men to stop hiding, and shoot them. After killing them, immediately stop the game and order everyone to hide again, because even an empty cannon is still counted as an enemy until manned by your men.

Choose two soldiers, man the cannon, and enjoy the power. Some missions are really fun with cannons on your side.

[xpac]

This is really frustrating. I can knife-kill everybody stealthily, but doing that to a gun crew that is completely ignorant of my 8 people just standing right next to them is impossible.
The solution to go loud is possible, but rather terrible for obvious reasons (being loud, chance of still taking hits by gun crew, sometimes the gun just explodes after 2-3 shots...)
This can only be an oversight - but then, the "howitzers" have so little range (which is understandable because else they could just clean the whole map).... but still...