Artillery Power - Question

[Baumℙ𝕚𝕝𝕫]

I just attacked a city of about 100 troops with a 200 men strong unit. After the first "respawn wave," the enemy (in this case Rekvik) chose to spawn in their 3 M109 artillery tanks. This led to the 𝖆𝖓𝖓𝖎𝖍𝖎𝖑𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 of 7 Abrams Xs.
I, myself, do not use artillery rather than aircraft. Does anyone know if AI-Artillery actually is OP, or if this 𝖊𝖝𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖒𝖎𝖓𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 was actually caused by my lack of skill?

[Spedsnaz]

All artillery is OP no matter if its the Ai or you. I exterminated an entire Ai army of about 300 with about 100 garrison and a crap load of arty of map.

[[☀] Quadcore]

Arty in this game are OP. When you or the enemy have two to three of it fielded in a single battle, it will cause massive damage to the other side, as you have witnessed.

Fighting against Arty will require some spacing out and pushing into flanks. Don't put your valuable asset grouped. It will certainly make the enemy arty easier time to zero in to yours. Practice some distance and get ready make ballsy move to flank those arty.

[Wolf King]

Originally posted by Baumℙ𝕚𝕝𝕫:

I just attacked a city of about 100 troops with a 200 men strong unit. After the first "respawn wave," the enemy (in this case Rekvik) chose to spawn in their 3 M109 artillery tanks. This led to the 𝖆𝖓𝖓𝖎𝖍𝖎𝖑𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 of 7 Abrams Xs.
I, myself, do not use artillery rather than aircraft. Does anyone know if AI-Artillery actually is OP, or if this 𝖊𝖝𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖒𝖎𝖓𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 was actually caused by my lack of skill?

lack of skills, artillery is also op but i love arty chaaaa boooyyyy. best thing to do is rush arty or have your own

[Oppaliumm]

You can counter them with heavy air strike. I use like 60 planes/heli per battles and a lot of them i use to destroy arti. The thing that should be removed is the out map arti, because it ruin your army and you can't destroy it.

[GrumpyOldMan]

Arty is totally OP and actually made me stop playing the game for now. Its no fun no matter what side uses it.

[Eightball]

Arty is for sure stronk. Whenever I see the AI has arty, I usually flank with either a tank or mechanised squad, who then call in counter arty/airstrikes on the enemy one.

My army composition is usually 2 tanks (armoured squad), 2 mechanised, 2 anti air (armoured squad), 2 artillery (armoured squad) and 2 infantry squads. As you are only allowed to field 10 squads at once I generally don't go over this and just cycle out armies while each gets replenished after a battle. The armour squads only have 2 men for the vehicle only.

Often my battles are 48 men vs 300 men and I still win almost every time. Good use of tanks, artillery and call ins of airstrikes are devastating. With 2 AA in good positions you often can shoot down enemy air before they strike you and without so many men on the field enemy artillery does not hit you half as bad.

[GrumpyOldMan]

Originally posted by Eightball:

Arty is for sure stronk. Whenever I see the AI has arty, I usually flank with either a tank or mechanised squad, who then call in counter arty/airstrikes on the enemy one.

Same here but it makes gameplay focus all on just destroying the enemy arty with unimmersive and unrealistic tactics and feeling, creating such a bad overall gameplay feeling in my opinion.

[New Player]

Artillery is the king of the battlefield. This game, despite its simplistic AI, the inclusion of combined arms along with its robust but simplistic economy makes it a satisfying war simulator. You have to deploy APCs, tanks and infantry along with two artillery pieces and you will win the entire map easily as long as you have the production to replenish the losses.

[GrumpyOldMan]

Originally posted by StartingToday:

Artillery is the king of the battlefield. This game, despite its simplistic AI, the inclusion of combined arms along with its robust but simplistic economy makes it a satisfying war simulator. You have to deploy APCs, tanks and infantry along with two artillery pieces and you will win the entire map easily as long as you have the production to replenish the losses.

Nope you just need a handful soldiers and 20+ artillery pieces in a second army behind them and you will easily win every encounter by just bombarding the enemy spawn.

[alchemist]

Place your men under trees if the enemy has artillery. Currently, trees will make the shells or rockets explode above. Yes, it will still injure or kill some men, but it doesn't do nearly as much damage compared to out in the open. I don't find artillery that OP, but I expect high losses in heavily mechanized battles with numerous SPA and MRLS systems. I got wrecked in a battle recently. It wasn't artillery, but numerous enemy tanks in a settlement that destroyed half of my first wave in the first 30 seconds. Overall, I lost 1/3 of my battalion in that battle.

[alchemist]

Originally posted by GrumpyOldMan:

Originally posted by StartingToday:

Artillery is the king of the battlefield. This game, despite its simplistic AI, the inclusion of combined arms along with its robust but simplistic economy makes it a satisfying war simulator. You have to deploy APCs, tanks and infantry along with two artillery pieces and you will win the entire map easily as long as you have the production to replenish the losses.

Nope you just need a handful soldiers and 20+ artillery pieces in a second army behind them and you will easily win every encounter by just bombarding the enemy spawn.

Yes, I was thinking about doing this. Making artillery focused battalions for support purposes. If that battalion is attacked, it would get wrecked by fast moving tanks and APC's.

[RC GSG9]

Artillery is supposed to be powerful everyone complaining its OP doesn't know anything about it

[GrumpyOldMan]

Originally posted by RC GSG9:

Artillery is supposed to be powerful everyone complaining its OP doesn't know anything about it

Ah yes, that of course justifies game breaking weapons / features.

I vote for nuclear bombs next...

[RC GSG9]

Originally posted by GrumpyOldMan:

Originally posted by RC GSG9:

Artillery is supposed to be powerful everyone complaining its OP doesn't know anything about it

Ah yes, that of course justifies game breaking weapons / features.

I dont want it to be useless like every other game makes it

[biggusdikkus]

AI Air and arty power are so op rn every invasion my first target is the airfield, minus one of two problems... but the arty is relentless.