Is the Whitworth worth it?

[apocal43]

I see I have three of them available in the shop and they look good on paper, but only three tubes is a helluva small number in comparison to my other artillery brigades -- mostly twenty-four guns with a handful of ten gun brigades for stuff like 24pdr howitzers. Is the Whitworth good enough to buy?

[Legion]

Imo all of the rifled guns need work. I rarley use any rifled gun unless I capture it. I wouldn't buy it, I'd spend money on the 24lb howitzer or some napoleons.

[Tenno]

I start buying them whenever they're avaiable, in my experience Rifled guns always performed better than howitzers and smoothbores.

[apocal43]

Originally posted by 1st LA Legion:

Imo all of the rifled guns need work. I rarley use any rifled gun unless I capture it. I wouldn't buy it, I'd spend money on the 24lb howitzer or some napoleons.

Originally posted by King:

I start buying them whenever they're avaiable, in my experience Rifled guns always performed better than howitzers and smoothbores.

Mind detailing your uses of artillery? I'm not saying either of you are wrong or anything, I'd just like to know if the reason for your differing experiences are due to different styles of employing artillery.

[Bullero]

12 pdr Whitworth is pretty good, that gun have cannister shot at the range of shrapnell shot of most cannons.

[Tenno]

Honestly I never looked too much at my artillery, I just throw the whole division dedicated for artillery in whatever seems to be high ground behind my battle line and let them fire away.

150-300 kills per battery usually, if I get pushed back and they switch to explosive its easily triple that by the end of battle however.

I've tried to use Explosive and Canister offensively but didn't have much success that compensated the risk or it just wasn't effective enough either way.

[CrashToDesktop]

Get both. Much better. I once had a unit of Whitworths get 3000 kills, and in most battles they'd get more than 1000.

Cannon are good whenever you can get them - dedicate a division to them and you'll be fine, keep your smoothbores and howitzers close to your frontlines and rifled cannon a little further back for safety. The smoothbores and howitzers in particular are good for cracking a tough defense or Routing a charging enemy unit with Canister. Well worth the risk you use.

[heinz]

does arty kill more when they can see the target (i.e. you click on the arty unit and the map lights up showing where it can see) or if you give it a clear line of sight (not putting it behind a unit) but putting it up front on on the edge of some woods for example

[AlaxeltheshadowHamed]

Originally posted by Lillibullero:

12 pdr Whitworth is pretty good, that gun have cannister shot at the range of shrapnell shot of most cannons.

This right here, the 12 pdr has crazy range for canister. Gets a couple MUCH more accurate canister shots off before the charging enemy unit gets there

[johntrago]

They definatly work. I never paid much attention to them due to cost. I was watching Battlefield Detectives: Anteitam, and the havok and destruction they brought was one of the reasons for the high kill numbers, and I thought I would give it a try.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC1c4youGkQ

What I noticed was the whitworths would open up long before any of the others due to their range and soften up the Confederates for when my Infantry arrived to dislodge/destroy them. They become available in 3`s and not very otend. By the time I reached Fredricksburg, I had accumulated 12 of them. Poor Confederates, they didnt stand much of a chance.