Artillery 101

The scope of this guide is to explain the artillery function in how it's used and how it should be used.

Disclaimer

Contents of this guide are based on my observations, experience and opinions, and may contain inaccuracies. If you have differing opinions or something that you'd want me to add to this guide, feel free to let me know.

Artillery in Short

The artillery is support tool that can be used in both offensive and defensive ways by officer as long as he has a radist within approximate 2m range. The artillery offers 2 options, explosive and smoke rounds which have their own ideal uses and limitations.

Using Artillery

To use artillery, officer must have radist nearby and aim at the wanted target. To achieve best results, aiming down sights should be used to target the wanted position. The target is determined by line of sight to the first visible surface. Once you have acquired the wanted target, open the radial menu and click twice to show the artillery options and radio request option. Select the wanted artillery type and click to request the barrage. However, both explosive and smoke artillery can and should be bound to separate keys in the settings to speed up the process.

Timeline of the Barrage

The artillery has 75 second cooldown that is shared by the rounds but not by the officers, meaning that each officer can request one barrage every 75 seconds.

0 sec The barrage is called.
5 sec The barrage is fired, giving audio cue.
15 sec The first round hits target area.
30 sec The last round hits target area.
75 sec The artillery is off cooldown and can be requested again.

Tactics - Explosive

Work in progress.

Tactics - Smoke

Work in progress.

[Mr. Iron]

2016 guide and still WIP lol, bro gave up. You put as much work into this as watering some plants. Tough work eh?

[tonton]

hi man PEACE TO THE PEOPLE, stop the war stop the war. no more guns in iraq

[{WeB}*Modtools*]

** JADEN :)

[WILDHORSES]

Modtools!

[{WeB}*Modtools*]

aircrafttactics on the way :)

[Red]

Modtools has great tactics there that can be added to the guide. Now there are also aircraft attacks, would be great to add these in also.

[{WeB}*Modtools*]

tactics- explosive:
the explosive charges are good for breakthrough operations.
they are setted in front or behind the enemy, to cut their reinforcements down.
Best way is to use them with heavy machinegun support to get the enemy unable to shoot and force them to wait.
The next step is to take the opportunity and try an attack (flanking can used as option).

tactics- smoke:
smoke is a support tool to cut enemy viewrange down.
there are a few ways to use it.
1) use it in front of you or the enemy point to get the avaiability to push to a specific position
2) use it to recover and get out of situations you cannot win.
3) ...

tactics- white phosporus (atm only british):
phosphorus is a rain out of fire to get your enemy in mood to die.
Its a hellish tool with the biggest psychological effect.
It should be used in situations where your enemy has entrenched in some areas
and you cannot get to him without big loses.
So force him to leave his position.

[TЯN]

But what about phosphorus for the British

[Billy Slapnuts]

I use V for explosive arty, and B for smoke. It's nice and fast, I look down the ironsights, V, and duck before I get sniped.

[Waldrick]

Can someone give the the 2 commands you type in console to bind the explosive and smoke plz