How to use artillery?

[Necro]

mainly rebel.. i use the spotters scanner sweet but as soon as it fades out the artillery moves into visual range which promptly gets them their asses kicked!

 

if i move the spotters to the target won't they just get shot rigth away.

[R2-Opus2]

I never ever move those robot spotters into harm's way.  I always put them in some obscure as-out-of-the-way spots on the map that I can, since its scanner can target any section of map without having to be there.  The artillery pieces I keep in the rear, just behind a force in front of it of infantry/Plex, TB-4s or TB-2s - basically I use a strategy of overlapping protection.  If I have them as well, I may have a flight of 3-6 airspeeders for things that slip through my lines.

 

In short, I use units that can actually fight as my artillery units' true "spotters", and only occasionally ever need to use the ones it comes with for things such as bombing run targets still under fog of war.

[kingdark]

u need to spraed your artelry, mostly they detect enemy on their own, use a infantrie squad as fodder,(they mostly are doomed then) so you can scout out enemys, but be sure to always protect your artelery

[Holly-Gan]

I try to get up some sensor nodes too, that helps a lot.

[Necro]

the problem si once i scan a location the art shoots once then since it blacks out, tries to move to see it themselves.

[Lord Pickle]

Plus.

 

Remember there is no friendly fire. So just ake some T-4B tanks and send them in the center of a group of enemies then call in the arty. The 4b's are tough enough to hold up to the fire then two arty strikes will kill pretty much anything around the tanks.

[Venrai]

their will be friendly fire, game needs that if their going to use overpowered bombing runs.

[Dorkthehunter]

their will be friendly fire, game needs that if their going to use overpowered bombing runs.

 

But there isn't. The bombing runs don't hurt your own troops(yet), so by all means, if the enemy is on top of you, bomb yourselves and get your enemies.

[NOT Hadoken13]

i hope no one adds friendly fire...i hate friendly fire :-\

[whydontatatsfeetfreeze]

Heres a quick FOC artilerry tip.

 

Works well on Bothan bonanza.

 

On each of the river crossings, place two mdus. On one build a sheild generator and on the other build a repair station. Then place the MPTL in the sheild. Should keep off infantry and light veichles for a LOOONG.. time.

[5i1]

Umm this topic died a long time ago, and their talking about the original EAW.