In short: it’s really underwhelming.
Most of the time tanks escape barrage zone but one of the tanks I encountered yesterday stayed there. It was +/- in the middle of the zone and received whole salvo. Result was: destroyed optics and few parts turned yellow.
In my opinion arty should do much more dmg to tanks (even destroy them) to force them to move. It would be an option to prevent them from camping.
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Tanks cannot cap. You have to leave vehicles to capture a zone
EDIT. Read cap at first my bad
I think arty is quite underwhelming overall, not just against tanks but against infantry too. I had huge trouble to finish battle tasks that involved killing people with arty, and when I was in the barrage zone myself it was mostly an inconvenience due to the stun effect, its killing potential feels quite weak. It already has a rather long cooldown and the area of effect and duration aren’t very impressive either. In my opinion it should either receive buff to barrage duration so that it serves as a suppression tool against enemy strongpoints, or a buff to lethality, to serve as a sure-kill option against immobilized vehicles or infantry in light cover.
Did you unlock 30 sec artillery reload? with this arty is super op (especially in rush mods) 50-80 kills without dying is nothing special.
I don’t know about that, I’ve seen plenty of tanks on the receiving end of an arty spam pummelling, and none of them just drove off like nothing had happened afterwards.
Arty is already easy mode in its present state, I don’t think we need to make it more powerful.
Well, that certainly changes things, I admit I didn’t notice that upgrade (probably because the ability in its basic state felt so weak that I ditched the radio squad) and my complaint applies to the basic arty ability without taking upgrade into consideration
However if that’s the case, then arty still needs tweaking, since its basic form is kinda weak, and the upgrade makes it overpowered
Teach me, i have this unlocked, spamming cap points, spawn points, spam everything…and got 5 kill 
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You either encounter noobs or bots. Every player with minimal knowledge can avoid arty with ease.
I was killed by arty maybe 1-2 times since OBT.
As I’ve said, mostly yellow dmg, maybe orange. So basically nothing.
Not even broken track.
Bad luck. If he was sitting stock still, normally that’s a kill.
If you ever kill a fully operational tank with arty strike then please send me a video.
Without that I just can’t believe you because none of what I’ve seen was even close to killing a tank.
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I could counter with: my experience is different from yours, therefore why should I believe you? Do you see how that’s not particularly helpful?
I know, that’s why I asked for a video. For me it just sounds like a fairy tale.
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It’s not that I don’t believe you but I wasn’t even close to achieving this.
Well, I’m sorry, but that’s what I’ll assume your story is then. If that’s how you’re going to be. 
What tank you’ve killed? I tried bombing stuarts. (Maybe broken dmg model is the case)