I’ve noticed periodically that when I call in Artillery, it gets acknowledged but the artillery barrage doesn’t take place. I never noticed if this happened in common games as the artillery is basically non stop, but I’ve noticed it in custom matches when I am the only one calling for it. I call for it, wait for it and it never comes. It gets acknowledged, and when I try to recall it, it shows that I have to wait since I just called for it. This doesn’t happen much, maybe one game out of 20 or 30, but just curious as if anyone else has noticed this.
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yup, happens to me.
usually when the arty guy is downed or stuck in an ammo box or house etc
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It even happens if I call it from my moving APC, so, no chance my Arty guy was stuck in an ammo box at that point. However, I get a lot of guys stuck in crates and stuck to the wall like they were spiderman or something. 
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It doesn’t work if you call it from a vehicle or AT/AA emplacement. It doesn’t matter if your radio chap is in or out of the unit, you’re the one who needs to be on foot for it to work.
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But for some reason, it works when you’re chilling in an MG nest.
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Mine usually works when I am calling it from my APC, but whether I call it from my stationary radioman on the ground or with my radioman on the fly in the APC, it works 90% of the time, but on some rare occasions, I call it in and wait for it to never materialize. I like to time my rushing in assault to the very end of the artillery barrage, which usually works great, unless it doesn’t come.
ive called in a lot of artillery strikes while im driving around in a APC
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yup, thats where most of my arty strikes are actually called in
Interesting. Never seems to work for me, but maybe because I’m usually stationary when I call it.
it doesn’t matter wether stationary or not.
also why is it when i pawn in a tank/APC the engine is off?
I use the tech tree apc when I call it in also I usually call it the strike when im going in a straight line so I dont end up crashing into a random obstacle.
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dude this damn bug has pissed me off so much… last time i played i counted it went up to 6 times before he called it in!
Sometimes this is remedied by using the mouse instead of controller however it’s very inconvenient to reach over for it each time i want to call in arty… i wouldn’t have to though if mnk support existed 
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I can’t say it always works, but I call it in before my APC stops moving. The last time was in a custom match in Tunisia. I called it in, then stopped the APC to fire machine guns into the market and in a few seconds artillery started falling and I saw the kills, so, I know it at least works some time.
The times I notice artillery not working the most is when I am on foot, call it in and I am waiting just outside of range for it to land, and I start charging just as the last salvo’s are exploding. So when I am waiting…and waiting…and waiting and nothing comes, I assume it failed.
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