Arty Rebalance

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Arty could definitely use a rework:

  1. Currently, enemy can see your strikes marked on the map before they arrive. This makes no sense and undermines the effect of the artillery strike, which are supposed to soften defenses and interdict reinforcement lines - not close off areas to combat. Early warning should be eliminated for enemy bombers and arty, and retained for friendly strikes.

  2. The reason they felt the need to do this in the first place was because, currently, the arty is too deadly - 9/10 cases when I get caught in arty strike, my entire squad is instantly killed, even if they are prone or in trenches/foxholes. This makes no sense; arty should be lethal to standing targets in the open, and much less effective against prone/entrenched targets.

  3. No FF with arty and bombers creates the absurd situation that attackers are incentivized to call arty strikes directly on the objective and then run right into it, while defenders are forced to retreat. FF should be restored.

Combining all of these changes would allow arty to once again be fairly used in accordance with combined arms doctrine: by attackers to soften defenses ahead of assault (but not with the expectation that it will clear all defenders); and by defenders to interdict attacker reinforcements (again, slowing them down due to the need to find cover, but not necessarily causing mass casualties).

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I agree, it’s not right to show it on the minimap

And the Fire Range needs to be a little wider as well

There is no major reason to use Radio Man

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I could be wrong, but I think this is only if you also have a Radio Op in your squad because there are times I don’t see the strike on the map. Could just be hidden against the background though especially on Tunisia. Again, could be wrong

This is weird. I normally steer completely clear of arty strikes anyways so I don’t experience dying to it if I’m prone behind cover. However, I do know it can kill you inside certain buildings. There’s a particular one in Normandy that I know darn well won’t protect you from plane strafes nor arty strikes (and it does help to abuse since it’s an objective building). Only one I’m aware of though

Yeah I’d rather not accidentally wipe my own team, and there are a ton of people who don’t know how to effectively arty strike and put them on the wrong side of objective. No thanks