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Chickenboy -> RE: Artillery Death Stars Continue Post Patch Two (1/2/2010 12:24:28 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel
Gents,
As noted, the Hot Fix seems to have satisfactorily toned down heavy bombardments, at least for troops behind fortifications. But a recent bombardment against troops in the open had pretty drastic losses, so I wonder about the overall affect of artillery.
After installing the Hot Fix, Miller has employed massed Japanese artillery against strongly fortified Chinese positions. The losses have been reasonable with troops behind four to six forts suffering roughly 200 casualties a day. To me, this is solid evidence that the affect of artillery against entrenched troops is within reason.
We just had our first post-Hot Fix experience with concentrated artillery against unintrencehed troops. A strong Allied army (2500 AV) advanced from Cox's Bazaar to Akyab, where 1900 Japanese AV are posted. Both sides have about six artillery units: the Japanese are the usual "strong" units (mortars, medium FA, etc.) while the Allies are mostly the weaker "Mountain Artillery" type. The Allies bombarded on consecutive days with miserable results the first day (the Allies suffered 400 casualties while inflicting just 100 on the first day). On days three and four, the Japanese bombarded. On one of those two days the Allies suffered 1000 casualties (the actual number of squads and guns lost was relatively high, too).
It may be that these results are an anomoly - that the Allies just had a particularly bad day - or it may be that unintrneched troops are destined to take high casualties from artillery. It is also possible that the increased supply usage by artillery will dissuade sustained bombardments like this one.
I'll continue to post here as we have additional data come in during the game, but if this early data is accurate and representative of what is to be expected, I'd say that atillery is still a little too potent.
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I'll have something meaningful to add to this discussion in the near term, as I am investing Bataan and Singapore with large numbers of supporting independent artillery battalions and regiments and will also be attacking Chengchow with a massive IJA assault, including at least 8 independent artillery units. The Chenchow operation is nearly the same assault as I ran with my other PBEM opponent prepatch II (and hotfix), so it ought to be an approximate apples to apples conversation.
I would expect (from other much more limited examples) that artillery damage is between one half and one third as effective prepatch / hotfix, but let's see what the data say.
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