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ComradeP -> RE: Soviet artillery div/brigades (8/22/2011 11:48:17 PM)
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If you're not retreating the defender on the first attack, you're doing it wrong, and holding back artillery is a false economy. Blasting a hole on the front line is what they are for.
That depends on whether holding back artillery for the first attack will allow for a successful second or even third attack, which widens the breach further. Removing the defenders from a single hex, or two hexes isn't going to do you much good as you're still advancing into and out of ZOC.
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Good comments from both, but both have missed original point insomuch as is there a difference in solo pre use or all in one attack?
I thought you meant whether it was better to use all the artillery in one attack or to spread it out, but if you meant whether you should make artillery only attacks: no, those are not worth it, only use them in combination with an attack by a combat unit. It doesn't have to be a big combat unit, you can get good results with brigades against weak units, but divisions or preferably corps work best for obvious reasons.
As to where to assign them: now that units belonging to a different HQ won't give CV penalties to all units involved in a battle, I guess you could keep artillery units attached to STAVKA as it doesn't matter if the artillery unit CV is dropped, as guns have no CV weight factor to begin with. However, some people are reporting that they get notably less supplies/ammo/fuel when units are attached to STAVKA, so you might want to check what especially the ammunition looks like when the on-map artillery units are attached to STAVKA.
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