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M60A3TTS -> RE: State of the field artillery troops (6/26/2021 2:00:51 AM)
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Here is a summary of the tube artillery in the Soviet inventory.
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The standard artillery piece I use for the assault front armies is the ML-20 152mm Gun-Howitzer. The 1941 Army Artillery Regiment has 36 guns each and there is no upgrade path for the TO&E so it is always the same. With up to 6 regiments assigned to an army, it can be an effective weapon. Like just about all artillery, it has the most success against unfortified hexes. In June 1943 these support unit regiments will start to be disbanded and replaced with on-map Cannon Divisions of 108 ML-20s each. Any ML-20s that the AI maps to units under 36 guns will typically be disbanded so as to keep the inventory healthy. This will include a number of different type of support artillery units.
The second choice for tube artillery is the M-30 122mm Medium Howitzer. Starting in January 1942, you can build up to 20 brigades of 84 guns each. Production of these guns is good and although the standard rifle division uses the same field piece, there are almost always enough to go around.
Non-assault fronts will normally get a share of corps artillery regiments and howitzer regiments. The 152mm M-10 howitzer for these regiments is not in production, so their numbers will eventually dwindle. Still with 24 guns per regiment it is an adequate unit.
The lighter 76mm types I stay away from. Let the divisions have those guns.
Generally there will be no builds of Katyusha light rocket regiments. The truck commitment is too high. Later in the war, the guards heavy rocket brigades or 1943 Rocket Divisions with the M-30-4 are built because they require very few trucks, with the rockets fired from their crates on the ground.
Mortar units also see few builds unless there is a significant excess of 120mm tubes. Otherwise they are needed by the many rifle divisions and corps.
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