The next patch balance changes

[RTKDinadan]

The changes will make round shot an effective so no, not all effective ammo will be 350. Changing howitzer range to 350 means that foot or horse artillery can bombard the howitzers before they get into range. Costs will reflect the ability of the units in battles.

That's an interesting tactical change, however, it also cuts the distance infantry and cavalry has to cover to close in with the artillery pieces, making them even more vulnerable. Have you considered simply increasing round shot range instead of reducing other ranges? Or sharing that 50 difference between them, making the ranges 425 and 375?

[Jack Lusted]

That's an interesting tactical change, however, it also cuts the distance infantry and cavalry has to cover to close in with the artillery pieces, making them even more vulnerable. Have you considered simply increasing round shot range instead of reducing other ranges? Or sharing that 50 difference between them, making the ranges 425 and 375?

Problem with increasing range is that you then encounter the problem of foot and horse artillery being able to fire on opposing player in 1v1 maps especially as soon as deployment has ended hence why I do not really want to do that.

[Tomisama]

Originally Posted by Jack Lusted
The changes will make round shot an effective so no, not all effective ammo will be 350. Changing howitzer range to 350 means that foot or horse artillery can bombard the howitzers before they get into range. Costs will reflect the ability of the units in battles.

I am all in favor of limiting the howitzer. To me they should be more like mobile mortars, basically formation busters, not field guns. As they are now they discourage the use of other artillery.

It’s just not worth bringing cannon for the hand full of shots you might get before the howis take them out.

A howitzer is a type of artillery piece that is characterized by a relatively short barrel and the use of comparatively small explosive charges to propel projectiles at relatively high trajectories, with a steep angle of descent. In the taxonomies of artillery pieces used by European (and European-style) armies in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, the howitzer stood between the "gun" (which was characterized by a longer barrel, larger propelling charges, smaller shells, higher velocities and flatter trajectories) and the "mortar" (which has the ability to fire projectiles at even higher angles of ascent and descent).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howitzer