Quote Originally Posted by Servius1234 View Post
Cannons suck in ETW. The volume of fire they can produce, and their accuracy, are both too poor to be worth their stack slot. In some very rare situations they can be effective, like guarding a sole breach in a fort wall through which the AI will funnel all their troops. But in the open they're pretty useless. I never us them. A unit of Line Infantry will always kill more than a unit of artillery (unless you get very lucky).
Two words: Canister shot.

I have written a haiku to show you how much I enjoy artillery during land battles:

I love canister,
It murders infantry guys.
Routed, shattered, dead.