What ordonnance for what situation?

[Fisherking]

Don’t waist money on Mortars anymore.

They have great difficulty hitting the battlefield. They need a target a bit larger than a fort!

What a load of dung that is!

[Prussian to the Iron]

lusted said they are increasing the accuracy, but im sure it wont be satisfactory. i liked it fine in 1.2.


btw: if you are using the Additional Units Add-on Mod (TWC), then you can mod the 8-inch european mortars to be as accurate as you want, without those pesky updates screwing it up.

[Slaists]

Don’t waist money on Mortars anymore.

They have great difficulty hitting the battlefield. They need a target a bit larger than a fort!

What a load of dung that is!

As I said somewhere else, the mortar/howitzer accuracy changes drastically (for the better) as one increases the unit size they play with. With ultra size units howitzers become quite deadly. Once that field is swarming with soldiers, the howitzer shot is likely to hit SOMEONE even if that someone is not the original target. On smaller unit sizes though, there is "too much empty space" and the efficiency of indirect guns goes down quite a bit. I do not play on ultra size btw, so I rarely use indirect guns.

On a different note, howitzers and mortars are quite useful despite their low accuracy (which is historically accurate, btw). I use them to 'squeeze' AI's flanks (by bombarding ground on the flanks) so the AI bunches up their troops in the middle where my direct guns can have a ball...

[Prussian to the Iron]

that is not true. i always play on highest unit sizes, and i still have trouble hitting anything but the ground behind them.

[Slaists]

that is not true. i always play on highest unit sizes, and i still have trouble hitting anything but the ground behind them.

Well, then try playing on a smaller unit size. I bet, it won't be ground 'behind them', but ground 'off the field' ;)

By the way, how do you do the targeting bit? You realize, you should never try to target units with artillery? Rather target the ground where you anticipate the unit to be. Or, the ground right in front of a unit if it's still.

[Prussian to the Iron]

tried that. didnt work.

[Slaists]

tried that. didnt work.

What do you mean, 'it didn't work'? You mean, you could hit MORE men when playing on smaller size?

[Prussian to the Iron]

no, i mean i tried manually selecting shots, but often they wont even shoot at it, and when they do, it misses.