A possible solution for a sector arty issue.

So, sector arty is a very powerful ability, and when its hits, your enemy has to immediately vacate the area, but that raises the issue of units that cant: namely British and German dug in arty and defenses. I mean, Yeah, you could say “wait until the other team picks their docs”, but digging in and getting a defense line in place requires an early pick to make sure that the cost and speed are reasonable. So I’ve come up with some solutions that I think, could work for both allies and axis, and I’ve attempted to historically justify them (a bit):

1.) Have a unit with an ability called “misinformation campaign” (works both for allies and axis, I think). They deploy in a sector and start climbing on the enemies radio broadcasts, and “redirect” the coordinates for mass artillery barrages. This unit will have a build limit of one, and could be a call in with a cool-down with predictably catastrophic result if it were to ever die. This would block sector arty, and any other such ability that would render dug in fortifications useless. (though I cant think of any others atm.)

Historically, the Africa korps was known to enter brit radio with their perfect accents, and cause havoc for allied command, and in Normandy, GI’s asked everybody about baseball for reason! I believe on the allied end SOE and OSS did similar actions for the allies, maybe not on radio, but with diversions with planted documents, etc. Then there is also how the allies managed to make “pattons inflatable army”, and you could say that German high command allocated valuable resources to fronts where there was no enemy (pas de calais).

2.) Give an ability to certain defensive structures that, when cast, makes the crew dive into dugouts, while being able to survive sector arty, and other barrages with minimal damages to the guns. So this would activate, and the structure in question would take greatly reduced damage from explosions, but at the same time, not be able to fire their guns, so there is a trade-off. You could give at a duration of how long it last, so if someone tries to use it when the enemy is pushing, the other player can then easily flank the emplacements while they are inactive, and a long cool-down if they waste it against a weaker barrage, they wont have it for sector arty.

Historically, defensive networks often came with dugout bunkers/shelters to allow crews to survive artillery barrages, which didn’t often hit the guns, but would have murdered the crew with shrapnel otherwise.

on a small side note, I hope that German defensive doctrine, brit fortification doc (if there is one) get the ability to build large minefields, the large ones with the signs that whermacht pioneers currently have. I also would like erde to get such a minefield as well, if that is possible.