British vs US Artillery?

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    • #7556
      Aydin
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      What would you consider the pros and cons to either?

      If I’m playjng a support role for a US armor doctrine player, which would you use?

      At first glance, the UK are more well rounded since the 17pdr can stop an IS2/KT whereas US artillery is limited to their 1 Pak 43 call in?

    • #7558
      123nick
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      british artillery gets its own fireflies, but weaker actual artillery (the biggest you have is the 4.5inch uncle battery IIRC, US gets 240mm black dragon), and their artillery doesn’t scale as well (for 50 munitions you can only ever fire 1 25pdr batter., for US you can get 2 priests which both fire for 1 cost of 55 munitions). the US got some neat defensive structures, although i wish the 57mm emplacement had 2x AT guns in it so it would be more useful. US artillery is getting the Sherman Crocodile which will be very good, and has the really good (early on) US field engineer call in, with flamethrower, thompsons, and bazooka, and medic too, although the british artillery doc can field more general purpose experienced infantry.

      overall, id go with brit artillery just in general, honestly. US artillery might need a buff. british artillery have the highly effective early game stuart call in, not to mention cheap flamethrowers for your standard infantry, wolverines for standard AT, and fireflies later on at a fairly cheap call in price, where as US artillery only has the 291 field engineers early on, and you can get wolverines for some artillery and AT but they need a upgrade too fire the artillery, and they need vet 1 before they can become the jackson, which loses its barrage ability, and the pak 43 can no longer fire barrages either now.  plus, US artillery only gets the munition dispatch, not the ammo dump british artillery has.

      i think if the US artillery has the cooldown of the 155mm and 240mm split, pak-43 HE barrage reinstated, and maybe allow the jacksons to fire HE barrage, then it would be a bit better overall, and if the 291st field engineers had their unit cap increased too 2, then that would allow them to have more capable field units.

    • #7564
      Aydin
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      Thanks! Looks like I will go with the British then.

      A big problem for us (when we play Axis or Allies vs Soviets) is taking on an IS2 or IS152 late game.

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