How do I increase arty effectiveness against armor?

[Companion]

Inspired by this tanknet thread:
http://63.99.108.76/forums/index.php?showtopic=25994


How do I increase arty effectiveness against armor while maintaining other balances such as arty vs inf or inf vs armor?

[Mobhack]

Originally Posted by Companion

Inspired by this tanknet thread:
http://63.99.108.76/forums/index.php?showtopic=25994


How do I increase arty effectiveness against armor while maintaining other balances such as arty vs inf or inf vs armor?

You cannot do that. The artillery effect preference will affect all troop types in equal proportion.

You could, if you so desired, edit all the OBs with Mobhack and add some more HE pen to suit your taste to each and every weapon.

Cheers
Andy

[Marcello]

First of all before messing with such established numbers I suggest you set up a pretty comprehensive test program. By which I mean setting up specialized scenarios where tank clusters are bombarded with artillery, the results noted and the tests repeated several times. That is the sort of stuff I did to to investigate some issues in the past, which uncovered some oddities.
Then you can tinker a bit with the HE penetration values and see what you get.

[Sniper23]

Originally Posted by Mobhack

You cannot do that. The artillery effect preference will affect all troop types in equal proportion.

You could, if you so desired, edit all the OBs with Mobhack and add some more HE pen to suit your taste to each and every weapon.

Cheers
Andy

is there anyway you could make a preference option to incress atty effect on armor only?

[iCaMpWiThAWP]

Originally Posted by Sniper23

is there anyway you could make a preference option to incress atty effect on armor only?

I think this would mean hundreds of lines of coding, how about raising the HE penetration values? ALL armor would be affected, and infantry not that much, i think, but this would mean having to edit all arty oobs or there is a "master HE penetration factor"?

[Marek_Tucan]

Originally Posted by Sniper23

is there anyway you could make a preference option to incress atty effect on armor only?

Raise both Arty effectiveness and Inf toughness?

[Companion]

Originally Posted by Marek_Tucan

Raise both Arty effectiveness and Inf toughness?

Then inf vs armor balance would also be tipped off

[PanzerBob]

One must not forget suppression is the name of the game with artillery. A tank commander and crew who have just have several batteries of 152mm drop in on them can end up as non-effective as a kill would have made them. They don't call it Steel Rain for nothing!!

More is never bad!

Bob out

[Marek_Tucan]

Originally Posted by Companion

Then inf vs armor balance would also be tipped off

Not too much IMO, as the main weapon for dealing with infantry is suppression

[Sniper23]

Originally Posted by Marek_Tucan

Raise both Arty effectiveness and Inf toughness?

good idea but raising the inf toughness would effect how much damage other weapon's do to infantry as well,which is not what i want