Artillery ROFs question

Marcello · #1 November 14th, 2005, 07:37 AM

It is my understanding that unlike for direct fire guns,where things like experience and such are more important, there is a much stronger correlation in the game between ROF and indirect rate of fire.If this is true can I ask what are the criteria for translating real life ROFs into game values?
Is the number of rounds that can be practically fired in a minute (as opposed to burst fire or theoretical maximum rates of fire) in sustained fire mode? Are there others factors?

JaM · #2 November 18th, 2005, 11:46 AM

It is hard to say. I have reworked my OObs and i used for all known arty systems their ROF for 2 minutes (first minute maximum rate of fire, second sustained rate of fire) as one turn in game manual is more than one minute. With this M109 has r.o.f 5. I prefer more rounds on target instead of more possible salvos...

p.s. my 200 post.... lets celebrate!

Beeg · #3 November 18th, 2005, 12:21 PM

Congratulations, Sergeant!

Beeg

pdoktar · #4 November 18th, 2005, 02:25 PM

If I remember correctly, changing RoF figures for artillery pieces and then running them through the cost calculator, doesn�t affect their cost.

So when I tried to make PzH2000 a bit more realistic (my opinion

) and RoF to 8, I got myself almoust double the firepower at the same price. I have no idea how to value this increase. (So I added roughly 50% to the cost).

More rounds in a target per minute is SO much better than the number of salvos. Especially true in real life.

Any ideas?

JaM · #5 November 19th, 2005, 07:36 AM

Thank Beeg.

I have ROF 10 for PzH2000, 8 for GTC,2S19,M109A6 Paladin,7 for AS90, ShKH Zuzana

thatguy96 · #6 November 20th, 2005, 01:40 AM

Are these values at all realisitic? It sounds like there's some slight inflation to these values. For instance, an M109A6 can punch out 4 rounds a minute, but only for three minutes. However, the sustained rate for 60 minutes is only 1 round per minute. Sustained fire is what I would see as the default here since there isn't any real way to get artillery units to do this bombardment/quick shoot and then be inactive for a certain amount of time while the gun was allowed to cool down and return to a safe level of operation. If we assume that the average turn is somewhere between 5-8 minutes wouldn't it be safe to assume these values should generally be under 10 if not considerably under 10?