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[Eckerslyke]

I sort of like one guy's suggestion that I think I read over at GS some time ago - artillery fatigue -when artillery accrues fatigue when firing. But -well... yeah - I don't really discuss engine changes (too many variables) and it usually ends up in some sort of pie in the sky snowball of ideas that are not particularly realistic.

Like having to stop firing for a time to cool the barrels down? It would certainly introduce one more thing for commanders to have to take into account when defending against an assault. Might even affect the tactics used by the attacker.

At present I think they only take fatigue from being fired upon, and this does not appear to affect the firing rate or the effectiveness of their fire. (Unless I am mistaken - I was not able to find any discussion in the handbook about the effect of fatigue of artillery fire in my brief scan.)

I'm fairly inexperienced in battling with these JTS and HPS titles, so I may not be aware of all the features available. But one thing struck me about artillery - they appear never to run out of ammo on a local basis. As long as the side has ammo, then all the guns can fire, it appears. If I'm correct, then how authentic is that?

Ideas along these lines may be pie-in-the-sky, and unrealistic, as you say, but I think that by putting them out there it gives the producers a better idea of what they might want to implement over time. Or even, for battlers who aren't averse to house rules, a way to attain greater realism in the meantime.