Art De La Guerre

[Black Prince]

I am thinking of getting some artillery for a Roman army I am putiing together mainly for a bit of fun what type of artillery works best light or heavy?

[madaxeman]

Probably heavy - light is so short ranged you dont get enough shots before you get hit! 

It does mean you often - but not always - have to adopt a defensive stance too in order to maximise the shooting, but it’s main value is in frightening the enemy away from attacking a certain point in your line for fear of shooting casualties.

Players can spend inordinate amounts of pips trying to redeploy to avoid it, and so your plan often needs to involve pushing forwards aggressively elsewhere so as to catch them off balanced 
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[lionelrus]

Try medium....
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[Black Prince]

Thanks Tim.

Medium artllery is that a new feature in v4

[Hazelbark]

Many armies have Medium in current lists. All the imperial roman armies do. And a scattering of others.

I have found the trick is to make sure that your efforts to use artillery are less than the effort your opponent expends to avoid them.

[Black Prince]

A follow on question to you buy field fortications to put in front of your artillery?

[lionelrus]

[fdunadan]

[Black Prince]

I have never noticed medium artillery before in the lists I have looked at it has been either light or heavy. I am building a Triumvirate Roman army rather than as high tech Imperial dudes the options are light or heavy.

[Hazelbark]