Originally Posted by BigGaayAl

I have to say I do not like the new arty system at all. Sure it's fun to try at the start, and I laughed when I got a first kill. Now all it seems to be for it spamming a base that no one is attacking. Seems utterly useless to me and does really nothing to promote teamplay and fun (except for the person harvesting kills). I say axe it as in tacmod.

Personally I think this promotes some tactical realism and gameplay. I think static defenses on a CP in that CP is a bygone tactic in modern combat. The defenders should be spreading out to the perimeter and establishing ambushes along likely routes of attack. Especially as this is the only chance of effectiveness the AT kits have against aromor by taking rear shots. And even then maneuver doctrine would have them advancing still if those ambushes don't get any business.

The common tactic of setting up camp on the CP for a long time often unattacked is a terrible waste of finite resources. From a military history standpoint such static defenses unwilling to advance to meet the enemy and then form a defense in depth fell out of fashion at the end of WWI and certainly after Blitzkreig tactics put the final nails in their coffin in WWII.

If arty bombarding a CP long before any reasonable assualt could be made forces our defenders to modernize their tactical mindset into the 21st century I see that as a good thing.

The spawnkilling effect that doesn't let them leave their spawns at all is a problem(which I have rarely seen as gunners often cease fire unnecessarily between arty spots or just move on to juicier targets). For that I wish the MBT's had a targetting radar that calculated the trajectory of incoming projectiles and thus was able to calculate where on the map they were coming from and accurately return fire over the horizon. This technology has been in existence at least since Vietnam and it is the counter modern units have I think. Be cool as a secondary tracking radar firemode for the gunner #2 position in tanks similar to the toggle radar in the AA units. If you poiint the search radar in vaguely the right direction, and an arty round or even perhaps a tank round enters your view, then perhaps a hud icon could appear showing you precisely when the main gun should point to hit the location those projectiles were fired from.