give howitzer players a chance...

[Commissar[PT]]

I noticed, when playing infantry, with 5 howitzers in the 6 players map, that its a little frustrating to select 1 by one, via the squad's tooltips, and give it a fire command.

Suggestion
Since the howitzer is like a "super weapon", when we build one, a new set of icons appear in the game interface, like this:

Name / Status

Howitzer 1 Ready
howitzer 2 Reloading
howitzer 3 Being constructed / deployed
howitzer 4 Crew killed
howitzer 5 Firing
howitzer 6 Captured by <player name>

You could do this in the tactical map, since there is A LOT of unused space there. And make the howitzers turn automatically when the firing target is out of the firing angle, or a message saying "out of range" cause now, it just stand there and do nothing...


Another suggestion, is, when being constructed, the crew is visible, and an animation of "preparations" like, setting up the gun, after being towed would be nice. That poped up gun, and engineers working on it, doesn't convince me lol...

What you think?
This could also be used for the german rocket gun...

[FluffyJr2]

becuase the most devastating artillery piece's in the game need to be easier to fire. You can just select and group them with Ctrl+#

[Rafta]

I always TAB them. All Howtizers in a group and then TAB through them for assigning every one a single target.
A message if the artillery can't shoot at the assigned target would be really nice.

[ÜberJumper]

Yes, a message for Howitzers and 88's as well actually, as the 88 seems to accept a fire command then doesn't engage.

[shadowcreaper]

i would like them to shoot when you click the attck button sinse this is quite decieving for the first few games sinse, when you have them selected the mouse stil has "attck" cross over units yet when clicked the art doesnt fire of course, this can be anoying sinse you have to keep clickign the "special" button. i suggest when you select the art the "attck crosshere" doesnt appear when you move it over units when art is selected.

like the topic guy said a "stats" of your art would be most useful.