v • e Artillery Installations Tech 2 Artillery Installation                 Tech 3 Heavy Artillery Installation                 Game Ending Artillery Installation

UEF Cybran Aeon Seraphim UEF T2 Artillery Installation: Klink Hammer f • s • e   Stationary artillery. Designed to engage slow-moving units and fixed structures. Build Costs -18000 -2520 1800 Max Health 3600 Veterancy 15 ( +2/s) Intel (Radius) Vision: 28 Weapon: APDS Artillery Artillery - Projectile DPS 100 Projectile  Damage Damage radius Energy Required 2000 3 -1000 (-100/s) Reload time 20 seconds Range (min - max) 5 - 128 Cybran T2 Artillery Installation: Gunther f • s • e   Heavy artillery. Designed to engage slow-moving units and fixed structures. Build Costs -16000 -2240 1600 Max Health 3150 Veterancy 15 ( +2/s) Intel (Radius) Vision: 28 Weapon: Resonance Artillery Artillery - Projectile DPS 88 Projectile  Damage Damage radius Energy Required 1750 4 -1150 (-115/s) Reload time 20 seconds Range (min - max) 5 - 128 Aeon T2 Artillery Installation: Miasma f • s • e   Mid-level artillery. Designed to engage slow-moving units and fixed structures. Build Costs -19800 -2772 1980 Max Health 2200 Veterancy 15 ( +2/s) Intel (Radius) Vision: 28 Weapon: Miasma Artillery Artillery - Projectile DPS 144 Projectile  Damage Damage radius Energy Required 2875  (1s DoT) 2 -1450 (-145/s) Reload time 20 seconds Range (min - max) 5 - 128 Seraphim T2 Artillery Installation: Zthuthaam f • s • e   Stationary, rapid-fire artillery. Provides decent impact damage across a small area. Build Costs -19000 -2660 1900 Max Health 2850 Veterancy 15 ( +2/s) Intel (Radius) Vision: 28 Weapon: Zthuthaam Artillery Cannon Artillery - Projectile DPS 120 Projectile  Damage Damage radius Energy Required 2400 3 -1300 (-130/s) Reload time 20 seconds Range (min - max) 5 - 128

The Tech 2 Artillery Installations are long range bombardment structures. At an average cost of 2500 mass, they are quite expensive, and should be built sparingly.

Use Edit

Tech 2 artillery installations fire powerful, low-arc shells over large distances. This allows them to bombard an opponent's fortified base or engage enemy surface units (land or sea) at very long range. All T2 artillery fire at a medium-slow rate (once every 20 seconds), deal high damage over a moderate area (average of 2,250 damage per shot), and can only be stopped by shields.

Compared to Point DefenseEdit

Although these structures can be used as base defenses, tech 2 point defenses are usually better suited for the job: At a much lower cost, they have equivalent DPS, better fire rates, and much less overkill.

They can also be used as an effective means of defending coasts and channels from enemy shipping, a very effective method since it can outrange most enemy ships and those it can't, T2 tactical missles can match or exceed.

However, T2 artillery units have superior range to any point defense weapons, in addition to a very short minimum range. They also outrange T3 mobile artillery. As such, they can act as effective counter-artillery units that can also weaken an approaching group of enemy ground units.

At a cost of around 2,500 mass, these units should only be built when they are absolutely needed. Not only are they expensive, they also take a very long time to build. One could build about 20 tech 2 direct fire land units for the same price.

Compared to Tactical Missile LaunchersEdit

Both Tech 2 Artillery installations and Tech 2 Tactical Missile Launchers may be used to bombard an enemy base from afar.

TMLs are generally favored because they have twice the range, cost about 1/3 the price, have much higher accuracy vs. stationary targets, and they have a much higher alpha-strike (i.e., higher initial-shot damage). These differences make the TML more useful for surprise attacks on critical enemy structures, or even an enemy ACU.

However, artillery shells cost no mass and less energy (average of 1,225 energy/shot), and they are not affected by TMD, which can completely nullify a TML attack. Moreover, T2 artillery installations will - like most units in the game - automatically 'lead' their shots to hit moving targets. This gives them a distinct advantage over TMLs, which must be manually aimed and fired. This makes Artillery overall more effective if you need constant shots or shore defense, but not as good against single, stationary targets

Adjacency Edit

Artillery installations get bonuses from adjacent power generators. This lowers their power consumptions, and increases their fire rate. However, their energy consumptions are already low enough not to require this, and the fire rate increase is so little it makes the operation moot. Building generators around a tech 2 artillery installation for the adjacency bonuses is a waste of resources.

Note: A T1 power generator costs ~3.5% of a T2 artillery. A T2 artillery fires 2.5% faster for each T1 power generator it is adjacent to for a maximum total of 10%. If one T1 power generator can provide a bonus to two T2 artillery installations, it improves overall firepower by 5% of a T2 artillery but only costs ~3.5% of a T2 artillery (it also provides 20 power). Therefore, if you plan on building at least two artillery pieces, maximum firepower/cost is achieved by mixing them with T1 power generators. Such micro-management might not be worth your time, however.

If you have to build power generators, you might even be better off having no bonus than surrounding the artillery piece. Keep in mind that artillery are units of very high importance from the opponent's point of view. This will draw fire to your generators. Further more, if any generator is destroyed, the ensuing explosion could damage your expensive artillery.

Factional differences Edit

The four tech 2 artillery installations are the UEF Klink Hammer, the Cybran Gunther, the Aeon Miasma and the Seraphim Zthuthaam. They have slightly different costs and damages, but overall, have an equivalent cost/effectiveness ratio. They all have the same fire radius.

While the UEF Klink Hammer has average accuracy, damage radius and damage, the Cybran Gunther and Aeon Miasma represent real well their faction's weapon's philosophy:

• The Cybran Gunther has awful accuracy, but makes up for it with a massive damage radius. Its damage is low, but it can damage multiple targets simultaneously. It excels at firing at approaching armies, or just wreaking indiscriminate havoc in an opponent's base. It is absolutely incapable of destroying a specific target effectively. The Gunther is also considerably cheaper than the other T2 artillery pieces.
• The Aeon Miasma has almost perfect accuracy, but almost no damage radius. It features damage over time, making it effective against shields and buildings, but less so against mobile units. The Miasma is perfect at destroying selected targets of high importance, like other artillery pieces. It is also the most expensive of the T2 artillery pieces, although not by a large amount.

All things considered, the Seraphim Zthuthaam might be the best T2 artillery out of the four. It is as accurate as the Aeon Miasma, has a high damage radius, and packs quite a punch in terms of damage. It is, however, more expensive to build and maintain than the UEF and Cybran artillery installations, and does not have the advantage in terms of HP.

Notes Edit

It is possible for an artillery installation to hit a moving aircraft. The Aeon Miasma is the only T2 artillery installation that can destroy itself in one shot.

UEF Klink Hammer

A Cybran "Gunther" artillery piece fires at a distant target

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