artilery

[grandad]

what advantage do you get from artilery. in the fog r rules as far as i can see you dont get any + (or extra dice) for shooting at close range

[ravenflight]

what advantage do you get from artilery. in the fog r rules as far as i can see you dont get any + (or extra dice) for shooting at close range

I agree it seems odd that they get no advantage at close range, but that's the way the rules are written so I have to suck it up.

Artillery get the advantage of incredible range. I don't think I've played a game where arty DIDN'T fire on the first bound. They also give -ve modifiers to cohesion tests.

They are, in my opinion, quite worth the points.

[timmy1]

The thinking is that the historical use of artillery in this period did not include widespread use of short range anti-personal rounds such as grape and canister therefore when firing at a formed body of troops range does not make enough difference to be worth a PoA change at any point.

[grandad]

don't get me wrong i think the fogr rules far better than say the WRG rule for this period that i used 20 odd years ago but i seamed to remember you used to get a bonus for artillery used at close range

[quackstheking]

Just goes to show how poor and unhistoric the WRG rules were (and I loved them at the time) - grapeshot in the 1600's? I don't think so!!!!

Don

[gibby]

Artillery is powerful enough and needs no short range bonus. Jim

[Sarmaticus]

Just goes to show how poor and unhistoric the WRG rules were (and I loved them at the time) - grapeshot in the 1600's? I don't think so!!!!

Don

It was used by Swedish 3pdrs in the 1630s - but they're RGs so the argument re the rules for bases of Artillery (rather than markers) still applies.