Do artillery kills count as kills toward your stats?

[exhilator]

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[Cole-Train]

Re: Do artillery kills count as kills toward your stats?

unfortunatly, no

they just soften up the enemy so your troops can get team points, which is where your points come from

[N2K]

Re: Do artillery kills count as kills toward your stats?

They are added to you kills towards the kit being used but not to total points

[exhilator]

Re: Do artillery kills count as kills toward your stats?

They are added to you kills towards the kit being used but not to total points

So they improve your KDR, right?

[RocketChild]

Re: Do artillery kills count as kills toward your stats?

They are added to you kills towards the kit being used but not to total points

At least they do that. I try not to use Arty when commander, but sometimes, using it will mean the difference between winning a round and losing by 2 tickets.

[Alcorr]

Re: Do artillery kills count as kills toward your stats?

So they improve your KDR, right?

HAHAHA no....they don't if they did you would see commanders with like 10:1 k/d ratio all the time, the top commanders I mean...

[Rexophane]

Re: Do artillery kills count as kills toward your stats?

HAHAHA no....they don't if they did you would see commanders with like 10:1 k/d ratio all the time, the top commanders I mean...

Actually, I'm not so sure you're right.

[Cole-Train]

Re: Do artillery kills count as kills toward your stats?

i didnt think they counted towards kills, as no kills show up on the score screen when the round ends, unless you went out and shot everyone yourself

[N2K]

Re: Do artillery kills count as kills toward your stats?

They dont get counted towards points, but they are added to kit

As you can see some top commanders have low kills and low tm but have high scores and thier total kills arent matching up to thier combat score.

[parish]

Re: Do artillery kills count as kills toward your stats?

If you look at your global stats, the arty kills count as kills. Check your kills before a round and then play for a bit and check them again. The kills you got during command get added to your total kill numbers.

Kills while being commander from arty do count. As an example, if you wish to get your ground defense badge, be commander, hop in a tow off in some solitary place and drop some arty. The kills count as Ground Defense kills and if you stay in it for the time required, you get the badge.

In the older days, you could drop arty, switch to the weapon of your choice and get kills that were counted for that weapon. That is why many people had expert explosives fast. Command+arty+holding C4= explosives badge.

[RangerXML]

Re: Do artillery kills count as kills toward your stats?

Nope, I tried the above thing along time ago, I think this was one of the first things patched in this game, but they do coun't toward your Kit Badges.

[Rexophane]

Re: Do artillery kills count as kills toward your stats?

Maybe the topic starter should try for himself.

[parish]

Re: Do artillery kills count as kills toward your stats?

Nope, I tried the above thing along time ago, I think this was one of the first things patched in this game, but they do coun't toward your Kit Badges.

Well, you're right and wrong. Yes, they did patch the kit bug while commanding a long time ago, but not the Ground Defense & Air Defense both of which still work.

So to clarify, before the patches you could hold out ANY weapon and get kills with it by dropping arty.

Now, you can still get kills towards Ground Defense and Air Defense if you're sitting in a TOW or a AA while dropping arty. This one worked as of last night, so unless they released a patch this morning, I am correct on this one.

[govedob]

Re: Do artillery kills count as kills toward your stats?

Counts towards your global kills, and towards the awards that are number of kills related in a round, but it will not show the arty kills in your score for the round screen.

[Zefram]

Re: Do artillery kills count as kills toward your stats?

yes... arty will improve your KDR....