Artillery question

[ohwell26]

I was wondering... what happens when you blow up the artillery, but not all of it? Like, there are 3 guns and you can only blow up 2 and damage one with your 5 C4 packs. What is the effect of that on the enemy commander?

Related to that, what if you only damage but not destroy radar/UAV trailer?

[sniperripper]

My guess is that it will reload very slowly if its damaged..but I'm not sure..

[imported_Underpant]

I think it reloads at the normal speed, it's just 1/3 the barrage. I've also blown arty in mid-barrage, and it only sent 1 or 2 bombs out.

[GatorDawg]

I'm pretty sure that damaging has no effect on UAV, scan, or arty. They are either working, or they're not. The only way to affect them at all is to completely destroy them. Damaging, may slow the reload times, but I don't *think* it does. I could be wrong though.

However, completely destroying some, but not all of the artillery emplacements does have an effect. If the enemy has three emplacements and you only manage to take out one or two it will degrade the intensity of the arty strike proportionately. Have you ever been capping a flag lets say, and arty starts coming in and blasts are going off everywhere and the whole strike lasts for a good 15 or 20 seconds? Then, on another occasion, you're capping a flag and arty starts coming in and the blasts are kind of few and far between and the whole strike is over in just a few seconds? That's because the enemy has had some, but not all of their arty emplacements taken out.

[ohwell26]

Makes sense... thanks.