Howitzers

Artillery could be well-directed onto fixed weapons and emplacements where the high-explosive rounds could deliver unbelievable carnage. Artillery fire is a science, and both accuracy and time on target—multiple artillery rounds from multiple guns all arriving at one time—could be achieved. Enemies were smashed by massive weight of fire before they could retreat or get under cover.

When choosing a location for a Howitzer, consider how you might make it as difficult as possible for your opponent to send an enemy unit to attack it. One technique is to construct your base buildings close to one another, and to build a Howitzer within these buildings, thereby reducing the lines of fire.

Construct your Howitzer within the radius of one of your base MG emplacements if you’re concerned about infantry running in to destroy it.

The number one killer on the battlefield? Field artillery. Guns—generally based on size—would be allocated and commanded at the regiment, battalion, division, corps, or even army level. The goal of the field artillery was to deliver large volumes of lethal fire against the enemy, a job that both the ML-20 and the FH-18 excelled at.