Long Range Base Shots On Tuchola, Are they OK? Options

[elroy]

Wondering policy on Long Range base shots on Tuchola Forest Server. Have been noticing it a lot lately and was hoping for clarification.

thanks!

[ScrapyardBob]

Just to clarify - the map was designed to make long range "pak" shots impossible. If you know how to hit a base with a pak from across the map, it's something I want to know.

We did tweak things a bit to make long-range tank shelling difficult (but not impossible). For instance, a defender in the tank scrape at G3 can shell across the map and hit R1. Which is why that one 3-sided shelter building was added on the west side of R1. But the long-range tank shots require a bit more finesse and are impossible to prevent without drastic map changes.

Another example is the design of the terrain around G1, where G1 is in a valley. Or the shift in vehicles in front of R2. Or some terrain changes inside of treelines (that aren't visible, but block shells).

It was a mildly contentious issue during alpha testing. There are some big fans of long-range pak shelling (I did a lot of it myself on Barbarossa). But after watching the pak gunners on Barb make it nigh impossible for germans to defend G3, I decided that fixed guns needed to be prevented from hitting bases on Tuchola. It was simply too easy and too overpowering. As a compromise, I didn't completely eliminate the ability to long-range shell with a tank.

What I think (if I remember vaguely) was that you had to at least MOVE a tank out of the starting position in order to get into a firing solution. That introduces errors into the equation and makes it less of a sure thing. So if you know of a tank on Tuchola that can shell a base without leaving its starting position, then that's something I'd want to address. One issue with Barbarossa is that a lot of the tanks could be used as long-distance artillery without moving the tank from the start point.