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what is indirect fire
>>2468445Indirect fire respects the 45 degree shadow law.
>>2468453no.
Are you seriously going to keep posting these threads and respond to every same refutal in exactly the same way, again?
>>2468489yes, op is mentally ill. He also spams his image on /v/
>>2468460Not a possible trajectory. Trajectories that rely on air drag are also ineffecient and lose an immense amount of range.
>>2468377wbc humor
>>2468635>Not a possible trajectory.Meanwhile in reality...
>>2468635>Trajectories that rely on air drag are also ineffecient and lose an immense amount of range.yeah but you can hit things behind steeper inclines
>>2468377
>>2468635bro forgot air resistance...
>>2470044>>2471522You will not, because enemy artillery that are not being hindered by air will shoot you down.
>>2468635GPS guided shells already exist, and they definitely exist in the 25th century if we've made it to the point where we're mining weird blue crystals on strange planets.
>>2471802They will die to traditional artillery.
>>2471808what?
>>2471818The fancy artillery has less range than artillery that flies in the optimal arc.
>>2471819Okay, but if the basic bitch artillery is hiding behind a wall like in OP's pic, then in this scenario, the fancy artillery has the longer range because it can hit its target first.
>>2471820Wrong. Think in more dimensions. There are artillery near the wall, but not necessarily hiding behind. The traditional artillery will outrange and win because the projectile was designed for maximising range instead of altering trajectory.
>>2468460This rapes the TA-fag
>>2471823>Wrong. Think in more dimensions.You think in more dimensions, faggot. Both artilleries are now mobile. The fancy one can adjust its projectile's flight path in real-time while the basic one can't. So the fancy one wins by default because it dodges all shells.Also, this example is retarded. In real life, a GPS- guided shell can shoot 50km. This range might one day double to 100 km. Having the ability to precisely guide your shell so that it directly hits the target instead of landing 50 meters away is more important than shooting 10% farther. All of this also assumes you are somehow able to see your target at such extreme distances.
>>2471826Did you read the third sentence? The target isn't necessarily an artillery piece. There are other artillery pieces nearby as counter artillery. The artillery piece needs to be near the target to perform the shot. Guided shells have lower range due to a tradeoff in efficiency for trajectory alteration. Traditional artillery has longer range with heavy shells that make air resistance negligible. In Total Annihilation, the smart artillery can't live when there is heavy saturation of traditional artillery outranging them. Smart shells aren't magic, by the way. They do need to get a lot closer than their max range for vertical strikes because they need the fuel and energy to alter it. Even smart artillery obeys the 45 degree shadow law.
>>2471833>There are other artillery pieces nearby as counter artillery.if we're just introducing other bullshit into the scenario then i introduce a nuclear missile on to my side and i nuke all of your artillery. gg no re>In Total Annihilationsorry, I don't play your tower defense game. I have no idea what you're talking about
>>2471835What do you think the purpose of this discussion is? Or the purpose of the OP pic?
>>2471839... trolling autists?
>>2471819>rangeModern artillery's main deciding factor in an artillery duel is the ability to unleash hell and be already rolling away before the first shell land, due to counter-artillery trajectories being automated nowadays.Raw range help, but way less than fire rate and general "move, move, move" capacity right after a shot.
>>2471825TA has missiles, doesn't it? so the whole thing about cannons is an irrelevant time waster. why use cannon when missile do the job better?
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>>2470044russianairdefence.gif
>>2468377Didn't the big long range cannons in TA adjust their firing angle depending on how far their target was?
