Artillery in Assault

[saracv3]

Units with out a direct fire value have a strength 1 in assault combat, rule 12.42 Minimum Strength. I have doubts as to how effective large caliber weapons would be in assault combat. Sure if you could land a 155mm shell 40 yards in front of the gun, it would be devastating on an attacking squad, but that is a very big if assuming it is even possible. French and Italian 65mm guns and Japanese 75mm howitzers may be exceptions which were caught by the bombardment-DF crossover. Generally, I don't think most artillery could track close target very effectively.

A la 19th century cannon canister meets 20th century artillery. Thanks for refreshing my memory. I’ve had mortars in assault combat. Two German 81s mortars devastated a three unit Greek infantry company. They did get pushed up two columns to the 9 column.