Special Heavy Artillery

Katyusha and Elephant are both great. Karl is a scouting heavy artillery

A - Katyusha - Best Arty, and, as stoic has said, combines long range (3.5-ish) with the potential for mass attacks ( capable of having three hits), it fulfills artillery's purpose in life, and I a sure there are many Katyusha rockets in artillery heaven. Best perk in game.

A-minus - Elefant - Between this and the Katyusha, Bombs. Put Leeb on this and Govorov on the other, and you have a butt-ton of damage. Combines the best things of Heavy artillery and tanks, and has a decent defense stat. Awesone stats and Perks.

B - Mortar Karl - Amazing scout with around the same Range as the Katyusha, it is painfully slow. If it was faster and it's second perk was changed, it would be better than rocket boy though. As is, amazing, great damage, wonderful availability.

C - M12- GMC - Good all-rounder, Has decent Perks, has decent stats. I give it a "big thumbs up" ( if you don't understand this, I pity your childhood)



D - Maresal - Great Arty Killer, but not much good at most other things, still capable though. Reminds me of the firebat from *shudder* GOG2.

Gerd von Rundstedt, I agree with you on all accounts.

You're probably thinking of the Firebat from EW6:1914, rather than the GOG2 Firebats/Flamethrowers.

The Katyusha's splash dmg and the Elefant's high chance to strike again takes first place.

When used defensively, the Karl is a highly valuable asset that puts it in 2nd place. Its slow movement and the tricky 1st ability makes it useless in offensive operations unless you are besieging a stationary target.

The M12 is a good choice with its two abilities. Sadly, splash dmg and high chances for repeated attacks outweigh them.

The Maresal has a more rare use because of its first ability. My least preferred choice no matter what, unless I'm surrounded by mountains.

I have shared feelings on my favorite, between Katyusha and Elefant.

I'd had some trouble having to decide which to put my top tier gen in. Luckily though, they belong to different factions, so it makes it very easy. My top art gen will go on heavy infantry and I'll give him Katyusha if on Allies (Govorov) and Elefant if on Axis (Leeb).

The extra damage on armored (with tanks and specially heavy tanks that should be the main artillery focus) plus the chance to reset makes the Elefant very good choice. However it has a flaw which is it lacks the extra point on sight range most of the other give, this meaning that it has to rely on some other troop vision for it to fully utilize their max range.

Katyusha on the other hand goes very well when near a KV-6, as its aoe hit will allow KV-6 greater reseting chance. It has the highest speed, has that extra vision point and its only flaw is that it only has a single skill (unless you consider "higher chance of creating the attacked tile to burn one)

The last on in the podium is the Karl, while the slowest, it has the highest possible attack range, sight range and base damage. Not very good on mountainous, snowy or river maps as it may struggle to catch up (as heavy art is also the slowest troop) but it excels in defense scenarios and missions that do not allow you to advance fast as there's lot of enemies. Anti-air is a meh bonus, low value (30%) and only for himself. I wish it had higher value or that it covered an extra tile around him.

You're only going to max Katyusha because its so much better than the GMC.

Please max Elefant. Its incredible. Don't be like me. I did Karl first. Huge Mistake. Karl is incredible for United Front though so I guess there is that.

Elefant is like a machine gun though.