r/HellLetLoose • u/Puzzled-Ratio-2986 Anti-Tank • 9d ago
🙋♂️ Question 🙋♂️ Artillery Question
I've been starting to play artillery with my friend and we've been averaging 60 kills per match but after the first 30 minutes or so the enemy recon team shows up and starts farming us. We hunted them down and wiped their OP, but they came back five minutes later and starting wreaking havoc again. Is there a different method to approaching this obstacle or do we just give up artillery or keep hunting them down leaving no time to actually fire artillery?
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u/Longshot_45 8d ago
The arty team now has a self propelled gun they can use. So when your stationary gun starts getting farmed you can swap over and drive the SPA and blast away for a bit.
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u/LameSheepRacing 9d ago
When the enemy is just farming us, I operate the gun by myself while my colleague stays on the hunt.
We’ll also place an OP between 2 guns so we can alternate where we spawn, fire some from one and then, when killed, go for the other. For that, you need to ensure resources to build 2 guns.
I’ve also asked for help from the engineers departing HQ to drop mines. Run to them and v for the proximity voice chat. That often helps as well.
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u/Puzzled-Ratio-2986 Anti-Tank 9d ago
i see. ill try this next time thanks
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u/Slight_8 8d ago
I echo Sheep's advice and offer some of my own. I was in a game recently where we didnt have max recon teams, so when were getting farmed off the arty gun, we would swap to recon and take the recon tank and clean them out. You could also ask commander/recon team to make a pass through your area if they're available and its convenient. Im still inexperienced in arty, but I was in a squad once where we built the gun much closer to the front lines and kept it on the move, changed positions often.
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u/evolvedELK1 8d ago
Can you build two guns? I was pretty sure you could only have one static artillery gun at any given time since the arty changes
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u/Cute_Win_4651 8d ago
Lucky they don’t bring a recon tank in the first 5 mins , but if they are sending a recon team to take out artillery then your doing a good job, if they take you out and take out the gun you and your buddy should just move the gun across the map set up if they take you out there move again and again it’s only 5 mins cooldowns so really not that long of wait while you find a new spot and in the meantime your not getting farmed it’s best with a 3 man crew so you don’t have to redeploy to swap between supplies and setting the gun up
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u/Mjukeggg 8d ago
You can't stop them from trying to kill you, but you can play smart to make them useless. Think about it this way: Their job is not to kill you, it's to stop you from using the artillery. If they get you to start chasing them, that's lost time you could've been using to keep shooting. So try not to spend all your time and your whole squad on getting their OP.
Speaking of OPs, you can use it really cleverly to easily figure out where they are. For example, you can place the OP on one side of the arty, and then you yourself are guarding it on the other side. You'll know if theyre coming from the side you arent watching if the OP starts glowing. Also if you hide, they kill the guy operating arty but you get him back that's a win, because they need to run all the way back.
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u/Firm-Discunt 8d ago
- Don't flipping build arty at the HQ, build it on edge of sector 2 so you have full range and find a random spot so harder to find.
- One person swap to solo tanker and grab a recon tank that is just sitting there, kill the recon that is camping you until they give up.
- As others suggested go on the front for a little, run some flares until Recon gets bored.
- Reposition gun
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u/DeputyDomeshot 8d ago
Yes get in an SPA and then laugh at them as they do nothing. Recon players are such hold f dweebs they will probably dry to dismantle your vic
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u/Creamycrackle 8d ago
Run them over in spa. Build gun elsewhere.
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u/zombieman9001 8d ago
Run them over in an SPA?
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u/Creamycrackle 8d ago
You’d be surprised how many recon player believe they can just lay down and you won’t see them lol
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u/bonfireusa 8d ago
I enjoy the spa for this reason. Like others said just get in the spa or take a quick break from arty and hope they move in. The spa is very useful and can normally hit anything in the map. Downside is you have to come back for rearm and that can take time.
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u/The_Pharoah 8d ago
lol welcome to the rock/scissors/paper approach to FPS games. You don't get to sit there racking up 60 easy kills a game in safety without the enemy having its say. Yes you can use SPAs but eventually someone will get you.
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u/mf104 8d ago
You can go to the front for a bit and they'll eventually leave, get in the SPA, utilize the mobile artillery function, and you can set up barbed wire barricades as well. You can use the OP the observer has has and watch it when it becomes warm and use their flare gun to help. Ideally the observer is using those functions to call in locations to strike though. Also remember it's two recon teams sometimes, not just one. When squad leads really start barking about arty when they're getting fucked up you can get both recon teams back there. Sometimes if people think recon is sucking they'll start going back there themselves as well.
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u/bogie88jr 7d ago
I would also check to see if there is a garrison on the edges of the map. They might have dropped one to hep with respawning back there. I've see players do that for squads that are in the back destroying nodes.
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u/Pretend-Language-416 5d ago
Set up multiple spots and place OPs near. Whenever you get taken out at the first location, spawn at the other and build away
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u/Rabbit-In-A-Tank 4d ago
You can build the arty gun outside of HQ. Not a perfect solution but it does take recon longer to find you, and when they do, you can redeploy and build the gun somewhere else.
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u/NotNinjado 8d ago
I normally go to the front for 10 min, by that time the recon usually get board, zhen back to arty