Skilled players will likely also have some AA in the vicinity, making faster bombers more favourable. Gunships are a very effective counter to enemy mobile artillery, and can quickly tear through their lines. Against a skilled player, your units will run through the enemy barrage, only to arrive heavily damaged, and fall quickly to the enemy's own direct-fire units. Trust them to pick their own targets while moving around.Д¬harging straight at them is rarely a good idea, as their large damage and spread can make quick work of your land forces. Simply place move commands do not order attack commands or the units will stop and then become much easier to hit. When encountering enemy mobile artillery, it is important to keep units moving, because artillery shells take a long time to land and movement will enable them to dodge enemy shells. For the especially concerned player, some direct fire units can be useful in case of a ground attack, though large quantities of mobile artillery tend to negate the risk. Mobile shield generators are also strongly recommended, as the artillery's low health can make them easy targets, despite anti-air support. Therefore, it is advisable to protect them with mobile anti-air units. This means that bombers, and especially gunships can take them down with ease. Mobile artillery tends to have very low health, and, as a rule, no defense against air units. There is no T2 version of mobile artillery, although the Mobile Missile Launchers fulfil a similar role in destroying defenses at long range.

Mobile artillery is capable of outranging any point defenses of equivalent tech level, making them invaluable against defensive positions which have not yet been fully established. They can also be used to good effect in base assaults.

Their relatively large damage area, and high initial damage make them very effective against clustered enemies. Typically, the purpose of mobile artillery is to disrupt large forces of enemy units.

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