[1.23]Katayusha

[Newbie.]

next we'll be adding a "Upgrade to ICMB" Upgrade.

[Akalonor]

Well seeme,  you have to Believe! they are there ! , and I dont see where they store it so they could be putting it in the truck....

[Seeme]

I know how you love to Belive In your Elf tales and Goblin storys, but this is real war!(Or fake,real war)

[Mr. Someguy]

Is it me or is the Katyusha just, well, almost useles? Maybe I've used it wrong / seen it used wrong, but it seems pretty crap.

Barraging a base caused minor damage, barraging some PE Vehicles caused some moderate damage, and barraging Infantry is, useless.

I've seen 3 Kats barrage a single PE Squad and only killed 3/4. I've seen 1 Kat barrage my AG Mob (6 4 man squads) and my PG's not take an ounce of damage. It's like they barraged us with raindrops.

[cephalos]

I use katyusha as distractor- often players make strange things to kill it.... and it's awesome weapon against buildings, obviously when you use three of them at once. It's always good to have 2-3 of them to bombard retreating enemy tanks, or wipe out mg, mortars, paks, and many more positions. It shouldn't be used as main assault weapon, like brit or us arty. it's just support weapon.
and killing 3/4 PG is quite good effect.
Always use katyushas in group of at least two, because one katyusha isn't enough.

[Mr. Someguy]

3 barrages on 1 squad to kill 3/4 of them is hardly what I'd call a good effect.

[Fementedbeancurd]

You know , the bots really need to be fixed at times. Some games they will ONLY create katyushas and spam them continuously , this makes terrible and annoying game play , you can just rush them with tanks and the game is over.

[GodlikeDennis]

3 barrages on 1 squad to kill 3/4 of them is hardly what I'd call a good effect.

This was A) a one time occurrence and B) not what they're used for.

They are utterly fantastic against blobs because they fire quickly and all of their payload hits the target area rather fast. They don't have the squad gib capabilities that shell-based artillery does but instead, completely carpet an area in explosions, forcing a retreat and many casualties. They are actually very effective against vehicles at close range as well. They also have a secondary role in RECON because their missiles target a large area and reveal everything they hit, useful before an attack. They also hit the field extremely early. Overall they're an excellent artillery piece.

[Paciat]

3 barrages on 1 squad to kill 3/4 of them is hardly what I'd call a good effect.

This is an old COH OF 3v1 game. Im posting this becouse M4 Calliopes barrage a Kingtiger killing repairing Pios time and time again, finnaly kiling the KT. German player was no noob.
Vidcast #28 part1

[GodlikeDennis]

Pretty terrible vidcast. Can't believe he was actually reading out the chat...