Hi everyone,
I am so sick and tired of reading players complaining about howitzers!! If you can't handle the challenge then maybe you're playing the wrong game! Instead of complaining, one can learn how to fight and overcome howitzers!! I think howitzers make the game a real challenge, you can't just waltz up to our enemy and just stand there shooting them for an hour, no you'll actually need to have a plan in order to overcome your enemy in time before your troops get chewed by explosive shells, or manage to take out those shells before they pose a threat to your troops!! but how?? now that's a challenge.
Different Generals had different strategies: Napoleon was about speed, he moves faster than you can react so you have little time to make a concentrated artillery offensive. Alexander Suvorov's strategy was to get his troops in contact with your troops ASAP so that you can't use your artillery or you risk killing your troops instead!! they didn't complain and whine about howitzers, no, they developed a strategy!! try developing one too!
Howitzers are a realistic weapon of the time which did wreck havoc on the battle field. Artillery Batteries contained 2 howitzers out of 8 or 25% of each battery. so out of lets say 600 guns in an army, 150 were howitzers!! and guess what?? they were accurate and they were deadly! they had explosive shells for God's sake what do you expect??? of course they will kill your troops that's the whole point of playing this game!!! for me to kill your troops!!!
I've learned how to counter howitzers and defeat them, and sometimes i end up suffering heavy casualties but that's war! casualties!! If you don't like howitzers then you should either stop playing the game or start learning how to play!! People are just too lazy and uncomfortable with the idea of having to THINK and come up with a time sensitive PLAN of killing your enemy before they kill you.