How to deploy Monster Bombard?

[Firey the Unorthodox]

The Monster Bombard seems like it was made specifically for sieges. I usually deploy artillery on the side of my army.

[Consulo]

Yeah, I believe historically, it was used for siege warfare, not open field battles. That said, find a piece of high ground away from your main units. If you're overly concerned about the unit's safety, keep a spear unit or two with it in case of attack. You'd be better off just using catapults or trebuchets in open field battles though.

[Vipman]

I think this unit represents the canons that Ottomans used to breach the walls of Constantinople.

It's best used to make huge walls into rubble. Aiming for towers and gates isn't so good as they are hard to hit and would waste time and ammo. It fires huge cannon balls but it reloads very slowly. Against units it's not very accurate and not so much damage because area effect is small and there's no 'fire ball' ability (I think).

In siege battles I obviously put siege units in front of my army, in front of what is each unit's target if I have more of them, one for the gates which would also shoot down the towers, others to each side to bring down walls where enemy units stand on preferably.

[Silverheart]

As has been pointed out, the Monster Bombard is designed specifically for sieges - it´s too poor in accuracy to hit anything that moves.
With that said, my experience of using them in field battles is that they are still pretty good if you have two or three of them.
While they will certainly not damage the enemys´ troops, unless they get a lucky shot, having enourmous cannonballs hollowing out the ground everywhere will damage enemy morale. If used with more accurate artillery as well as long-range missile troops and the like, you can typically place yourself in a defensive position and watch the enemy wither away as they get unnerved by the artillery and picked off by the missile troops. Then you just use cavalry to ride in from the flanks and collect the routers (note that you have to be very careful before sending in the cavalry, lest they might get blown to pieces by your own artillery).

[Steward Denethor II]

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And I have found Monster Bombards to be useless on the field.