Mortars are not the same as artillery, just an FYI. As such they would not exceed the range of a railgun. If anything they would match it, but would probably be closer to mass driver range on our current maps. It would also need to be rotatable to some degree or else when you notice your rounds are landing beside the target you would be able to do nothing about it.

The artillery piece that you describe is a howitzer. Excellent weapons that nowadays have ones mounted on a mobile firing platform that can fulfil most combat artillery roles from direct fire to indirect fire. It's the direction I'd like to see the mobile artillery in Dust to go.

Mortars are not the same as artillery, just an FYI. As such they would not exceed the range of a railgun. If anything they would match it, but would probably be closer to mass driver range on our current maps. It would also need to be rotatable to some degree or else when you notice your rounds are landing beside the target you would be able to do nothing about it.

I agree for the most part, but mobile artillery are usually to lightlu armored to duke it out with.tanks and live. It's range should come at the cost of HUGE (1400) PG requirements

Types of artillery:
Guns: think of the 120mm cannon on the M1 abrams. Mostly straight trajectory.
Howitzers: The modern M777. A medium between the gum and the morter.
Morter: the 81mm morter of today. Very steep trajectory.

All are technically artillery, though howitzers claim most of the fame. These weapons could be extremely powerful with a good crew (gunner, spotter, at a high altitude to adjust fire, and a forward observer embedded in the the infantry to request fire. No longer would railguns dominate if.they couldn't return fire bc LOS isn't necessary anymore

Dear baby Jesus, everyone is always an expert on military stuff arent they? The main gun on an Abrams is not artillery, it is a tank cannon that does not lob its ammunition. Mortars are man-portable, have much shorter range, and are not artillery. Only artillery is artillery, howizter is simply another name for a piece of artillery.

Ya might want to have a read into mortars. They come in both smaller infantry transported and larger self propelled versions.

Ya might want to have a read into mortars. They come in both smaller infantry transported and larger self propelled versions.

Please show me one of these self propelled mortars since my time as a weapons repairman and a Cavalry Scout in the Army means I have no knowledge of such things whatsoever. Please do, both of you, try and show me.

So putting a weapon on/in a vehicle turns it into a differant kind of weapon?

The artillery piece that you describe is a howitzer. Excellent weapons that nowadays have ones mounted on a mobile firing platform that can fulfil most combat artillery roles from direct fire to indirect fire. It's the direction I'd like to see the mobile artillery in Dust to go.