For other uses, see Artillery.

Artillery
Unit
Affiliation	Nod CABAL Forgotten
Role	Self-propelled artillery
Armament	155mm HE artillery cannon
Properties
Hit points	300
Production
Cost	$975
Produced by	Nod War Factory
Requires	Nod Radar
Combat
Ground attack	150 (HE)
Cooldown	110 frames
Speed	5
Attack range	5-18
Sight range	9
Function
Abilities	Deploys to fire

Deployable artillery was used by Nod, CABAL and the Forgotten during the Second Tiberium War and the Firestorm Crisis, continuing the Brotherhood's extensive use of mobile artillery from the First Tiberium War.

BackgroundEdit

The new, advanced artillery unit deploys stabilizers and becomes stationary before firing, to accommodate the massive recoil. In return, it has an awesome range and its shells are effective at reducing fortifications and advancing enemy forces to dust, as the cannon is surprisingly very accurate even against moving targets.

LegacyEdit

The artillery design proved to be very influential, as new generations of it were developed, most importantly the stealth Specter of the Third Tiberium War.

Game unitEdit

In vanilla Tiberian Sun, the artillery is the most powerful conventional unit of Nod, with extreme range, accuracy, and power which makes it excellent in both sidge and defense roles. What makes the artillery more horrifying is its status as a low-tech-level unit; a player may build it with only a combination of a war factory and a Nod Radar; not even a tech center is required. When 5 or more are deployed, GDI titans in limited numbers, will be shredded by concentrated fire without even getting close. Airpower is the most effective way to deal with artilleries, experienced player, with skillful micromanagement, may be able to destroy several clustered artilleries in a single bombing run with Orca Bombers, so artillery users have to pay extreme attention to mobile air defense, which is most often provided by large group of rocket soldiers. Stealth tanks are not an ideal option for mobile air defense because they won't attack actively and have to de-stealth before firing which takes time. One unwanted side effect is that when used for base defense purposes, the explosion of artillery shells may create large crater near the user's base, rendering the terrain unsuitable for building construction. For the sake of game balance, artilleries are nerfed in Firestorm, with their damage, range, and accuracy for moving targets reduced significantly.

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v·d·e Brotherhood of Nod Second Tiberium War Arsenal

Units Infantry Light infantry • Rocket infantry • Elite cadre • Engineer • Toxin soldier • Mutant Hijacker • Cyborg • Cyborg Reaper • Cyborg commando Vehicles Subterranean APC • Attack buggy • Attack cycle • Tick tank • MCV • Harvester • Weed eater • Mobile sensor array • Mobile repair vehicle • Mobile stealth generator • Mobile artillery • Stealth tank • Devil's Tongue • Fist of Nod • Limpet drone • Hunter-Seeker droid Aircraft Banshee • Harpy   Structures Production Construction yard • Tiberium refinery • Hand of Nod • War factory • Fist of Nod • Helipad Support Power plant • Advanced power plant • Radar station • Tiberium silo • Tech center • Temple of Nod • Stealth generator • Tiberium waste facility • Missile silo • Nod Pyramid Defenses Gate • Pavement • Laser turret • Laser fence • Obelisk of Light • SAM site • EMP cannon   Other Misc. Montauk • Global tunnel system Weapons Chemical missile • Multi missile Items in italics are exclusive to Firestorm

v·d·e CABAL Second Tiberium War Arsenal

Units Cyborgs & Robots Cyborg • Cyborg reaper • Cyborg commando • Limpet drone • Hunter-Seeker droid • Core Defender Vehicles Subterranean APC • Attack buggy • Attack cycle • Tick tank • MCV • Harvester • Weed eater • Mobile sensor array • Mobile repair vehicle • Mobile stealth generator • Mobile artillery • Stealth tank • Devil's Tongue Aircraft Banshee • Harpy Structures Production Construction yard • Tiberium refinery • Hand of Nod • War factory • Fist of Nod • Helipad Support Power plant • Advanced power plant • Radar station • Tiberium silo • Tech center • Temple of Nod • Stealth generator • Tiberium waste facility • Missile silo • Nod Pyramid Defenses Pavement • Laser turret • Laser fence • Obelisk of Light • SAM site • EMP cannon • Firestorm generator • Firestorm wall section Special CABAL Core • Obelisk of Darkness • CABAL Obelisk • Firestorm generator Other Weapons Chemical missile • Multi missile • Cyborg production plant

v·d·e Forgotten Second Tiberium War Arsenal

Units Infantry Mutant Soldier • Mutant Sergeant • Mutant Hijacker • Mutant Sniper • Ghost Stalker • Tiberian Fiend Vehicles Attack buggy • Attack cycle • Wolverine Mk. I • Artillery • Harvester • Mammoth tank Aircraft Harpy   Structures Production Construction yard • Tiberium refinery • Barracks • War factory • Helipad Support Power plant • Advanced power plant Defenses Laser turret • Component tower (SAM) • Obelisk of Light • SAM site Items in italics are only used in Firestorm