The enemy just seems to keep coming at us. Artillery is the answer. This is what we need to win the war.

DEaTH TO BUILDINGS
tl;dr
griefer tool

Griefers won't get it if it's gonna be available after couple of kills.

There's a simpler way to prevent griefers from using them. Just make the artillery incapable of hitting a player's own half of the map. Problem at least 85% solved.

I'm still not sold on having artillery in the first place, but that's more out of gameplay concerns. Keeping them from being used by griefers seems like a pretty simple issue to solve to me.

I just wanted to show you guys that awesome nuclear cannon, but since we're discussing artillery anyway...

You could let each player choose to carry a small number of artillery shells instead of grenades. The shells would then have to be carried to the gun, which spawns randomly, and once you ran out you'd be "kicked off" said gun.

-can't be used for spamming shells

I dunno if we really need artillery tho, seems like the short render distance, combined with the fact that you almost never get close groups of enemy players out in the open would make it redundant except against structures. Also, if it has to be stationary that takes away half the fun :<

Maybe the Artillery should have a minimum effective distance (Say 2 - 4 grids away) just like IRL.

P.S. @Mega: That pic's one of those train mounted cannons Hitler had made, right?

For crying out loud- use the search button! This has all been discussed before in great detail. Go here and add something NEW to the debate, don't just post another topic that retreads the same path all over again.

@ Joseph Allen: Nope, this is an experimental American-made nuclear cannon.

If somebody else suggested using these in AoS I'd be this surprised.