Artillery

What is Artillery?
Artillery is the first Gunboat Weapon available, and continues to be one of the most important weapons to be used at any stage of the game. When you aim at specific point, Gunboat fires a cannon shell to damage that area.

Support your troops in battle with Gunboat!

Your Gunboat fires a high-explosive cannon shell that damages enemy buildings. Be careful not to hit your own troops!

Artillery Fact (from level 1 to 20)
Damage = 700 – 5024
At each level, Damage increases for 77, 85, 95, 106… and up to 444 in the last upgrade.

Initial Energy Cost to fire Artillery = 3
Subsequent Artillery consume 2 more Gunboat Energy than previous one.
Energy Cost consumed = 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13 …

One Artillery shot can hit up to 4 Buildings if they are in contact with each other.

Upgrading Tactics
Try upgrading you Artillery as much as possible. This will indirectly save your Gunboat Energy and allow you to take down key Defense Buildings before deploying your troops.

For example, Rocket Launcher level 1 has 4,000 health. You need 4 shots of Artillery level 5 – 7 to take it down, while only required 3 shots of level 8 Artillery.

Attack Tactics for Artillery
Who said playing game does not need your brain? Playing Boom Beach does require basic Mathematics especially when using Gunboat Weapons.

 1) Know your Artillery damage vs. Building health
Choose key Defense Buildings you plan to destroy, and then calculate how much Artillery you need to take down the Defense Buildings.

2) Know how much Gunboat Energy you use and gain
Calculate how much Gunboat Energy you use to fire Artillery and how much you gain back from destroying buildings.

It is very important to plan ahead how much Gunboat Energy you will use during the battle and not waste too much Energy for firing Artillery. If you use Tank, after firing Artillery, make sure that you will have enough Gunboat Energy left to deploy your Tanks.

Defense Tactics against Artillery
1) Avoid Defense building contact
Never ever place your Defense building in contact with other buildings, including corner-touch-corner. If opponent plan to destroy one Cannon using 2 Artillery shots, having another building touching the Cannon results in 3 free Gunboat Energy. Exception is Headquarters, as Headquarters has high amount of health.

In high level gameplay, this may not be true as player will have lots of buildings to arrange and sometimes it can be more effective to have tight placement.

2) Mine placement
Avoid placing Mine/Boom Mine next to Defense buildings, and avoid placing 2 Boom Mines next to each other. Artillery shot can trigger the Mine and explode them.

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