With the update, and the debuff for the smerches and burratinos, most of us have thought rocket arty dead. But I made a discovery earlier today: corrected RM70 barrages. Used like a burratino, and properly corrected and centered on target, the rockets begin falling at the edges of the fire circle first, and then slowly begin to edge towards the middle, where hopefully the target is, and then shells a spot about 20 m squared with a barrage of 15 high-explosive rockets.
This usually takes 10 seconds, and can kill a full health T80, when centered and corrected exactly. And the cool part is this: they have a total of 80 missiles each for two 40 missile barrages, so one RM70 can kill a fully armored tank in it's center. I used only one to kill that T80. Try it out, see what you can do. Be sure to correct and center exactly, or else it will do almost no damage.

Supplies are still an issue.

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Praslovan:
"Tactical Ikalugin inbound on this position in 10... 9..."

Not really. I got three barrages from 3 TI18s
that's 25 points a barrage.
if you can kill 30+ pts of units, you're good.

As soon as I see the cicle I move out of it and the rockets have not enough punch to kill units that move out through the circle. The way corrected shot work sucks (fact that shot always miss at the beginning) and this is even more evident with RM70. I've never lost more than a few infantry to their barrages.

It may costs you "only" 25 per barrage, if your ennemy is offensive you've lost 150points in a useless rocket launcher.

Everytime I see an incoming RM70 barrage I think "cool I'm safe !" Your only chance to kill a tank is that it is stuck routing.

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We may shouldn't forget that the price of a unit tells a lot about its worth. As we know a single SMERCH unit isn't doing much if any good, and costs 175p. A Malka is 90p and people mostly deploy 4 of these. Now a RM70 150p is a BM-21 GRAD 80p with twice as much Ammo, so instead of a RM70 we could speak of 2 BM-21 GRAD -10p.

For the same amount of money you would field 4 Malkas you could field 4 and a half BM-21 GRAD so lets say we are generous and deploy 5 BM-21 GRAD. A tank can not run away from 5 BM-21 GRAD shooting at it when you do not aim at the very same spot but around the tank.

I am pretty sure that 5 BM-21 GRAD shooting simultanously at you are quite deadly when they hit.

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BM21 is soft skinned and would need to be close (mortar range) to be effective, especially vs well protected western tanks in the game.

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Praslovan:
"Tactical Ikalugin inbound on this position in 10... 9..."

The low HE power (3) combined with its terrible accuracy lend it towards being a pretty bad artillery unit (also with its large range it has a big minimum range, preventing a more effective close range artillery support). For 150 points you can also purchase the Buratino which has a much smaller firing circle, only ten less shells in a barrage, and 5 HE power.

But not the same role at all though.

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I know what I'm using. I had a game a couple of days ago where I took out 8 mortar vehicles in a single Smerch barrage.

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No that's why they suck.
Anything except soft targets (5HP) can pass through the ring of fire and by the time rockets become accurate I can put my infantry back in the vehicles and move away from the center of the circle. It takes around 20sec between the first rocket's hit and the moment when rockets accurately hit.

Smerch will deal infinitely more damage.

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