Field Gun

Feldgeschütz

Modern Age Light ArtillerySiegeHero capable

The field gun of the Modern Age is the product of two world wars' brutal education about what artillery needs on an industrial battlefield. The split-trail carriage — two outrigger legs that open to either side — allowed wide traverse without moving the entire gun, enabling rapid target engagement. The gun shield protected the crew from small arms and fragments in direct-fire roles. High-explosive shells with delay fuzes penetrated field fortifications before detonating; time-fuzed shells burst above infantry with devastating fragmentation effect. Iconic designs — the German 7.5cm le.IG 18, British QF 25-pounder, Soviet ZiS-3 — embody this doctrine of versatile, mobile, hard-hitting support artillery. In game it delivers powerful fire against fortifications and massed troops and repositions quickly by motorized transport. Its vulnerability is direct tank fire and air attack — without combined arms protection it is quickly overwhelmed.

Gold

30

Iron

80

Saltpeter

50