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If artillery can accurately and quickly demolish mobile armies then you could easily end up with SCIFI ww1. Tanks would become extinct and it would all be about large zones of no mans land patrolled by observer drones
Traditionally artillery has lower mobility than tanks, takes longer to set up and requires observation of the target to be effective. I am thinking of WW2 mostly here
If artillery has the same mobility and kill power as main tank rounds and can do so indirectly then it will truely have come a long way towards being the dominant life form.
Another way to ensure that artillery is ballanced at low tech levels is to have games that are not simply prepared battle. A lot of cold war soviet doctrine focussed on the idea of an encounter battle where 2 divisions advanced to contact. Pretty much every general I read about from Haig onwards wanted to break past the defences and get into a war of manouvre.
I reckon wars of manourvre make for an interesting game, assault games are interesting as well but should not be the only game type.
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