We claim that our rules are simple, but the reader contemplating artillery fire is immediately confronted with several pages of different kinds of fire missions, national differences, Call-for-Fire restrictions, etc. This tutorial is designed to introduce you to artillery with concrete examples.
Note: We made several modifications to the artillery rules that can be found on our official errata page. The examples below reflect these errata and may differ from the original rulebook.

The steps necessary for most fire missions are:

1. Choose a firing unit or organization, target and observer
2. Choose the type of fire mission and place the appropriate templates
3. Resolve the Call-for-Fire procedure to determine if the attack takes place.
4. Resolve the attack against any units caught in the templates.

This tutorial will show how you perform these steps and determine how to calculate fire missions.

Title	Contents
Shelling	On-board Shelling by section, basic IDF procedures and resolution
Call-for-fire	Some of the reasoning behind the call-for-fire rules
Call-for-fire Example	Use of an observer, Call-for-Fire roll
Danger Close	Resolving Danger Close Attacks
Battery Fire	An introduction to artillery batteries.
Battery Fire Missions	The options and modifiers available for battery fire, with an emphasis on the German Heavy Mortar Platoon FS-01.
Battalion Fire Missions	Basic Battalion Fire Missions
General Support	General Support
Scenario Artillery	Scenario Artillery
German Artillery	German Artillery Doctrine It's mine-you can't use it.
Russian Artillery	Russian Artillery Doctrine Sorry, we can't do that...
British Artillery	British Artillery Doctrine To them that have much will be given.
United States Artillery	American Artillery Doctrine Anything you want, you've got it...
Blitzkrieg/Early War	Emphasis on French Artillery Doctrine Artillery conquers, Infantry Occupies!
Belgian Artillery	Belgian 1940 doctrine Fighting the last war
Japanese Artillery	Not much, not often
Fire Plans	Some Suggestions for pre-planned fire
Optional Rules	Some Suggestions for enhancing the game system.

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Useful Links

For an extremely detailed study of British artillery, please check out the Royal Artillery page.