Raiders from Nuka-World will not fire the mortar, but will still give the six additional points to defense and show the resource as assigned.

Paladin Danse dislikes it when the Sole Survivor builds artillery.

This renders artillery smoke grenades useless in those regions.

Artillery pieces cannot be built on the Island and in Nuka-World, nor do the Minutemen have any sort of jurisdiction there.

If a settler assigned to the artillery piece is unable to make their way towards the mortar or is otherwise trapped by object placement, the mortar may begin to turn by itself.

Artillery makes use of the in-game timescale, so the lower the timescale, the longer it takes for each shell of artillery to land (default timescale is 20 and each shell takes 4 seconds to land at that timescale).

This allows artillery to still add to settlement defense ratings and provide its normal fire support despite being installed in a protected or covered area like the Castle bastion or armory.

Conversely, outbound shells will not hit a settlement's structures when they are fired from that settlement.

Likewise, attempting to shell a deep area such as Thicket Excavations will see the shells hitting the quarry walls or impacting the surrounding hills, with only a few shells reaching the target area.

When calling artillery in the downtown area, the inbound shells may simply hit a building instead of the designated target.

The shell explosions benefit from the Demolition Expert perk.

Additional artillery pieces extend the duration of the fire mission.

Each gun fires five shots during a fire mission, but the shells always fall at the same rate.

Radio Freedom will advise when this is the case.

Artillery will not fire on a friendly settlement.

To maximize artillery coverage of the Commonwealth, they can be placed at each allied settlement.

The artillery piece can be built after recovering the artillery schematic. After a strike, there is a delay of one in-game hour (which equates to three real-time minutes) before another strike can be initiated. If multiple settlements with active artillery are within range of a target, all of them may engage, significantly increasing the number of shells striking the target. Fire mission progress may be monitored on Radio Freedom. It becomes active only after a settler is assigned to operate it.Īrtillery strikes are called down by throwing an artillery smoke grenade into a target area that is within range of active artillery.

Its ammunition is unlimited, and its maximum range is approximately a five-sector radius, as viewed on the Pip-Boy's world map. Each piece of artillery will fire five shells, so building multiple mortars will increase the number of shells fired from one settlement. The artillery piece is a mortar that consecutively fires highly damaging shells with a high level of precision and accuracy.

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