Any Benefits to Maintaining Artillery’s Fatigue Bar?

[J Canuck]

I notice that artillery loses its entire Fatigue bar over time from continuous firing. Can anyone say if there are any detrimental affects other than: “not be able to run or charge the enemy” (manual quote)? In other words, are there any additional reasons for recharging artillery’s Fatigue bar other than regaining the ability to run?

In order to recharge the Fatigue bar, I do prefer the SOW method which makes it unnecessary to first hide artillery from the enemy’s LOS – that was necessary in TC2M. In order to recharge Fatigue however, I notice it is still necessary to force artillery to remain limbered by using the #1 key to keep it from firing – just makes sense.

[ADukes]

With more fatigue the chances are higher that a gun will fallback or retreat if its morale drops.
Also affected are the loading times and the firing accuracy.

[BOSTON]

J Canuck wrote:

I notice that artillery loses its entire Fatigue bar over time from continuous firing. Can anyone say if there are any detrimental affects other than: “not be able to run or charge the enemy” (manual quote)? In other words, are there any additional reasons for recharging artillery’s Fatigue bar other than regaining the ability to run?

In order to recharge the Fatigue bar, I do prefer the SOW method which makes it unnecessary to first hide artillery from the enemy’s LOS – that was necessary in TC2M. In order to recharge Fatigue however, I notice it is still necessary to force artillery to remain limbered by using the #1 key to keep it from firing – just makes sense.

I'm interested to hear the response to Canuck's post also, plus what the ratio of recovery from fatigue might be?

[GShock]

Why limbering the gun? Doesn't the cease fire button work?

[J Canuck]

Hmmmmm ...... never thought of that.

I just carried over my habits from TC2M where I believed that didn't work. At TC2M I found my arty had to be out of any enemy's LOS plus be limbered before it would start to revive its Fatigue, but after so long, I'm not 110% sure. I'll test your "cease fire" thought. Thanks.