r/GatesOfHellOstfront

I cannot STAND THESE FUCKERS, I don't care what any dev or mod makers say these things are absolute CHEATS.

I'm doing a conquest on high economy and hard difficulty and the amount of mortar spam from the enemy AI is just absurd. I was doing a mission on attack and 2 of the 3 capture points were right next to each other, in the literal corner of the map. There was one mortar just behind a small hill, so I couldn't get eyes on it with scouts. And because of where it was I wasn't able to flank it because it was supported by a fucking AT gun. Because the mortar was in the furthest corner of the map, enemies would just respawn and take the damn thing back after I took it out within a matter of seconds.

Every god damn time I went to take it out with troops they would immediately wipe out the advance. It even managed to get a direct hit on a moving armored truck that I was using to take it out on its FIRST TRY. My arty got taken out earlier by a small squad flanking my back line so that was out (i've noticed since the update the enemy flanks from a variety of different angles now). This single mortar single-handedly wiped out half of my troops.

I hate these god damn things so much I am begging the devs make enemy mortars have limited ammo or some kind of cooldown to simulate it. Every time you come across a mortar you have to halt your advance, pull your troops out of position, and use a recon plane or scout troop to find it, then spam it with artillery until its completely destroyed. If you can't do that then you're practically SOL.

Edit: For the love of god I know that there is a ping that shows approximately where its firing from, but again its approximate. Because of arty accuracy you could sit there for 5+ minutes pummeling the general area with artillery and still not hit it. Ultimately what annoys me the most is that mortars IMO aren't that good for players, they use an insane amount of ammo but dont get enough kills to make up for it. MGs, AA guns, and arty are far superior. But because AI gets unlimited ammo they become the most oppressive thing in the game.