Counter-Battery Mission

1. Prepare before the clock owns the mission

Read every message and mark all confirmed artillery, observer, and reference positions. For visible or already identified batteries, measure solutions early and keep one firing card per target. Community players consistently report that the opening phase is where the later time advantage is created.

1. Mark confirmed hostile guns and possible search areas.
2. Assign a target to each barrel where practical.
3. Record bearing, range, shell, charges, and elevation separately.
4. Load both guns before starting a sequence of timed engagements.

2. Do not confuse a clue with the battery

A report may describe incoming fire, a spotter, a landmark, or an area that contains the guns. Use two compatible bearings for triangulation, or use the available illumination and reconnaissance tools to reveal the actual battery. Destroying unrelated targets does not necessarily stop the counter-battery threat.

3. Update the NEST marker after every move

Relocating the NEST buys time, but the tactical-map marker does not automatically become a valid origin for your old solutions. Players commonly lose the mission because they continue measuring from the former position. Obtain or confirm the new position, move the marker, then rebuild bearing and range for every surviving target.

1. Complete or record the relocation.
2. Confirm the new grid position using the mission's position information.
3. Move the NEST marker on the map.
4. Discard old bearings and ranges.
5. Recalculate charge and elevation pairs from the new range.

4. Fire both barrels as a planned pair

The two guns reduce dead time only when their values stay separate. Load both, set each elevation for its assigned target, rotate to the first bearing, fire, then traverse to the second prepared bearing. Avoid using one target's charge count or elevation on the other barrel.

5. Balance high charges against resupply

More powder can lower elevation and shorten flight time, which is useful under pressure. In challenge variants, however, maximum-charge shooting consumes limited requisition resources quickly. Use faster solutions for the shots where time matters most and lower-cost solutions when the timer and gun-laying angle allow them.

If the timer continues after your shot

First confirm impact actually destroyed the artillery target rather than a nearby unit. Then check for an additional or newly activated battery, review later reports, and search unrevealed areas using the available recon method. Community reports show that a final battery or newly active gun can keep the threat running even when the initially visible map looks clear.

Fast failure diagnosis

If a prepared shot misses, classify the failure before reloading: wrong direction means recheck target identity, NEST origin, and bearing; short or long means recheck range, charge count, and elevation; no objective progress means recheck shell type and whether the destroyed object was the required battery.