炮術

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炮術
	初級炮術： 可以手動控制弩車攻擊目標，並增加攻擊次數和殺傷力。也可以控制箭塔的攻擊。攻擊一次。50%幾率出現雙倍威力。  HotA：也可以手動控制加農炮攻擊目標，並讓加農炮對防禦工事攻擊造成額外傷害。
	中級炮術： 可以手動控制弩車攻擊目標，並增加攻擊次數和殺傷力。也可以控制箭塔的攻擊。攻擊兩次。75%幾率出現雙倍威力。  HotA：也可以手動控制加農炮攻擊目標，並讓加農炮對防禦工事攻擊造成額外傷害。
	高級炮術： 可以手動控制弩車攻擊目標，並增加攻擊次數和殺傷力。也可以控制箭塔的攻擊。攻擊兩次。100%幾率出現雙倍威力。  HotA：也可以手動控制加農炮攻擊目標，並讓加農炮對防禦工事攻擊造成額外傷害。

Artillery is a secondary skill that gives the hero manual control over war machine Ballista (or Cannon ) during combat and control over the arrow towers when defending a town during siege. Artillery provides control over the arrow towers also in the original game, even though it's not mentioned in the in-game description of the skill. It's interesting that Ballista is controlled by Artillery secondary skill rather than Ballistics, which is responsible for Catapult.

"Double damage" in the skill description does not mean that the final damage is necessarily duplicated, as it might also be increased by other factors, such as high Attack skill - compare damage formula.

Heroes with Artillery (basic) as a starting skill:

•   Ignissa - 位面行者
•   Pasis - 位面行者
•   Vokial - 死亡騎士
•   Zubin - 戰鬥法師

Heroes, having Ballista as a specialty:

•   Torosar - 鍊金術士

Heroes, having Ballista as a specialty and 炮術 (basic) as a starting skill:

•   Arlach - 地下領主
•   Christian - 騎士
•   Gerwulf - 馴獸師
•   Gurnisson - 野蠻人
•   Pyre - 魔鬼
•   Ranloo - 死亡騎士 
•   Jeremy - 船長  ^{*Cannon instead of Ballista.}

深淵號角

Effects on cannon:

With Basic Artillery or Advanced Artillery the cannon does randomly 1 or 2 points of damage to fortifications. With Expert Artillery the cannon always does 2 points of damage to fortifications. With Advanced Artillery the cannon does double damage and with Expert Artillery triple damage to enemies. As opposed to ballistas, cannons always shoot once.

Chance to get

Out of total 112 for 死亡陰影, and of (112 + Interference chance) for 深淵號角 .
Banned skills change the probability.

城鎮	類型	學會幾率
城堡	騎士	5
城堡	牧師	2
堡壘	巡邏兵	6
堡壘	德魯伊	1 (lowest)
塔樓	鍊金術士	4
塔樓	術士	1 (lowest)
地獄	魔鬼	5
地獄	異教徒	4
墓園	死亡騎士	5
墓園	巫師	3
地下城	地下領主	8 (highest)
地下城	妖術師	1 (lowest)
據點	野蠻人	8 (highest)
據點	戰鬥法師	4
要塞	馴獸師	8 (highest)
要塞	女巫	1 (lowest)
元素城	位面行者	8 (highest)
元素城	元素使	1 (lowest)
港口	船長	5
港口	領航員	1 (lowest)

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Artillery is useful if you have access to Ballista, and even better choice would be selecting a hero with this speciality as your "number one", especially on small maps. If the Blacksmith of your home town doesn't produce Ballistas, but you have an opportunity to get it (by capturing a town with Ballista, on the map, or building a Ballista Yard in a Stronghold), Artillery is a good choice. Moreover, it allows you to fully control the town's defense (as sometimes arrow towers kill enemy's least valuable troops, i.e. neither ranged nor flying). High price of a Ballista is "the other side of the medal". A secondary hero may learn Artillery so as to shoot wandering creatures and weak enemy troops, avoiding melee attack and thus decreasing losses. Always learn Artillery if you rely much on Blind spell, as otherwise Ballista may shoot blinded creatures, making them able to fight. The only redeeming feature of Artillery skill is that while defending a siege, it gives the defending hero control over the arrow tower(s). Sometimes more valuable than the damage of the towers is the chance of defending hero to cast the first spell in each round. Additionally, heroes with Artillery specialty start with a ballista, which can be useful in the combat as the AI sometimes attacks it wasting an otherwise possibly harmful attack on the "free" ballista. However, purchasing a ballista for this purpose is typically purposeless unless the kingdom has plenty of gold to spare. The problem with Artillery skill is the ballista, which is not only ineffective but also expensive, weak and possible risk factor during combat. An example of the ineffectiveness is that even if the hero has Expert Artillery, Expert Archery, Attack skill value of 20 and the target is within range, the ballista only deals approximately 200 damage against a neutral stack of Archangel. Moreover, the ballista has only 250 health and acts last during the combat round, which means it may be destroyed in battles even before it can inflict any damage at all. Another major disadvantage of ballista is, that in a combat it may provide creatures with breath attack an opportunity to attack troops behind ballista without fear of retaliation. Not to mention the fact, that ballista is not deployed when attacking creature banks or defending against a siege. When playing on 200% difficulty (eg., the setting usually reserved for competitive games), players start with minimal resources. In this instance, heroes that start with Artillery can be a godsend, especially if your town lacks ranged units by default and you cannot afford to upgrade units during the first few turns. Because of their large pool of hitpoints, you can kite a single flying stack around, out of danger, while the artillery softens the enemy stacks to the point where your stack can one-shot them.

See also:

• Secondary skills