Artillery

Tools entity

Includes cannons and other indirect fire weapons.

98
games
36
platforms

Alternate name: Indirect fire weapons

Pre-modern examples:
* Catapult
* Ballista
* Trebutchet
* Crossbowmen (if used for indirect fire, rare)
* Bowmen (if used for indirect fire, rare)
* Musketeers (if used for indirect fire, very rare)

Early modern examples:
* Cannons, after they were pulled out from the front lines due to improved firearm technology (used for direct fire until then)
* Field guns

Modern examples:
* Warship broadside (earlier they were direct fire)
* M270 MLRS (multiple rocket launcher)
* Nebelwerfer
* T34 Calliope

Usage note: Technically artillery includes direct fire weaponry too, but for our (UVL) purposes this is used for indirect only due to lack of a simple word for indirect fire weaponry.
Overlaps:
* Siege engines

Related:
* Artillery game - a game genre that doesn't always involve actual artillery weapons, but still follows the principles of artillery firing.
* Superguns

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Parent group

Ranged weapons

Child group

Games by year

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The first Artillery video game was released in 1975.

Avalon Hill, THQ and Xonox published most of these games.

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Platforms

Windows 31
Linux 15
X360 5
Mac OS X 4
C64 3
BeOS 3
Amiga 3
Apple II E 3
TRS-80 2
VIC-20 2
MS-DOS 2
ColecoVision 1
NEC PC8801 1
Mac OS Classic 1
BBC 1
Odyssey2 1
PS3 1
Atari 400/800 1
Flash 1
G7400 1
OS/2 1
Atari 2600 1
Android 1
Astrocade 1
iOS 1
C16/Plus4 1
Xbox One 1
Tatung Einstein 1
BSD 1
Mega Drive 1

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