Artillery vs. Air Strikes

Draschel: Has to do with call-down time.  amount of delivered munitions, and area of affect. An artillery bombardment, arrives sooner and scatters several rounds in fired for effect. It arrives much sooner, there is a greater overall coverage, though less damage per individual ordnance. An airstrike munition, arrives in a longer duration sequence, dropping single delivered bomb. It takes more time to arrive, has greater area of effect per ordnance, greater damage, but is a single drop.  Front lines strikes are generally different, in effect.  These weapons are generally most effective in tier 6. Even low SH level artillery, can cripple something like OI or AT8, ridiculously armoured tier 6 vehicles. A fully upped SH level single artillery bombardment bomblet, I have seen can do over 400dmg to an OI. Several rounds are fired, and can easily kill any target. By tier 8 though, the effectiveness is severely reduced. I have seen even low protected vehicles get caught inside an artillery firestorm, in the center and survive, like FCM50T and Prog46. Airstrikes do more damage, but again are harder to use because of call-time requirement. By tier X, the skirmish off-map consumables are the least effective. Tanks like object 268V4 or Maus, can literally wade through the explosives, and not even take 1/3 HP damage.