Artillery and Volley

Artillery

Artillery noun - Large firearms (as cannon or rockets).

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Volley and artillery are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Volley" instead a noun "Artillery".

Nearby Word: artillerist

Volley noun - A rapid or overwhelming outpouring of many things at once.

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Artillery and volley are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Artillery" instead a noun "Volley".

Nearby Words: volleyed, volleying

heavy	heavy artillery	heavy volley
powerful	powerful artillery	powerful volley
large	large artillery	large volley
incoming	incoming artillery	incoming volley
Other adjectives: orbital, massed.

Squishy Wizard: The wizards break havok among enemy lines, but a volley of arrows or a lucky artillery shot kills them quite often.

Source: Videogame / Warhammer: Dark Omen
So it boils down to this, either rain down an volley of high-explosive shells on the enemy front line and risk getting killed by the enemy artillery or fire an shot or two and relocate do an completely different area unless you'd killed off the enemy artillery.

Source: Video Game / Armored Warfare
Arrow Cam: Thrill as your volley of arrows/artillery fire arcs into an enemy unit.

Source: Video Game / Total War

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