Launches
Shells
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- One of the UEF Experimental buildings is a cheaper-and-faster factory that stores the units it makes and launches them across the map as artillery shells, whereupon they deploy at the target area.
Source: Video Game / Supreme Commander 2 -
Though against artillery shells it's somewhat 50-50, in Rolling Hot a Slammers artillery crew accidentally launches two anti-tank seeking shells at a battlefield where they're the only ones with tanks and even with advance warning they still lose one tank to friendly fire.
Source: Point Defenseless -
The Flak cannon launches shells like a standard grenade launcher in its secondary mode, but in its primary mode it explodes the shell within the weapon and launches its fragments out the barrel.
Source: Video Game / Unreal I
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