Does artillery really take that long to hit after a fire mission is called?
Unless it’s not mortar fire, yes. There’s time needed to transmit the details of your fire support request, it will need approval by the artillery commander, you will have to assign this to a certain artillery unit (keep in mind that most of them are busy with counter battery fire to suppress enemy artillery; one third of all available howitzers are busy firing, one third are moving to a new position to evade enemy counter battery fire, and the last third is setting up for a new task and refilling their onboard ammo stock). In extreme cases, the rounds themselves will be in the air for an additional 30 seconds.
