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Property	Value
rdfs:label	Medusa (Siege Gun)
rdfs:comment	Besides its field artillery companies, the backbone of any siege regiment of the Imperial Guard are its heavy artillery companies. The heavy artillery pieces used by these companies are the big guns, deployed well back from the front lines to provide a sustained bombardment of the enemy forces during a major set-piece engagement. Imperial heavy artillery includes the Guard's workhorse, the Earthshaker Cannon, and the aging Medusa heavy siege gun. Both types of heavy artillery are capable of firing sustained bombardments, box barrages to isolate a battlefield from enemy reinforcements, harassing fire during an enemy advance, counter-battery fire to suppress enemy artillery and destructive fire at selected enemy units, all spotted for by artillery officers who serve in the dangerous role of
dcterms:subject	Imperium Weapons Imperial Vehicles Imperial Vehicles Imperial weapons Imperial Guard Imperium Imperial weapons Weapons Imperial Guard Artillery Artillery Imperial Technology Imperial Technology M M
abstract	Besides its field artillery companies, the backbone of any siege regiment of the Imperial Guard are its heavy artillery companies. The heavy artillery pieces used by these companies are the big guns, deployed well back from the front lines to provide a sustained bombardment of the enemy forces during a major set-piece engagement. Imperial heavy artillery includes the Guard's workhorse, the Earthshaker Cannon, and the aging Medusa heavy siege gun. Both types of heavy artillery are capable of firing sustained bombardments, box barrages to isolate a battlefield from enemy reinforcements, harassing fire during an enemy advance, counter-battery fire to suppress enemy artillery and destructive fire at selected enemy units, all spotted for by artillery officers who serve in the dangerous role of forward observers on the front lines. Siege regiments of the Imperial Guard are supported not only by their own heavy artillery companies but also by the overall army's bombardment corps. These are concentrations of heavy artillery pieces like the Earthshaker and the Medusa that back up the attacking regiments and are used to maintain sustained bombardments before the launch of major offensives against an enemy's entrenched, fortified positions.