I have at least a two gun battery at every settlement.

Some settlements have up to six guns.

Depends on if i am feeling too lazy to attack a place myself, can just get artillery to clear it for me and then loot what remains.

If I knew where and where I couldn't fire it, I would use artillery alot more. Right now, I rarely use it.

I use it occasionally. Usually if it's like at a group and I can find some cover or at least be a place where I won't get hit by the blast.

I'm usually always an explosives expert so not really, no. I carry grenades and bombs that are more effective than an artillery attack. There is also that it feels like a gamble since I don't know if I'm in range or not. Maybe an indicator or the ability to turn an indicator on to tell you if you're in range of a nearby artillery strike is possible should be implemented.

I always used it, but it seems it has become bugged or something. Before it seemed I would get an almost seemingly endless volley. Now when I throw one I get only a few shots, none at all, or its so delayed after I'm sure its not coming and I move in, I'm suddenly in the middle of it. So I don't use it too much anymore.

If I build it at every settlement, will I have 100% map coverage?

I've used it in large groups but it takes so long for the shots I find I threw it in a group by the time shells started hitting they had moved plus started shooting when shells hit and they were all dead before shells stopped. Got to watch end of the fireworks though love big explosions of fallout

My Minuteman character used it extensively. My current character has had on contact with the MM so she doesn't have artillery at her disposal.

I believe you should have 100% coverage.

All that stuff adds weight and I like to keep my character as light as possible to pick up junk so I just end up dropping it into storage and completely forgetting about it. So, nope.. I didn't use any of that stuff. Probably would have been handy during the attack on Castle.

I found early on that Arty was more trouble than it was worth. It takes a lot of resources to build a decent arty battery at every settlement to get almost full map coverage. I rarely used it even when it was in range. There just were not enough situations where the enemy would stand still long enough for the arty to get to the target.

In my last few play throughs with new characters I have been using a mod that lets the arty from the Castle range out to the whole map. But even with that 5 gun battery with all that range I hardly use it.

Yes I do. Mostly because it's what I really do in the army??. Its really cool roleplaying a Forward Observer, mostly because I do it in real life.

The problem with artillery is the dumb smoke bomb targeting mechanic. Its range is half the distance of a normal grenade, and the entire salvo could take a long time to fire since the guns need to run through a slow animation to turn the gun in the correct direction. The range of the guns themselves are very short. realistically, one should be able to call a target within medium scope range, not this stupid smoke bomb that you toss 20 feet and then run like hell.

Yes, though I get frustrated when tent flaps shield the enemy from Exterminatus.

The enemy seems to know exactly where I am when the rounds start falling...