Princess is reasonably good at using artillery, up to 49.7 at least. But friendly artillery gets a little out of hand with the 'area denial' aspect as I can't get my own units in there to do things like pick up a downed pilot, finish off a downed Mech cleanly to ensure salvage, or preserve buildings to satisfy scenario conditions. At best I can try to remember to keep /kick 'ing the bot player before the artillery targeting phase.

To this end I would like to see a few commands added to the Princess repertoire specifically for handling friendly artillery.

[Princess name]: artillery: [ auto | halt | barrage: [hex] | volley: [hex] | single: [hex] ]

Offboard Princess: artillery: auto
This is the behavior as it is now - automatically calculate target hexes and fire at will. Princess always defaults to this when starting.

Offboard Princess: artillery: halt
Will not fire artillery until prompted with one of the other commands.

Offboard Princess: artillery: barrage 0808
This overrides the standard (auto) method of target hex generation with the specified hex, and fires all artillery at it until prompted otherwise.

Offboard Princess: artillery: volley 0815
This causes Princess to fire one round with each artillery piece at the specified hex. If it has multiple artillery, such a Naga with dual Arrow IV or a triple Thumper turret, it will fire each weapon at the same hex. In the following rounds it will not fire until prompted (effectively switching to 'halt' status). Ideally this would also have an optional integer to indicate a number of successive rounds to fire, but that may be a bit too complicated.

Offboard Princess: artillery: single 1020
This fires a single artillery weapon at the designated hex, chosen by best odds of hitting/least scatter distance followed by most standard damage. Ideally this would have an optional indicator for type of preferred round, such as "homing" or "illumination", but that may be a bit too complicated.