Howitzer

A new artillery style weapon added in the Moonshot Expansion update. This weapon is unlocked through the Munitions Plant and costs 1,000 metal and 9,000 energy. Its the most expensive to produce due to the storages, material and time required. As a tradeoff, the weapon has a slightly cheaper firing cost of 4,000 energy. Excessively good against Wood Spam and terrible at Metal. The shell can be also be destroyed in the air through shooting at it. This is also known for its very explosive radius upon destruction and even destroys surrounding bracing and metal.

A tactic using this explosive death of the weapon is the Howitzer Swing: using ropes to "swing" the platform the howitzer is sitting on and make it explode on the enemy fort or commonly to a teammate. [generally this cannot be used to hurt your enemy in most official maps]

Strategy
Building a howiter or Howy is a risk due to its cost and time to build, so it's generally an all or nothing gamble, in competitive play although going for this might be obvious, due to the lack of firing on your part, mostly relying on snipers and woodspam, so when the howy is built, you'll have to prepare to deal with AA [anti-air] weaponry, generally 3-4 gunners can take it down [depending on rng and distance].

The firebeam greatly compliments the howy due to the shell being immune to it, and spreading fire where it hit, also protecting it from AA, so coordinating with your team is crucial in making the howy work in 2v2s 3v3s and 4v4s, in 1v1s making howy and firebeam is generally a death sentence due to the commitment of both techs.

The howitzer is a compliment for the cannon, due to clearing woodspam, leaving the base with almost no defense, making for a deadly attack.