The Importance of Inaccuracy

He would still die, it would just take a bit longer. If it's going to be called artillery, I'd prefer it to function at least somewhat like artillery, which has an inherent amount of drift and inaccuracy in it's operation. If you want to hit the target every time, you use a catapult, or an SXX. This gives you additional tradeoffs you need to think about, and increases the overall strategy. Same with the gunships, I feel their intended role is crowd control and not hovering ball of death, but people are used to using them that way now...

artillery is not diffined by its inaccuracy but simply by throwing iron stones over long distances as they dont directly see their targets most of the time ...
missiles like the catapult are also considered a form of artillery they are simply more accurate through homing/tracking