I think just about every war game about infantry would be boring if done realistically. People just really bend the rules. Fighting drug dealers, armed robbers, or terrorists would be as interesting as things get.
Heh, anyway from what I heard of real war stories, grizzled war vets aren't so scared of artillery. Catapults don't tear down walls in a few minutes, they take frigging days. Similarly for a lot of other artillery.. cannons (at least the pre-WW2 ones) don't rip holes in true navy vessels with one hit, they like kinda bruise and dent the surface. And guns don't shoot right through plate mail either. There are plenty of stories about a general standing somewhere I'd freak out at, like the bow of a battleship or some tower getting shot at, and bossing his men around. True story involved some cocky veteran general defying a younger general's order to tell everyone to retreat after taking heavy artillery fire, and actually winning the fight when the artillery got tired or something.. forgot the details.
Realistically, he could get like really bored and say that's a whatever model cannon they're shooting at us. You know, along with other bored conversation like "they're 3000 meters away from us" and "his wife is hot". And if he's really bored, don't put that in a book, for god's sake. Skip to an interesting part. That's why I stopped reading books; authors are just too happy to put in boring crap in the name of detail. If I wanted boring stuff, I'd read history books on past battles, at least it's true. If you want to give me boring stuff, at least make sure it's interesting, and not utter crap you made up.